With Ops Center Automator Ansible modules, you can provision and manage the storage in your infrastructure. Ops Center Automator users can extend their automation workflow using core modules from the Ansible playbook with Ops Center Automator service templates.
For example, an Ansible user can:
- Run Automator service tasks sequentially before and after starting the Ansible core module from the playbooks.
- Run multiple Automator service tasks sequentially from the playbooks.
For detailed information on Ansible, see the Ansible documentation.
Idempotency
One of the benefits of integrating Ops Center Automator with Ansible modules is that Ansible playbook gives task-level idempotency. As it relates to running Automator services, idempotency means that the playbook ensures that the same task is not run multiple times. If Ansible identifies that the same task (identified by task name) is running more than one time, it sends the initial result instead of running the task again.
For more information, see the Ansible documentation.