Trigger AWX job templates through REST APIs

Version updated for https://github.com/bilalahmad99/github-action-trigger-awx to version v2.1.0.

  • This action is used across all versions by 2 repositories.

Action Type

This is a Node action using Node version 20.

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Action Summary

This GitHub Action enables users to trigger job or workflow templates on Ansible Tower/AWX directly from their GitHub workflows, automating the integration between CI/CD pipelines and Ansible-based automation tasks. It solves the problem of manually initiating Ansible Tower/AWX jobs by providing streamlined API-based interactions, supporting both token-based and basic authentication methods. Key capabilities include passing extra variables to templates, retrying API requests, and parsing outputs from job runs.

What’s Changed

New Features

  • 🔐 OAuth2 token authentication support (preferred method)
  • ✅ Backward compatible with username/password authentication

Improvements

  • Enhanced authentication validation
  • Better secret masking for sensitive values
  • Improved logging with core.info() and core.warning()
  • Refactored code structure for better maintainability
  • Comprehensive test coverage

Documentation

  • Updated README with authentication examples
  • Added workflow template example