ARA 1.3.0 has been released !

You can refer to GitHub repository for the changelog as well as the full list of changes since 1.2.

Here are some of the highlights in this new version:

Required python version

Before ARA 1.3, it was required to run the API server under at least python 3.6 and above.

We’ve removed the requirement on python 3.6 by replacing a few instances of python f-strings by a compatible string format.

This change will make it easier to run the API server on a wider range of operating systems which include python 3.5.

API improvements for searching, sorting and filtering

1.3 improves on the existing search functionality of the API and makes it possible to sort and filter the results of your search.

Let’s look at a few practical examples to demonstrate how this might be useful.

Pretend you’d like to search for playbooks that failed in the last 30 days and have them ordered with the most recent first, you could construct your query like so:

/api/v1/playbooks?started_after=2019-11-03T09:57:36&status=failed&order=-started

If you want to find out which Ansible tasks took the longest to run, you can sort by duration instead:

/api/v1/tasks?order=duration

Or if you want to see which hosts are failing the most tasks:

/api/v1/hosts?order=-failed

Playbook index search

Some of the improvements to the API for this release were implemented in the playbook index of the built-in interface:

We hope to bring similar functionality in the future for searching through plays, tasks, results and hosts.

Database pruning

Depending on your use case, you might not want to keep playbook reports in your database forever.

1.3 introduces a new command, ara-manage prune, which takes care of deleting playbooks and all of their resources if they are older than a specified amount of days.

For example, the ara-manage prune command could be set up to run in a cron to control the size of your database while keeping the amount of rows to a minimum for steady performance.

Want to try ARA ?

Have a look at the quickstart or read the installation and configuration documentation for more information.

Want to contribute, chat or need help ?

ARA could use your help and we can also help you get started. Please reach out !

The project community hangs out on IRC and Slack.