tower-job: run an Ansible Tower job via the command-line, and get all the output you would from the Tower console.

tower-job

#!/bin/bash

# tower-job
# https://gist.github.com/philcryer/fdce90d0b06517a49ff2fdba41b579df

# Variables
tower_template_id=574

# Directions
#
# install tower-cli
#   sudo pip install tower-cli
#
# put this file in a root of your project
#   {{ project_root }}/tower-job
#
# create a file ~/.tower-cli.cfg with contents:
#
#   [general]
#   host = fqdn.yourhost.com
#   username = your-username
#   password = ssssshhhhhhhh
#
# add variables from your tower survey to a vars file. we'll use group_vars/tower-job.yml
#   ---
#   survey_env: "DEV"
#   survey_version: "2.0"
#   survey_mychart_customer: "bob"
#
# define your job template ID # in variables above
#   job_template_id=574
#
# make this file executable
#   chmod 755 tower-job
#
# then run it
#   ./tower-job

set -e

if [ ! -d 'group_vars' ]; then
    echo "No group_vars found, run this out of root of project"; exit 1
fi

tower-cli job launch --job-template=$tower_template_id --extra-vars="@group_vars/tower-job.yml" | tee tower-job.pid
job_id=$(cat tower-job.pid | tail -n2 | head -n1 | awk '{print $1}')
rm tower-job.pid
while [ $(tower-cli job list --status=running | grep $job_id | wc -l) -lt '1' ]; do
    echo -n "-"; sleep 5;
done;

tower-cli job monitor $job_id

exit 0