Ansible Playbook Grapher: Difference between revisions

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If you use Ansible for automation, then you should be interested in a tool called [https://github.com/haidaraM/ansible-playbook-grapher Ansible Playbook Grapher] which allows you to visualize the workflow of your playbooks.

If you use Ansible for automation, then you should be interested in a tool called [https://github.com/haidaraM/ansible-playbook-grapher '''Ansible Playbook Grapher'''] which allows you to visualize the workflow of your playbooks.

I ran into [https://github.com/freephile/meza/issues/63 a little trouble getting it to work initially], but eventually was able to output graphs for Meza.

Although you can output [[Mermaid]] graphs ([[Ansible Playbook Grapher with Mermaid|see example]]) in lieu of the default [[SVG]], the SVG format is richer, more functional and can handle large complex graphs more easily.

[[File:Ansible-playbook-grapher illustration of meza site playbook.svg|thumb]]

== Usage ==

The way to use '''ansible-playbook-grapher''' is to setup a [[Python_deployments#Basic_PIP_and_Virtual_Environments|Python Virtual Environment]], so that you can install '''apg'''. Once it is installed, you can use it on a checkout of [[Meza]] by changing into the 'config' directory and invoking the script with optional arguments <code>ansible-playbook-grapher --include-role-tasks ../src/playbooks/site.yml</code>

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-If you use Ansible for automation, then you should be interested in a tool called [https://github.com/haidaraM/ansible-playbook-grapher Ansible Playbook Grapher] which allows you to visualize the workflow of your playbooks.
+If you use Ansible for automation, then you should be interested in a tool called [https://github.com/haidaraM/ansible-playbook-grapher '''Ansible Playbook Grapher'''] which allows you to visualize the workflow of your playbooks.
 I ran into [https://github.com/freephile/meza/issues/63 a little trouble getting it to work initially], but eventually was able to output graphs for Meza.
+Although you can output [[Mermaid]] graphs ([[Ansible Playbook Grapher with Mermaid|see example]]) in lieu of the default [[SVG]], the SVG format is richer, more functional and can handle large complex graphs more easily.
 [[File:Ansible-playbook-grapher illustration of meza site playbook.svg|thumb]]
 == Usage ==
 The way to use '''ansible-playbook-grapher''' is to setup a [[Python_deployments#Basic_PIP_and_Virtual_Environments|Python Virtual Environment]], so that you can install '''apg'''. Once it is installed, you can use it on a checkout of [[Meza]] by changing into the 'config' directory and invoking the script with optional arguments <code>ansible-playbook-grapher --include-role-tasks ../src/playbooks/site.yml</code>