Workflow & Automation · Integration
Ansible
Add Ansible to your product for your customers, and give your AI agents governed access to it.
Embed an Ansible integration so your customers can launch job templates and read inventories, playbook runs, and job results from inside your product, with access scoped per tenant and every action audited. Automation runs change real infrastructure, so permissions are least-privilege and every launch is attributable. fastn handles each customer's credentials and API upkeep, so supporting another customer's Ansible Automation Platform is configuration rather than code.
In your product
Embedded for your customers. Per-tenant auth, no per-customer code, maintained by fastn.
Let customers read their job templates, projects, and inventories from inside your product.
Launch a job template with the right variables from your product and report the outcome back.
Read job status and output so users can see what a run did without leaving your product.
Trigger your product when a job finishes or fails so the next remediation step runs.
For your AI agents
Governed, audited access for the agents you build, through the MCP server.
An agent reads the last job run for a template and summarises what failed.
An agent launches an approved job template within governed permissions, with the launch audited.
An agent reacts to a failed job and gathers the host output needed to diagnose it.
Example prompt
List job templates whose last run failed and show the hosts that reported errors.
Set up Ansible in 4 steps
- 01Open the Ansible connector from your fastn dashboard.
- 02Have each customer authenticate their Ansible Automation Platform with least-privilege credentials.
- 03Map the job templates, inventories, and variables your product uses, then enable actions and triggers.
- 04Call them from your product, or expose them to an agent through the MCP server.
Why teams use the Ansible integration
What you get by embedding it with fastn instead of building it yourself.
- Ship an Ansible integration without building it. Your customers connect their own Ansible account inside your product and work their processes, runs and queues there, with no per-customer code on your side.
- Handle the part that actually costs time: runs are asynchronous and can fail long after they are accepted, so an outcome that never arrives must look different from one that succeeded. fastn owns the auth, token refresh, rate limits, pagination and breaking-change fixes, so an Ansible update is not your on-call problem.
- One integration serves your product and your agents. The same governed Ansible connection powers in-product features and gives AI agents scoped, audited access, so you start work in the automation platform your customers already run, and get the outcome back without wiring it twice.
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How do I add an Ansible integration to my product?
Enable the Ansible connector in your fastn dashboard, then let each customer authenticate their own Ansible account. fastn handles the OAuth flow, token storage and refresh per tenant, so there is no Ansible client code in your app and no per-customer branch in your codebase. Setup is 4 steps.
Do my customers each connect their own Ansible account?
Yes. Every connection is scoped to the individual customer, so each authorises their own Ansible account and only ever sees their own processes, runs and queues. That per-tenant isolation is the point of an embedded integration: you support the long tail of customer setups without maintaining an integration per customer.
Can AI agents use this Ansible integration?
Yes. The same connection is exposed to your agents through the fastn MCP gateway, with permissions scoped per tenant and every call audited. An agent reads the last job run for a template and summarises what failed.
Who maintains the Ansible integration?
fastn does. When Ansible changes an endpoint, deprecates a field or alters its auth, the fix lands in the connector rather than in your backlog, and your customers' connections keep working.
Can my product start an Ansible run and read its outcome?
Yes. Your product can trigger a process in the customer's own Ansible account, pass it input, and take the result back as an event rather than polling for it.
What happens when an Ansible run is slow or fails?
The failure surfaces with its error rather than as a silent timeout, and the run keeps its own identifier so a retry can be matched to the original. That matters more here than in most integrations, because a run that half-completed is not the same as one that never started.
What can I build with the Ansible integration?
A common starting point: read their job templates, projects, and inventories from inside your product. Teams also use it for the other use cases listed above, and expose it to agents for governed reads and writes.
How much does the Ansible integration cost?
It is included. Pricing is based on connected accounts, not on how many connectors you enable, so adding Ansible does not change your per-connector cost. You can start free with 3 connected accounts.
Add Ansible to your product
Start free with 3 connected accounts. No sales call required, and no per-customer integration code.