The Cisco Panoptica Ansible plugin works with Ansible to identify pod template workload that you are deploying to your Kubernetes clusters.

Supported platforms

Install the plugin

On the Panoptica console, create a user with the Service role. This user will be used by plugin. Copy the value of the Access Token; it will be used by the plugin (see below).
Navigate to the CI/CD page, and select the PLUGINS tab. Scroll down to the CD PLUGINS section, and select Ansible.
Download the plugin (portshift.py)using the link on the page.
Copy the plugin to the Anisble module directory.
Run the command

ansible-doc -t module <module directory>/portshift.py

The Panoptica plugin is included as an action in an Ansible playbook file.Its purpose is to create a Panoptica app for an application.

The Panoptica segment is added as follows:

These attributes can be included, optionally, for the Panoptica segment:

Name	Description	Required
executable	The directory of the executable	Yes
name	The name of the executable (in Panoptica)	Yes
url	the url of the Panoptica console	No
access_key	the access key of the service. If not included, the value will be taken from environment variable PORTSHIFT_ACCESS_KEY	No
secret_key	the secret key of the service. If not included, value will be taken from environment variable PORTSHIFT_SECRET_KEY	No
executablePath	the directory of the executable	No
processName	the process name	No
args	command line arguments of the executable	No
cwd	working directory of the executable	No
type	the app type	No
labels	a hash/dictionary of labels to add to the new app; form: '{"key":"value"}' and '{"key":"value","key":"value"}'	No