How to return information (facts) set within the play job to the AWX/Ansible Tower Api Caller?

Question

What if you need to return data to the caller/launcher of an AWX job via API?

In your playbook you can set facts with:

  - name: Set the company id
    set_fact:
      tenant_id: "{{ tenant.json.id }}"

How could I access the tenant id from the api after calling the job?

Answer 1

You can use the cacheable option of set_fact in your playbook/role. On the AWX side, if you enable fact caching on your inventory, the facts you have marked with "cacheable: yes" will be available as facts for the host via the AWX hosts API (hosts/{id}/ansible_facts).

Answer 2

On the AWX release I am using 11.0, it cannot be done as far as I know.

The best work around would be to explicitly push that data somewhere within the play.