Create gateway services

Itential Automation Gateway (IAG) provides a powerful framework for transforming your existing automation content into reusable services that can be orchestrated across your organization. By importing automation content from Git repositories, IAG packages your scripts, playbooks, and infrastructure-as-code into standardized services that integrate seamlessly with the Itential Platform.

Supported service types

Ansible playbooks
Python scripts
OpenTofu plans

How it works

Repository integration: IAG connects to your Git repositories containing automation content
Service creation: Define services that reference specific automation assets
Gateway Manager registration: Services are automatically discovered and advertised to the Itential Platform
Workflow execution: Itential Platform can invoke these services as part of larger automation workflows

Create a gateway service

Use the iagctl create service command to create gateway services. For more information, see iagctl create service in the command reference.

Examples

The following examples create gateway services that reference automation assets configured in a repository called gateway-resources.

The gateway-resources repository has the following structure:

├── README.md
├── ansibleplaybooks
│   ├── hello-world.yml
│   ├── requirements.txt
│   └── requirements.yml
├── pythonscripts
│   ├── main.py
│   └── requirements.txt
└── opentofuplans
    └── main.tf

Ansible

Python

OpenTofu

Use iagctl create service ansible-playbook to create an Ansible Playbook service.

The following example creates an Ansible playbook service called simple-ansible.

$ iagctl create service ansible-playbook simple-ansible --repository gateway-resources --working-dir ansibleplaybooks --playbook hello-world.yml

For more information, see iagctl create service ansible-playbook in the command reference.