Running ansible through python via subprocess

One way to achieving this is using the ansible API which all information is listed here:

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/dev_guide/developing_api.html

You can also find a library that will do this for you.

As an alternative, you can use subprocess, a native library, and run ansible as any other command:

import subprocess
cmd = ["ansible-playbook", "-i", "inventory.ini", "playbook.yml"]
 process = subprocess.Popen(cmd,stdout=subprocess.PIPE) 
 while True: 
         output = str(process.stdout.readline(), encoding="utf-8") 
         if process.poll() is not None: 
             break 
         else: 
             print(output)

    In this case the idea is to print line by line from python. But it can be modified to any other application.

Here some references:

https://www.endpoint.com/blog/2015/01/28/getting-realtime-output-using-python
https://github.com/uehara1414/ansible-subprocess/blob/master/ansible_subprocess/main.py