# Ansible-Commander development begins **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Created:** [March 16, 2013, 2:55am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-commander-development-begins/12514 "2013-03-16T02:55:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan2](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan2)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2013, 2:55am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-commander-development-begins/12514/1 "2013-03-16T02:55:20Z")
Hi everyone, I believe in developing software out in the open, so I've pushed what is an early start to Ansible-Commander. For those that were not around several months ago, the idea is Ansible-Commander is a REST API, database logging system, and background execution system -- with a CLI and UI client -- for Ansible. It's a big deal. It will make ansible easer to use for some, more accessible for teams, and easier to analyze statistics and get reports out of it. If you are familiar with any enterprise management software it won't be that foreign -- it should in fact be rather obvious. It's just something I needed a company to enable me the time to do properly! When I last started commander several months ago (6?) I was still developing Ansible as a side project and was doing some things for "fun", and was exploring some NoSQL options, micro frameworks, and other things like that. Ansible-Commander is more conservative now, and this actually lets us develop it faster. It's based on Django, tastypie (a great Django REST library), South (for migrations) and Celery (for a task engine). Our goal here is to keep it super super easy to work on (hopefully like Ansible, if not more so). For developers who wish to dive in, you will see some early things. - There's a start of a database schema. - Tastypie and South are integrated and there are makefiles for launching common tasks. - There's a basic Ansible-playbook for bootstrapping the codebase. - There is the start of a Python CLI client (very early) using Requests that demonstrates POSTs to the REST layer using Basic Auth. - Django admin is integrated so you can go to [http://whatever/admin](http://whatever/admin) and update objects. Now, I don't really recommend anyone use this yet -- it doesn't really do much yet that anyone would want, authentication is not wired up, there is no corresponding inventory or logging plugin or way to spawn a job yet. It's super early -- so I'm not even really even taking tickets and pull requests yet. All these things are coming, and you'll be able to watch. However, I wanted everybody to see what was there, in case they wanted to get familiar with things, and I'll post updates every week or so as we start to get things more evolved. Commander development starts here! Let me know if you have questions. [https://github.com/ansible/ansible-commander](https://github.com/ansible/ansible-commander) ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f14d63/32.png) [@Jonathan1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Jonathan1)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2013, 3:39am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-commander-development-begins/12514/2 "2013-03-16T03:39:22Z")
Three cheers for this! Very excited to watch this progress, especially inventory APIs. ---
**Author:** ![Lester\_Wade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/97f17d/32.png) [@Lester\_Wade](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Lester_Wade)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2013, 12:35pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-commander-development-begins/12514/3 "2013-03-17T12:35:07Z")
This is great but does it have cows? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan2](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan2)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2013, 1:10pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-commander-development-begins/12514/4 "2013-03-17T13:10:16Z")
I may have to work in an easter egg somewhere 🙂