Enable Inventory, Limit, Tags Overrides in Scheduled Workflow and Job Template Runs

[walterrowe]

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Feature type

New Feature

Feature Summary

I want to define a workflow or job template ONCE. I want to create numerous scheduled runs of that workflow. In each schedule definition I want to choose the inventory, limit, tags values for that scheduled run.

I want schedule definitions to permit overriding the inventory, limits, tags of a workflow or job template.

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Steps to reproduce

Consider popular operational workflows such as server patching or compliance checking. I want to define each of these workflows once and run them at different times against different subsets of my inventory.

Today I have to clone the workflow template, associate each clone with a different subset of the inventory, and define a schedule(s) for each cloned instance of the workflow.

Current results

This is terribly inefficient.

• Updates to steps in a workflow or job template require updating every cloned instance of the workflow. This is tedious and overly laborious, and can lead to differences between instances of the workflow if a given workflow update is not applied to all cloned instances.
• The template definition listing is unnecessarily polluted with numerous copies of the same workflow and/or job template definition.
• If I want to run the same workflow or job against a new subset of systems, I have to clone it and change the associated inventory or limits on the cloned copy which further exacerbates the first two bullets.

Sugested feature result

I want to define a workflow or job template ONCE. I want to create numerous scheduled runs of that workflow. In each schedule definition I want to choose the inventory and limit values for that scheduled run.

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