Feature: allow to use the username from UI as value of environment variables

[jguay]

Related to

Web-Frontend (what users interact with), Ansible (task execution), Configuration

Impact

nice to have

Missing Feature

User john runs a terraform task that creates a VM and VM name should include name john-, we can use :

• Environment with variable called TF_VAR_semaphoreuser - var.semaphoreuser is accessible in terraform automatically - but environment does not belong to John it belongs to the project so this is not usable at scale
• Survey variable - every task need to have survey variable semaphoreuser asking user to fill its own username - there is nothing preventing to give any other value. Also it is tedious to ask semaphore user name at every task execution

Implementation

• ability for environment and have value set by UI
• example environment I need the value is username from GET /api/user

If the value of the variable is not resolved when running a task then - the variable should not exist at all (default empty value is not wanted - task failure is expected if variable does not resolve to username)

Design

No response

[winbornejw]

I have a use case for this too. I'm setting up a multi-user Ansible controller with both Semaphore and ARA

ARA has an env variable, ARA_RECORD_USER_NAME, to set the username it records.

I'd like a way to set this to the currently logged in user.

Could some amount of templating be added to Variable Groups to accomplish this? Something like this

[fiftin]

Hi @winbornejw it is interesting idea. I like it but with different implementation.