By default, the Ansible Tower command line tool is not installed. These examples are based on Linux. First, install pip. Then, install the command line interface.

pip install ansible-tower-cli

The tower-cli command is then used to issue commands. For example, to list the tower-cli version.

~]$ tower-cli --version
Tower CLI 3.3.9

For example, the following probably are configs you probably want to make.

tower-cli config username your_username
tower-cli config password your_password
tower-cli config host https://tower.example.com
tower-cli config verify_ssl false

Which should then be stored in the hidden tower_cli.cfg file.

~]$ cat /home/john.doe/.tower_cli.cfg 
[general]
username = john.doe
password = itsasecret
host = https://tower.example.com
verify_ssl = false

Assuming at least one Job Template has been created in Tower, the job_template list command should return the Job Templates.

~]$ tower-cli job_template list
===== ====================== ========= ======= ===========
 id   name                  inventory project playbook             
==== ====================== ========= ======= ===========
 991 my job template        123       456     example.yml