Step by Step installation of Ansible Tower opensource version AWX

Hello Guys, In this post, I would like to experiment with the installation of AWX on a new variety of Linux that is Alpine Linux.

Prerequisites

• Here I will go with the Alpine Linux which is the default Operating System on Play with  Docker 
• alternatively, You must have at least 3 boxes on either vagrant  or Any cloud instances (AWS) 1 Ansible engine remaining 2 for remote nodes
• AWX is GUI/web tool which is currently broken down to AWX-operator and AWX Task

The AWX up to 18 version installations used docker based environments, where it uses the following Docker images from the Docker hub

1. Postgress SQL
2. Rabbit MQ
3. MemCache

Steps to install AWX

1. Update the repo on the Alpine Linux

apk update

2. Installing with apk package manager 'add' subcommand will do the installation.

apk add ansible

This will be installing Ansible on Alpine Linux.

Ansible installation on Play with Docker (PWD) instance

 

3. Validate the ansible installation using the version option.

ansible --version

This will be confirming that installing Ansible on the Alpine Linux is confirmed. 

4. Get the git hub hosted latest version or specific version of AWX, 

  git clone -b 17.1.0 https://github.com/ansible/awx.git
  

This will be installing Ansible on the Alpine Linux.

git clone awx 17.1.0 

Step 5: Generate secret_key using openssl command.

openssl rand -base64 30 

Step 6: The configure for the awx are as follows:

admin_password=p@ssw0rd123
secret_key=5r9L1GqfR/GjJh5+JyBBQLd5bv/7B8/BsNF3z0N6
pg_database=postgres
pg_password=p@ssw0rd123
awx_alternate_dns_servers="8.8.8.8,8.8.4.4"
postgres_data_dir="/var/lib/awx/pgdocker"
docker_compose_dir="/var/lib/awx/awxcompose"
project_data_dir="/var/lib/awx/projects"

Step 7: Now you can run the ansible-playbook execution with the 

ansible-playbook -i ~/awx/installer/inventory ~/awx/installer/install.yml -v

Execution might take several minutes, at the end you can see the following  

Installing AWX using Ansible playbook Kompleted!!!

Step 8: Login to the Ansible AWX console with the following

AWX username: admin

Ansible AWX password: {someSTR0NGpassword}

AWX Login page

The AWX Dashboard shows the Hosts, inventory, Jobs look like this:

Step 9: Select Templates in the left pane, then you can see the Demo Job template - Launch the template using rocket icon opposite to it.

AWX Job Template

Step 10: AWX Job executed then, it output window shows msg as   - Hello World!

That is all for now in this post you can check other Ansible related posts links from right side of this blog!

HAPPY AWX automation!!

Reference

https://github.com/ansible/awx/releases