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This project contains the configuration of an Ansible AWX Execution Environment container image with awx-ee used libraries. That file has the following format:. In this example, awx-ee, collection1 and collection2 must of course be replaced by one of the values listed below.

It will live during the runtime and probably be deleted after the run has finished. The Ansible project provides those container images for us. They are regularly updated and build, you can follow the activities on the awx-ee project here. To learn more about AWX and how to get it running on Kubernetes, check out my blog article here only german. So why you want to create your own EE image if Ansible provides this to us? For me, there are two reasons.

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This repository will be used as project on AWX and we will describe how to configure Tower for the following topics:. All the resources used in this post are available in the following repository. If you want to see how to build your inventory and all related variables, it is recommended to read following documentation:. This guide describe how to install and configure AWX to run Arista AVD ansible collection using official approach as per AWX repository and requires to have a Kubernetes cluster available to install awx operator. Full step by step is available on AWX Operator repository. All the following steps will be executed in this repository as it provides both ansible content and AWX deployment manifest.

Awx-ee

This repository contains building instructions for a self-build AWX execution environment. To find detailed instructions and information about why to use your own build EE might be a good idea, you can find a blog article of me here. To build this execution environment image by yourself you can also use the image that is linked to this repository , follow the steps below. You need to have ansible-builder installed on your building machine. You can do so by the following command:.

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You also need docker or podman running on your machine as well as Python installed. Dismiss alert. General : community. By this done, you need to know of four files the ansible-builder will need to get you an execution environment image. Pulling the image. History 36 Commits. This file represents the Ansible collections you want to build into your image. That file has the following format:. In case of using a version tag, this is probably not needed. You can provide custom commands that should run during the build process for instance. Some modules also need Python libraries to be installed which might not be part of the default image. This is a common misconfiguration, remember to make sure your job templates are using the correct execution environment. Depending on your needs, the following collections are supported and can be added to the above file:.

I wanted to refresh that configuration since the deployment model has switched.

This is the starting point for ansible-builder. Your email address will not be published. Checking my Kubernetes cluster, I could see, that the spun up container pulls the correct image and runs the job, using my execution environment. Packages 0 No packages published. Some modules also need Python libraries to be installed which might not be part of the default image. You can do it simply by issuing the following command:. General : community. Go to file. Which brings the risk, that there are breaking changes in a nightly build which already happened several times to me. Latest commit History 36 Commits. Insert your detailed information on the execution environment. Depending on your needs, the following collections are supported and can be added to the above file:. Terraform : community. In this example, collection1 and collection2 must of course be replaced by one of the values listed below. Dismiss alert.