Installing Ansible Tower/AWX

Introduction

Ansible Tower/AWX is a web-based solution for managing Ansible automation. It provides a user interface, REST API, and task engine to manage and control Ansible deployments.

Prerequisites

• Operating System: CentOS/RHEL 7 or 8, Ubuntu 18.04 or 20.04
• Docker installed
• PostgreSQL database (for Tower) or Redis (for AWX)
• Python 3 and pip installed

Installation Steps

1. Update the system packages:

sudo yum update -y  # For CentOS/RHEL
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y  # For Ubuntu

2. Install Docker:

sudo yum install -y yum-utils
sudo yum-config-manager --add-repo https://download.docker.com/linux/centos/docker-ce.repo
sudo yum install -y docker-ce
sudo systemctl start docker
sudo systemctl enable docker

3. Download and install Ansible AWX:

git clone https://github.com/ansible/awx.git
cd awx/installer
ansible-playbook -i inventory install.yml

Configuration

After installation, you need to configure AWX by setting up the admin user:

docker exec -it awx_task bash
awx-manage createsuperuser

Follow the prompts to create an admin user.

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