Today I spent a good few hours trying to get the Geerling Guy AWX role to work. AWX is the open source, free version of Ansible Tower. Suffice to say, the combination of dependencies is sufficiently broken to be (currently) useless. Here’s the fix…
However, I have put together a handy playbook which does work for Amazon AMIs (specifically, I used the 2018.03.0 AMI).
Here’s the playbook (latest version will always be on GitHub):
---
- name: Install AWX
hosts: awx
become: yes
vars:
- tmpdir: "/tmp/ansible"
tasks:
- name: Update yum
yum:
name: '*'
state: latest
- name: Install Ansible
pip:
name: ansible
state: latest
- name: Install Repositories
yum:
name: "{{ item }}"
loop:
- git
- docker
- name: Start Docker
service:
name: docker
state: started
- name: Clone awx
git:
repo: 'https://github.com/ansible/awx.git'
dest: "{{ tmpdir }}"
clone: yes
- name: Install Docker Compose
pip:
name: docker-compose
state: latest
- name: Install AWX
command: /usr/local/bin/ansible-playbook -i {{ tmpdir }}/installer/inventory {{ tmpdir }}/installer/install.yml
AWX runs on port 80. The login is admin / password.
If you have any questions, comments or suggestions. Please contact me or raise a GitHub issue.