I’m currently in the process of evaluating AWX for managing our landscape. I’m particularly thrilled by the concept of remote execution nodes that connect to the backend via hop nodes. That works fine so far. However, there’s a catch in our environment: I need to run receptor and ansible-runner in …

IIRC, there’s no magical way to run “podman-in-docker” even though they are (mostly) interchangeable tools. Would you run “docker-in-docker” or “podman-in-podman”? You can’t run containers inside other containers. While you can spawn containers from inside another container, they are technically sti…

I’ve done this (download the bundle and install it using ansible). However, it is designed to be run against a physical or virtual machine. The platform I need to place an execution node at doesn’t allow for VMs, instead I’m bound to containers. I have no access to the host, but I’m free to design c…

What platform are you trying to run the containers in? I haven’t tried it, but it might be possible to use the community.docker.docker connection plugin to point your install bundle’s inventory to a rootful container. Then when you run the playbook, it’ll configure the running container to meet re…

Platform is proprietary platform. Host OS is Ubuntu, with docker containers on it. Podman works within docker containers ( https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/podman-inside-container ), and I’ve just tested successfully docker run --rm -ti \ --security-opt seccomp=unconfined \ --security-opt label=disab…

I’m looking at that blog post and am unsurprised by all of the hullabaloo it took to make podman work nested under other podman/docker containers. (I actually have a use-case if this can enable podman builds in openshift) Anyways, I wish you luck. From what I can tell on my own Execution Node, rec…

It works using this simple proof-of-concept approach: FROM quay.io/podman/stable RUN yum install -y python3-ansible-runner ansible slirp4netns RUN curl -L https://github.com/ansible/receptor/releases/download/v1.4.8/receptor_1.4.8_linux_amd64.tar.gz | tar xvzf - -C /usr/bin # directory has recep…

@nak @Denney-tech Hi, this is technically possible. In fact there was a PR to support containerlized installation through ansible.receptor collection, and I (and some maintainers) had confirmed that everything works as expected: https://github.com/ansible/receptor-collection/pull/69 Sadly this P…

Thanks @kurokobo ! @nak you can install that PR directly with ansible-galaxy collection install git+https://github.com/zkayyali812/receptor-collection.git,zk/containerized-receptor-deploy or with requirements.yml file: --- collections: - name: https://github.com/zkayyali812/receptor-collection.g…

I know this is a very very old thread, but has anyone make it work and has some kind of documentation to be shared? I’m pretty interested into testing this using a Docker container.

Are containerized Remote Execution Nodes possible?

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Denney-tech (Caleb Denney) July 26, 2024, 9:03pm 6

You could also check out this guide to ansible-runner and receptor. I’m not sure how much it will help, since it doesn’t specifically go over how AWX uses it other than a small mention.

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