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## [How do you upgrade packages for AAP?](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-do-you-upgrade-packages-for-aap/44414)

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**Author:** [@shanemhartley](https://forum.ansible.com/u/shanemhartley)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [September 4, 2025, 12:58pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-do-you-upgrade-packages-for-aap/44414 "2025-09-04T12:58:34Z")

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Say or example, you needed to upgrade the postgresql version from 15.10 to 15.14. How would you do that in the new containerized version of Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 version?

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## [AnsiballZ/PowerShell ParseError when using win\_scheduled\_task](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansiballz-powershell-parseerror-when-using-win-scheduled-task/44375)

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**Author:** [@dustin\_k](https://forum.ansible.com/u/dustin_k)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [September 4, 2025, 3:42am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansiballz-powershell-parseerror-when-using-win-scheduled-task/44375 "2025-09-04T03:42:04Z")

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Hello, I’m attempting to create a scheduled task using win\_scheduled\_task but getting a ParseError. It looks like in order to execute the ansible task, AnsiballZ generates a Powershell script, but when trying to execute…

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## [Separate ansible logs for distinct target nodes](https://forum.ansible.com/t/separate-ansible-logs-for-distinct-target-nodes/44406)

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**Author:** [@mtwest](https://forum.ansible.com/u/mtwest)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [September 3, 2025, 9:48pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/separate-ansible-logs-for-distinct-target-nodes/44406 "2025-09-03T21:48:30Z")

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OS\_Version: RHEL9.6\_Plow python\_version: 3.12.9 ansible-core: 2.18.6 It seems that the structure of ansible.cfg, particular as it relates to logging has changed markedly in the last few years, and I am trying to an up-t…

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## [Ansible-test not loading collections from requirements.yml](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-test-not-loading-collections-from-requirements-yml/39431)

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**Author:** [@branic](https://forum.ansible.com/u/branic)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [September 3, 2025, 7:31pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-test-not-loading-collections-from-requirements-yml/39431 "2025-09-03T19:31:33Z")

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I’m attempting to run the integration tests for the ec2\_vpc\_nacl moudule of the amazon.aws collection and I’m running into an issue where the community.general collection is not installed in the container. The command I…

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## [Community.general.systemd\_info: Scopes](https://forum.ansible.com/t/community-general-systemd-info-scopes/44413)

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**Author:** [@paulcalabro](https://forum.ansible.com/u/paulcalabro)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [September 3, 2025, 2:46pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/community-general-systemd-info-scopes/44413 "2025-09-03T14:46:00Z")

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It appears that the community.general.systemd\_info module does not support the user scope. Is this correct? If so, are there any workarounds? Are these the correct files that would need to be updated to add support for …

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## [Ansible 2.19 template change](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-2-19-template-change/44336)

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**Author:** [@k-cerman-qdt](https://forum.ansible.com/u/k-cerman-qdt)\
**Replies:** 12\
**Last updated:** [September 3, 2025, 8:04am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-2-19-template-change/44336 "2025-09-03T08:04:16Z")

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Hi, I upgraded to ansible 2.19.0 and start issuing lazy templating error. Current task - name: Setting conf file location ansible.builtin.set\_fact: \_autoConfFile: "{{ tmpDir }}/silent\_installation\_au…

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## [Lost secret key](https://forum.ansible.com/t/lost-secret-key/44305)

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**Author:** [@dgr](https://forum.ansible.com/u/dgr)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [September 3, 2025, 7:41am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/lost-secret-key/44305 "2025-09-03T07:41:03Z")

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We’ve had an unfortunate event where our AWX environment was moved from one EKS cluster to another and the secret key was stored in the (old) EKS cluster and not in an external secrets manager. To make this worse, the t…

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## [Building Custom AWX EE image](https://forum.ansible.com/t/building-custom-awx-ee-image/44389)

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**Author:** [@mani3887](https://forum.ansible.com/u/mani3887)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [September 2, 2025, 6:37pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/building-custom-awx-ee-image/44389 "2025-09-02T18:37:06Z")

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Hi Team, How do we build custom execution environments with ansible-builder v3 when Galaxy collections include loose dependencies like ansible-pylibssh\>=0.2.0? Pip is always invoked with --require-hashes, which rejects …

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## [AWX - Can not sync Inventory from Project Source](https://forum.ansible.com/t/awx-can-not-sync-inventory-from-project-source/6827)

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**Author:** [@dkoci](https://forum.ansible.com/u/dkoci)\
**Replies:** 9\
**Last updated:** [September 2, 2025, 3:56pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/awx-can-not-sync-inventory-from-project-source/6827 "2025-09-02T15:56:24Z")

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Hi. In AWX, I would like to create an inventory from the project source. When I try to sync, I get an error: ERROR! Attempting to decrypt but no vault secrets found The inventory file is not encrypted with Ansible V…

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## [\`!vault\` encrypted strings no longer decrypting through \`to\_yaml\` after 2.19 upgrade](https://forum.ansible.com/t/vault-encrypted-strings-no-longer-decrypting-through-to-yaml-after-2-19-upgrade/44321)

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**Author:** [@BrainStone](https://forum.ansible.com/u/BrainStone)\
**Replies:** 25\
**Last updated:** [September 2, 2025, 2:47pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/vault-encrypted-strings-no-longer-decrypting-through-to-yaml-after-2-19-upgrade/44321 "2025-09-02T14:47:50Z")

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Hello! I’ve been making extensive use of vault encrypted strings like this test: !vault | $ANSIBLE\_VAULT;1.1;AES256 32313565333766366161623238333866356334363961326362336537666336643564383363316664 …

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## [Ansible-builder failing](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-builder-failing/44380)

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**Author:** [@Fracture7144](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Fracture7144)\
**Replies:** 12\
**Last updated:** [September 2, 2025, 2:26pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-builder-failing/44380 "2025-09-02T14:26:12Z")

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I am trying to create a EE using ansible-builder for my AAP environment. Here is the error i’m getting: \[user@ansible01 example\_server\_team\_ee\]$ ansible-builder build -v 3 --no-cache -t localhost/example\_server\_team\_e…

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## [Filter ansible\_devices to get the first disk without partitions](https://forum.ansible.com/t/filter-ansible-devices-to-get-the-first-disk-without-partitions/44399)

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**Author:** [@stemid](https://forum.ansible.com/u/stemid)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [September 1, 2025, 8:08pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/filter-ansible-devices-to-get-the-first-disk-without-partitions/44399 "2025-09-01T20:08:46Z")

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My goal is to get the first disk in ansible\_devices without any partitions, to format it. Here is the output of ansible -m setup -a filter=ansible\_devices all, so in this case it’s sdb but it’s not always sdb. "ans…

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## [Ansible script execution failed - module failure](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-script-execution-failed-module-failure/44401)

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**Author:** [@Nagoor\_Meeran](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Nagoor_Meeran)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [September 1, 2025, 4:36pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-script-execution-failed-module-failure/44401 "2025-09-01T16:36:52Z")

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DEPRECATION WARNING): Distribution zhel 9.6 on host 10.47.126.xxx should use /usr/libexec/platform-python, but is using /usr/bin/python for backward compatibility with prior Ansible releases. A future Ansible release wil…

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## [Migrating AWX deployment to another cluster (k8s)](https://forum.ansible.com/t/migrating-awx-deployment-to-another-cluster-k8s/44400)

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**Author:** [@perezcab](https://forum.ansible.com/u/perezcab)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [September 1, 2025, 4:36pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/migrating-awx-deployment-to-another-cluster-k8s/44400 "2025-09-01T16:36:42Z")

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Intro We migrated AWX between Kubernetes clusters without using the AWX Operator’s AWXBackup/AWXRestore and without DB superuser privileges. This path relies on a manual pg\_dump / pg\_restore and preserving the original S…

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## [Ansible to run the tasks in sequence ](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-to-run-the-tasks-in-sequence/44385)

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**Author:** [@sai\_amulya](https://forum.ansible.com/u/sai_amulya)\
**Replies:** 10\
**Last updated:** [August 31, 2025, 7:32pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-to-run-the-tasks-in-sequence/44385 "2025-08-31T19:32:36Z")

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Hi All, I am writing to build a code with Ansible to run specify tasks on one hosts and another specify tasks on another host in a sequence manner. Here is the use-case: Role1-- \> needs to be executed on first host whi…

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## [Is the aiohttp Package Necessary with the vmware.vmware Collection?](https://forum.ansible.com/t/is-the-aiohttp-package-necessary-with-the-vmware-vmware-collection/44392)

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**Author:** [@StefanSchnell](https://forum.ansible.com/u/StefanSchnell)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [August 31, 2025, 4:00am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/is-the-aiohttp-package-necessary-with-the-vmware-vmware-collection/44392 "2025-08-31T04:00:16Z")

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Hello Community, :waving\_hand: I am new at this space and this is my first post here. Also I am new at Ansible, I know a little bit but I don’t have experience. Now I have a tiny question: The collection vmware.vmwar…

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## [Ansible WinRM connection to Windows machines hangs often](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-winrm-connection-to-windows-machines-hangs-often/44387)

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**Author:** [@johnny91](https://forum.ansible.com/u/johnny91)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [August 30, 2025, 11:58am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-winrm-connection-to-windows-machines-hangs-often/44387 "2025-08-30T11:58:10Z")

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Hi! I have some Windows machines set up on virt-manager on Ubuntu and they work great to login to etc. But when I run ansible against it to install things, create an AD domain etc, sometimes ansible does not succeed in …

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## [Parse error when publishing to Galaxy](https://forum.ansible.com/t/parse-error-when-publishing-to-galaxy/44386)

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**Author:** [@stemid](https://forum.ansible.com/u/stemid)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [August 29, 2025, 4:27pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/parse-error-when-publishing-to-galaxy/44386 "2025-08-29T16:27:27Z")

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I just made my first Ansible collection but I’m getting this parse error when publishing it to Galaxy and I cannot figure out what is wrong with my DOCUMENTATION string. ERROR! module stemid.powerdns.powerdns\_record mis…

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## [Ansible Collections - Handling a Dependent Collection that is only available via SCM](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-collections-handling-a-dependent-collection-that-is-only-available-via-scm/44388)

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**Author:** [@dbrennand](https://forum.ansible.com/u/dbrennand)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [August 28, 2025, 10:11pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-collections-handling-a-dependent-collection-that-is-only-available-via-scm/44388 "2025-08-28T22:11:14Z")

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Hi Ansible Community :slightly\_smiling\_face: In my collection I have a playbook which uses some modules from a different collection however, that collection is only published on GitHub and is not published on Ansible Ga…

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## [Installing ISC/Bind On EL 10 via COPR](https://forum.ansible.com/t/installing-isc-bind-on-el-10-via-copr/44382)

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**Author:** [@Dulux-Oz](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Dulux-Oz)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [August 28, 2025, 6:12pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/installing-isc-bind-on-el-10-via-copr/44382 "2025-08-28T18:12:36Z")

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Hi All, Anyone tried to use the community.general.copr module to install isc/bind on an EL10 system? I can’t seem to get the chroot parameter correct - any help is greatly appreciated - thanks - name: Install Copr ISC…

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## [amazon.aws.ec2\_metadata\_facts from remote hosts](https://forum.ansible.com/t/amazon-aws-ec2-metadata-facts-from-remote-hosts/44381)

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**Author:** [@herda05](https://forum.ansible.com/u/herda05)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [August 27, 2025, 6:42pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/amazon-aws-ec2-metadata-facts-from-remote-hosts/44381 "2025-08-27T18:42:06Z")

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This module says in the title: amazon.aws.ec2\_metadata\_facts module – Gathers facts (instance metadata) about remote hosts within EC2 However, no matter what I do the metadata returned is all on the ansible host itself …

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## [Trying to configure ECS taskdefinition with ephemeralStorage](https://forum.ansible.com/t/trying-to-configure-ecs-taskdefinition-with-ephemeralstorage/44377)

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**Author:** [@dnmvisser](https://forum.ansible.com/u/dnmvisser)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [August 27, 2025, 1:05pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/trying-to-configure-ecs-taskdefinition-with-ephemeralstorage/44377 "2025-08-27T13:05:07Z")

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Hi I am successfully configuring an ECS Task Definition with community.aws.ecs\_taskdefinition. Now one of the containers needs to have a bigger volume. According to Fargate task ephemeral storage for Amazon ECS - Amazo…

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## [Push radius configuration via playbook](https://forum.ansible.com/t/push-radius-configuration-via-playbook/44359)

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**Author:** [@noahd320](https://forum.ansible.com/u/noahd320)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [August 27, 2025, 12:59pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/push-radius-configuration-via-playbook/44359 "2025-08-27T12:59:32Z")

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I have ansible running on a docker container on my companies air gapped system. I want to push our radius configuration to all of the switches via a playbook however I am having no luck searching this up online. I found…

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## [I want to access a variable from the "ansible\_facts" and get a FAILED with undefined variable](https://forum.ansible.com/t/i-want-to-access-a-variable-from-the-ansible-facts-and-get-a-failed-with-undefined-variable/44378)

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**Author:** [@mschm103](https://forum.ansible.com/u/mschm103)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [August 27, 2025, 12:34pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/i-want-to-access-a-variable-from-the-ansible-facts-and-get-a-failed-with-undefined-variable/44378 "2025-08-27T12:34:31Z")

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name: Testen des lineinfile Modules hosts: d127test gather\_facts: yes become: yes vars\_files: tasks: name: Filtern der IP-Adresse von en6 ansible.builtin.debug: msg: “{{ ansible\_facts\[‘en6’\]\[‘ipv4’\]\[‘address…

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## [Ansible Job taking time to start running from Execution Node via AWX](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-job-taking-time-to-start-running-from-execution-node-via-awx/44379)

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**Author:** [@Chaitanya\_Bhavsar](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Chaitanya_Bhavsar)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [August 27, 2025, 11:35am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-job-taking-time-to-start-running-from-execution-node-via-awx/44379 "2025-08-27T11:35:07Z")

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I have installed AWX on Kubernetes cluster. And there is additional node for receptor as Execution Node. When the Template run the Job, it takes almost 2-3 minutes to start the Playbook running from the execution node. N…

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## [End A Task Without Waiting For Feedback](https://forum.ansible.com/t/end-a-task-without-waiting-for-feedback/44376)

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**Author:** [@Dulux-Oz](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Dulux-Oz)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [August 27, 2025, 6:40am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/end-a-task-without-waiting-for-feedback/44376 "2025-08-27T06:40:47Z")

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Hi All, I’ve looked around the web trying to find a definitive answer as to the “best” way to acheive my desired results, but I need some feedback from the collective wisdom of the Community, please. In short, at the e…

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## [AWX Clean Up job cannot delete \_unpartitioned tables](https://forum.ansible.com/t/awx-clean-up-job-cannot-delete-unpartitioned-tables/44066)

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**Author:** [@HuubNijs](https://forum.ansible.com/u/HuubNijs)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [August 27, 2025, 9:30am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/awx-clean-up-job-cannot-delete-unpartitioned-tables/44066 "2025-08-27T09:30:22Z")

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We update AWX from version 6 (…) to 24.6.1 by use of fitbeard awx without kubernetes We use an external postgres 16 database. After restoring the dump to the new version a AWX migration took place, and everythings wor…

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## [Setting environment variables at the task level](https://forum.ansible.com/t/setting-environment-variables-at-the-task-level/44373)

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**Author:** [@RSchulze](https://forum.ansible.com/u/RSchulze)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [August 27, 2025, 9:26am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/setting-environment-variables-at-the-task-level/44373 "2025-08-27T09:26:14Z")

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Hi, I recently updated my ansible to version 2.19 and have been getting the following warning: \[WARNING\]: Found variable using reserved name 'environment'. The thing is that I’m actually trying to set environment vari…

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## [ntlm: requested auth method is ntlm, but requests\_ntlm is not installed](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ntlm-requested-auth-method-is-ntlm-but-requests-ntlm-is-not-installed/44371)

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**Author:** [@larssec](https://forum.ansible.com/u/larssec)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [August 26, 2025, 7:13pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ntlm-requested-auth-method-is-ntlm-but-requests-ntlm-is-not-installed/44371 "2025-08-26T19:13:43Z")

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I am trying to use ansible to connect to my windows nodes, but I am unable to do connect. I know the listeners are open on the nodes, as I can get a netcat connection. But I get the following errors, when I try and use…

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## [Setting security context constraint for awx operator](https://forum.ansible.com/t/setting-security-context-constraint-for-awx-operator/44372)

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**Author:** [@jeremytourville](https://forum.ansible.com/u/jeremytourville)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [August 26, 2025, 2:53pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/setting-security-context-constraint-for-awx-operator/44372 "2025-08-26T14:53:35Z")

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I have been running AWX Operator in my production kubernetes (k8s - non-OpenShift) cluster. I am using helm to deploy it. My helm chart is ver 2.11 and has been customized to pull from our private repo for images. I s…

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