Get Help

Guides, FAQs & Howtos This category is for longer pieces of “how to” that haven’t made it into the docs (yet) or are commonly asked questions in Get Help. This also has high search priority, so please do use that search for your questions!

Topic	Replies	Views	Activity
Is there a future for AWX? Get Help awx	64	8012	January 21, 2026
The new Galaxy is completely broken Get Help galaxy-ng	22	3035	November 23, 2023
Ansible Galaxy not functional? Get Help galaxy-ng	43	3765	April 8, 2024
How to create an Ansible collection with a simple module step by step Guides, FAQs & Howtos collections , dev , howto , getting-started , module	9	1178	October 27, 2025
Ansible Engine - What is it EXACTLY? Get Help ansible-core , redhat	14	2559	July 20, 2024
How to Import ansible role on galaxy.ansible.com Get Help galaxy-ng , role , namespace	18	1852	November 21, 2023
Latest version of Ansible not supported by popular collections Get Help collections , ansible-core , upgrade	17	15438	November 5, 2023
Bot used for publishing has lost namespace access Get Help galaxy-ng , namespace , bug , bot	16	645	November 29, 2023
Namespace changed and collection upload not working Get Help galaxy-ng , namespace , bug	49	1882	November 18, 2023
Assert - don't stop playbook, only report findings Get Help collections , playbook , ansible-core	14	1837	November 18, 2023
Skipping Galaxy server https://galaxy.ansible.com/api/ Get Help galaxy-ng	15	8721	October 12, 2023
Ansible ubuntu locale & keyboard-configuration Get Help playbook , ubuntu , locale	14	2306	March 17, 2024
Caching roles and collections on local environment to not rely on upstream Get Help awx , galaxy-ng	9	858	October 14, 2023
VSCode spawn C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe ENOENT Get Help collections , windows , vscode-ansible	11	7271	April 27, 2024
Ansible Galaxy (https://galaxy.ansible.com/) taking very long to respond Get Help galaxy-ng , windows , galaxy , ansible-galaxy	20	1623	July 1, 2025
Running a local container registry for Execution Environments Guides, FAQs & Howtos awx , ansible-navigator , howto , ee	8	6426	September 16, 2024
Seeking Guidance for Offline AWX Installation and Execution Environment Setup Get Help awx , playbook , howto , install , ee	16	4524	February 27, 2024
Ansible.netcommon broken with Ansible Core 2.19.0 Get Help network , cisco , templating	30	1792	September 21, 2025
Unable to parse /runner/inventory/hosts as an inventory source Get Help awx , galaxy-ng , collections , playbook , fedora , vmware	28	10277	February 16, 2024
Facts: Get the name of an interface for a given IP Get Help playbook , network	13	3807	October 21, 2023
What is the best setup if you want version control on playbooks? Get Help ansible-core , aws , terraform	10	759	October 6, 2023
How to arrange structure for the case multiple projects Get Help getting-started	29	2547	November 30, 2023
I could not upgrade ansbile from 2.13.13 to 2.15.0 Get Help ansible-core	12	3626	December 16, 2023
INJECT_FACTS_AS_VARS is defaulting to False in 2.24 Get Help ansible-core	33	1266	January 19, 2026
Dockerfiles/Containerfiles for images used in Ansible execution environments? Get Help awx , fedora , ee	9	2176	May 4, 2024
Help Using an .stdout as a WHEN Condition Get Help	11	3433	January 31, 2024
`ansible-playbook` (`ansible-core 2.17.1`) fails on target with `python 3.9` Get Help ansible-core , python	24	7000	March 24, 2025
403 for Galaxy API when publishing collection to galaxy.ansible.com Get Help galaxy-ng , bug , api , token	15	1542	November 8, 2023
Dynamic value assignment to ansible fact based on condition Get Help playbook	9	1020	October 19, 2023
Using custom module_utils-path for shared code Get Help module , callback	9	984	October 22, 2023
AWX job terminated unexpectedly Get Help awx , collections , kubernetes , ee	29	3153	April 16, 2024
Authentication Error to run ansible-playbook Get Help playbook , ansible-core , ssl	13	7954	December 26, 2023
AWX human-readable Output Configuration (YAML) Get Help awx , playbook , ansible-core , ee	15	3877	February 7, 2024
Uri module reports "URL can't contain control character" Get Help error	13	2268	January 3, 2024
How to use file contents from Git? Get Help awx	11	2190	April 13, 2024
AWX Survey 'dynamic' options? Get Help awx	14	3197	May 16, 2025
Community.general.shutdown Interactive authentication required Get Help collections , playbook , ubuntu , shutdown	11	3471	October 30, 2023
Why do modules prefer dict constructor over dict literal? Get Help documentation , dev	13	564	April 16, 2024
Ansible.builtin.copy not doing what I expect, what am I doing wrong? Get Help playbook , ubuntu	9	2034	April 14, 2024
How can I change language in new galaxy ng site? Get Help galaxy-ng , i18n , l10n	14	515	November 2, 2023
Can't run SSH against an network device (Extreme SLX switch) Get Help awx , network	30	2001	November 13, 2023
Many tasks for a single loop? Get Help playbook	13	5261	October 25, 2023
Ansible Galaxy not allowing tarball downloads Get Help galaxy-ng , aws	15	1501	August 7, 2024
Is AWX behind a reverse proxy actually possible? Get Help awx , callback , proxy	11	930	November 6, 2023
"ansible-galaxy role import" is failing with an error Get Help galaxy-ng , ansible-lint	14	2603	November 29, 2023
Getting started with Ansible… Get Help getting-started , contribute	9	554	October 7, 2023
Should we be using molecule or ansible-test for unit/integration tests? Get Help galaxy-ng , ansible-test , molecule	18	2245	January 11, 2026
Ansible YAML output: community.general.yaml has been deprecated Get Help awx , galaxy-ng , windows , vmware , kubernetes , aws , azure	11	5025	February 5, 2025
Ansible cannot find passlib when creating a user through Github Action Get Help playbook , vmware , aws	13	4358	November 4, 2024
Updating AWX image on Docker Get Help awx , upgrade , docker	13	2402	November 8, 2023