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
The new Galaxy is completely broken Get Help galaxy-ng	22	2890	November 23, 2023
Ansible Galaxy not functional? Get Help galaxy-ng	43	3517	April 8, 2024
Ansible Engine - What is it EXACTLY? Get Help ansible-core , redhat	14	2423	July 20, 2024
How to Import ansible role on galaxy.ansible.com Get Help galaxy-ng , role , namespace	18	1730	November 21, 2023
Latest version of Ansible not supported by popular collections Get Help collections , ansible-core , upgrade	17	12482	November 5, 2023
Bot used for publishing has lost namespace access Get Help galaxy-ng , namespace , bug , bot	16	602	November 29, 2023
Namespace changed and collection upload not working Get Help galaxy-ng , namespace , bug	49	1788	November 18, 2023
Assert - don't stop playbook, only report findings Get Help collections , playbook , ansible-core	14	1523	November 18, 2023
Skipping Galaxy server https://galaxy.ansible.com/api/ Get Help galaxy-ng	15	7963	October 12, 2023
Ansible ubuntu locale & keyboard-configuration Get Help playbook , ubuntu , locale	14	2019	March 17, 2024
Caching roles and collections on local environment to not rely on upstream Get Help awx , galaxy-ng	9	716	October 14, 2023
VSCode spawn C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe ENOENT Get Help collections , windows , vscode-ansible	11	6422	April 27, 2024
Running a local container registry for Execution Environments Guides, FAQs & Howtos awx , ansible-navigator , howto , ee	8	5490	September 16, 2024
Ansible Galaxy (https://galaxy.ansible.com/) taking very long to respond Get Help galaxy-ng , windows , galaxy , ansible-galaxy	20	1133	July 1, 2025
Seeking Guidance for Offline AWX Installation and Execution Environment Setup Get Help awx , playbook , howto , install , ee	16	3911	February 27, 2024
Unable to parse /runner/inventory/hosts as an inventory source Get Help awx , galaxy-ng , collections , playbook , fedora , vmware	28	8999	February 16, 2024
What is the best setup if you want version control on playbooks? Get Help ansible-core , aws , terraform	10	648	October 6, 2023
I could not upgrade ansbile from 2.13.13 to 2.15.0 Get Help ansible-core	12	3297	December 16, 2023
Facts: Get the name of an interface for a given IP Get Help playbook , network	13	3151	October 21, 2023
How to arrange structure for the case multiple projects Get Help getting-started	29	2126	November 30, 2023
Dockerfiles/Containerfiles for images used in Ansible execution environments? Get Help awx , fedora , ee	9	1834	May 4, 2024
403 for Galaxy API when publishing collection to galaxy.ansible.com Get Help galaxy-ng , bug , api , token	15	1435	November 8, 2023
Help Using an .stdout as a WHEN Condition Get Help	11	2845	January 31, 2024
`ansible-playbook` (`ansible-core 2.17.1`) fails on target with `python 3.9` Get Help ansible-core , python	24	6046	March 24, 2025
Dynamic value assignment to ansible fact based on condition Get Help playbook	9	890	October 19, 2023
AWX job terminated unexpectedly Get Help awx , collections , kubernetes , ee	29	2859	April 16, 2024
Authentication Error to run ansible-playbook Get Help playbook , ansible-core , ssl	13	7175	December 26, 2023
Using custom module_utils-path for shared code Get Help module , callback	9	844	October 22, 2023
Uri module reports "URL can't contain control character" Get Help error	13	2094	January 3, 2024
AWX human-readable Output Configuration (YAML) Get Help awx , playbook , ansible-core , ee	15	3271	February 7, 2024
How can I change language in new galaxy ng site? Get Help galaxy-ng , i18n , l10n	14	490	November 2, 2023
Roles namespace has changed with the new Galaxy website Get Help galaxy-ng , namespace	9	592	January 8, 2024
Community.general.shutdown Interactive authentication required Get Help collections , playbook , ubuntu , shutdown	11	3027	October 30, 2023
Can't run SSH against an network device (Extreme SLX switch) Get Help awx , network	30	1810	November 13, 2023
AWX Survey 'dynamic' options? Get Help awx	14	2573	May 16, 2025
Why do modules prefer dict constructor over dict literal? Get Help documentation , dev	13	469	April 16, 2024
"ansible-galaxy role import" is failing with an error Get Help galaxy-ng , ansible-lint	14	2403	November 29, 2023
Getting started with Ansible… Get Help getting-started , contribute	9	511	October 7, 2023
Ansible.builtin.copy not doing what I expect, what am I doing wrong? Get Help playbook , ubuntu	9	1604	April 14, 2024
Many tasks for a single loop? Get Help playbook	13	4282	October 25, 2023
Is AWX behind a reverse proxy actually possible? Get Help awx , callback , proxy	11	816	November 6, 2023
Updating AWX image on Docker Get Help awx , upgrade , docker	13	2281	November 8, 2023
Ansible Galaxy not allowing tarball downloads Get Help galaxy-ng , aws	15	1160	August 7, 2024
Data migration to the new galaxy.ansible.com Get Help galaxy-ng , namespace , bug	10	737	November 12, 2023
Ansible cannot find passlib when creating a user through Github Action Get Help playbook , vmware , aws	13	3206	November 4, 2024
How to use file contents from Git? Get Help awx	11	1897	April 13, 2024
Ansible Sync Remote Server A to Remote Server B Get Help playbook , rsync , synchronize	10	3450	November 7, 2023
Ansible.netcommon broken with Ansible Core 2.19.0 Get Help network , cisco , templating	19	453	August 7, 2025
Creation of AWX execution node failed Get Help awx , ansible-core	9	3445	December 29, 2023
Securely Storing Personal Credentials for Ansible Without Compromising Convenience Get Help ansible-lint , ansible-vault	9	1006	December 11, 2023