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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	69	12462	February 23, 2026
Galaxy.ansible.com currently down (500 errors) Get Help galaxy-ng	37	5293	February 26, 2026
The new Galaxy is completely broken Get Help galaxy-ng	22	3151	November 23, 2023
How to create an Ansible collection with a simple module step by step Guides, FAQs & Howtos collections , dev , howto , getting-started , module	9	1263	October 27, 2025
Ansible Engine - What is it EXACTLY? Get Help ansible-core , redhat	14	2624	July 20, 2024
Ansible Galaxy not functional? Get Help galaxy-ng	43	4031	April 8, 2024
Mirroring / proxy caching galaxy Get Help galaxy-ng , galaxy , ansible-galaxy	19	432	March 18, 2026
How to Import ansible role on galaxy.ansible.com Get Help galaxy-ng , role , namespace	18	1900	November 21, 2023
Latest version of Ansible not supported by popular collections Get Help collections , ansible-core , upgrade	17	16319	November 5, 2023
INJECT_FACTS_AS_VARS is defaulting to False in 2.24 Get Help ansible-core	33	3585	January 19, 2026
Different messages for different conditions in one assert Guides, FAQs & Howtos ansible-core , howto , cfgmgmgtcamp	10	151	February 9, 2026
Bot used for publishing has lost namespace access Get Help galaxy-ng , namespace , bug , bot	16	665	November 29, 2023
Namespace changed and collection upload not working Get Help galaxy-ng , namespace , bug	49	1973	November 18, 2023
Assert - don't stop playbook, only report findings Get Help collections , playbook , ansible-core	14	1970	November 18, 2023
Skipping Galaxy server https://galaxy.ansible.com/api/ Get Help galaxy-ng	15	9024	October 12, 2023
Ansible Galaxy (https://galaxy.ansible.com/) taking very long to respond Get Help galaxy-ng , windows , galaxy , ansible-galaxy	20	2272	July 1, 2025
Ansible ubuntu locale & keyboard-configuration Get Help playbook , ubuntu , locale	14	2444	March 17, 2024
Caching roles and collections on local environment to not rely on upstream Get Help awx , galaxy-ng	9	934	October 14, 2023
Ansible.netcommon broken with Ansible Core 2.19.0 Get Help network , cisco , templating	30	2139	September 21, 2025
Running a local container registry for Execution Environments Guides, FAQs & Howtos awx , ansible-navigator , howto , ee	8	6827	September 16, 2024
Unable to parse /runner/inventory/hosts as an inventory source Get Help awx , galaxy-ng , collections , playbook , fedora , vmware	28	10717	February 16, 2024
What is the best setup if you want version control on playbooks? Get Help ansible-core , aws , terraform	10	844	October 6, 2023
Facts: Get the name of an interface for a given IP Get Help playbook , network	13	4081	October 21, 2023
How to arrange structure for the case multiple projects Get Help getting-started	29	2759	November 30, 2023
VSCode spawn C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe ENOENT Get Help collections , windows , vscode-ansible	11	7754	April 27, 2024
I could not upgrade ansbile from 2.13.13 to 2.15.0 Get Help ansible-core	12	3745	December 16, 2023
Dockerfiles/Containerfiles for images used in Ansible execution environments? Get Help awx , fedora , ee	9	2280	May 4, 2024
Help Using an .stdout as a WHEN Condition Get Help	11	3657	January 31, 2024
`ansible-playbook` (`ansible-core 2.17.1`) fails on target with `python 3.9` Get Help ansible-core , python	24	7303	March 24, 2025
403 for Galaxy API when publishing collection to galaxy.ansible.com Get Help galaxy-ng , bug , api , token	15	1580	November 8, 2023
Seeking Guidance for Offline AWX Installation and Execution Environment Setup Get Help awx , playbook , howto , install , ee	16	4723	February 27, 2024
WinRM on APT Ansible installation Get Help ubuntu , windows , ssh , winrm	9	1076	October 15, 2023
Dynamic value assignment to ansible fact based on condition Get Help playbook	9	1069	October 19, 2023
Using custom module_utils-path for shared code Get Help module , callback	9	1041	October 22, 2023
AWX job terminated unexpectedly Get Help awx , collections , kubernetes , ee	29	3332	April 16, 2024
Authentication Error to run ansible-playbook Get Help playbook , ansible-core , ssl , zscaler	13	8183	December 26, 2023
AWX human-readable Output Configuration (YAML) Get Help awx , playbook , ansible-core , ee	15	4084	February 7, 2024
Uri module reports "URL can't contain control character" Get Help error	13	2363	January 3, 2024
How to use file contents from Git? Get Help awx	11	2286	April 13, 2024
AWX Survey 'dynamic' options? Get Help awx	14	3480	May 16, 2025
Why do modules prefer dict constructor over dict literal? Get Help documentation , dev	13	624	April 16, 2024
Community.general.shutdown Interactive authentication required Get Help collections , playbook , ubuntu , shutdown	11	3723	October 30, 2023
Ansible YAML output: community.general.yaml has been deprecated Get Help awx , galaxy-ng , windows , vmware , kubernetes , aws , azure	11	6455	February 5, 2025
Ansible.builtin.copy not doing what I expect, what am I doing wrong? Get Help playbook , ubuntu	9	2222	April 14, 2024
Ubuntu PPA key signature Get Help ubuntu	11	635	March 5, 2026
How can I change language in new galaxy ng site? Get Help galaxy-ng , i18n , l10n	14	553	November 2, 2023
Many tasks for a single loop? Get Help playbook	13	5605	October 25, 2023
Can't run SSH against an network device (Extreme SLX switch) Get Help awx , network	30	2083	November 13, 2023
Ansible Galaxy not allowing tarball downloads Get Help galaxy-ng , aws	15	1621	August 7, 2024
Should we be using molecule or ansible-test for unit/integration tests? Get Help galaxy-ng , ansible-test , molecule	18	2559	January 11, 2026