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	69	17008	February 23, 2026
Galaxy.ansible.com currently down (500 errors) Get Help galaxy-ng	32	5701	February 4, 2026
The new Galaxy is completely broken Get Help galaxy-ng	21	3281	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	1373	October 27, 2025
Ansible Engine - What is it EXACTLY? Get Help ansible-core , redhat	14	2777	July 20, 2024
Ansible Galaxy not functional? Get Help galaxy-ng	43	4244	April 8, 2024
Mirroring / proxy caching galaxy Get Help galaxy-ng , galaxy , ansible-galaxy	19	1019	March 18, 2026
Different messages for different conditions in one assert Guides, FAQs & Howtos ansible-core , howto , cfgmgmgtcamp	11	297	July 26, 2026
How to Import ansible role on galaxy.ansible.com Get Help galaxy-ng , role , namespace	17	2019	October 22, 2023
Latest version of Ansible not supported by popular collections Get Help collections , ansible-core , upgrade	16	17230	October 6, 2023
Any news on AWX Development Get Help awx , ee	16	2353	April 30, 2026
Bot used for publishing has lost namespace access Get Help galaxy-ng , namespace , bug , bot	15	727	October 30, 2023
Namespace changed and collection upload not working Get Help galaxy-ng , namespace , bug	47	2138	November 18, 2023
Assert - don't stop playbook, only report findings Get Help collections , playbook , ansible-core	13	2211	October 19, 2023
INJECT_FACTS_AS_VARS is defaulting to False in 2.24 Get Help ansible-core	40	6830	August 6, 2026
Ansible Galaxy (https://galaxy.ansible.com/) taking very long to respond Get Help galaxy-ng , windows , galaxy , ansible-galaxy	20	2877	July 1, 2025
Ansible ubuntu locale & keyboard-configuration Get Help playbook , ubuntu , locale	13	2662	February 16, 2024
Ansible.netcommon broken with Ansible Core 2.19.0 Get Help network , cisco , templating	29	2450	August 22, 2025
Running a local container registry for Execution Environments Guides, FAQs & Howtos awx , ansible-navigator , howto , ee	8	7410	September 16, 2024
Skipping Galaxy server https://galaxy.ansible.com/api/ Get Help galaxy-ng	15	9399	October 12, 2023
Unable to parse /runner/inventory/hosts as an inventory source Get Help awx , galaxy-ng , collections , playbook , fedora , vmware	27	11218	January 17, 2024
What is the best setup if you want version control on playbooks? Get Help ansible-core , aws , terraform	10	991	October 6, 2023
Using Ansible to mitigate copy.fail Get Help	10	532	May 2, 2026
How to arrange structure for the case multiple projects Get Help getting-started	29	3150	November 30, 2023
Facts: Get the name of an interface for a given IP Get Help playbook , network	12	4393	September 21, 2023
VSCode spawn C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe ENOENT Get Help collections , windows , vscode-ansible	10	8057	March 28, 2024
Ubuntu PPA key signature Get Help ubuntu	11	1293	March 5, 2026
Timeouts when installing collections from Ansible Galaxy (https://galaxy.ansible.com/) Get Help galaxy-ng , ansible-galaxy	30	803	September 17, 2026
I could not upgrade ansbile from 2.13.13 to 2.15.0 Get Help ansible-core	11	3892	November 16, 2023
Help Using an .stdout as a WHEN Condition Get Help	10	3947	January 1, 2024
`ansible-playbook` (`ansible-core 2.17.1`) fails on target with `python 3.9` Get Help ansible-core , python	24	7675	March 24, 2025
403 for Galaxy API when publishing collection to galaxy.ansible.com Get Help galaxy-ng , bug , api , token	14	1702	October 9, 2023
WinRM on APT Ansible installation Get Help ubuntu , windows , ssh , winrm	9	1160	October 15, 2023
Seeking Guidance for Offline AWX Installation and Execution Environment Setup Get Help awx , playbook , howto , install , ee	16	4993	February 27, 2024
AWX job terminated unexpectedly Get Help awx , collections , kubernetes , ee	29	3586	April 16, 2024
I don't understand gather_subset Get Help	14	2635	June 27, 2024
Authentication Error to run ansible-playbook Get Help playbook , ansible-core , ssl , zscaler	13	8495	December 26, 2023
AWX human-readable Output Configuration (YAML) Get Help awx , playbook , ansible-core , ee	15	4325	February 7, 2024
Uri module reports "URL can't contain control character" Get Help error	12	2500	December 4, 2023
Ansible YAML output: community.general.yaml has been deprecated Get Help awx , galaxy-ng , windows , vmware , kubernetes , aws , azure	10	8199	January 6, 2025
AWX Survey 'dynamic' options? Get Help awx	14	3784	May 16, 2025
How to use file contents from Git? Get Help awx	10	2458	March 14, 2024
Community.general.shutdown Interactive authentication required Get Help collections , playbook , ubuntu , shutdown	11	4150	October 30, 2023
Why do modules prefer dict constructor over dict literal? Get Help documentation , dev	12	695	March 17, 2024
How can I change language in new galaxy ng site? Get Help galaxy-ng , i18n , l10n	13	648	October 3, 2023
Should we be using molecule or ansible-test for unit/integration tests? Get Help galaxy-ng , ansible-test , molecule	18	3079	January 11, 2026
Roles purpose, best practices Get Help playbook , role	9	1317	July 10, 2024
Many tasks for a single loop? Get Help playbook	13	6162	October 25, 2023
Ansible Galaxy not allowing tarball downloads Get Help galaxy-ng , aws	14	1778	July 8, 2024
Can't run SSH against an network device (Extreme SLX switch) Get Help awx , network	30	2197	November 13, 2023