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	10516	February 23, 2026
Galaxy.ansible.com currently down (500 errors) Get Help galaxy-ng	37	5218	February 26, 2026
The new Galaxy is completely broken Get Help galaxy-ng	22	3131	November 23, 2023
Ansible Galaxy not functional? Get Help galaxy-ng	43	4016	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	1231	October 27, 2025
Ansible Engine - What is it EXACTLY? Get Help ansible-core , redhat	14	2610	July 20, 2024
How to Import ansible role on galaxy.ansible.com Get Help galaxy-ng , role , namespace	18	1892	November 21, 2023
Mirroring / proxy caching galaxy Get Help galaxy-ng , galaxy , ansible-galaxy	16	300	February 20, 2026
Latest version of Ansible not supported by popular collections Get Help collections , ansible-core , upgrade	17	15983	November 5, 2023
Bot used for publishing has lost namespace access Get Help galaxy-ng , namespace , bug , bot	16	663	November 29, 2023
Namespace changed and collection upload not working Get Help galaxy-ng , namespace , bug	49	1964	November 18, 2023
Assert - don't stop playbook, only report findings Get Help collections , playbook , ansible-core	14	1931	November 18, 2023
Different messages for different conditions in one assert Guides, FAQs & Howtos ansible-core , howto , cfgmgmgtcamp	10	124	February 9, 2026
Skipping Galaxy server https://galaxy.ansible.com/api/ Get Help galaxy-ng	15	8901	October 12, 2023
Ansible Galaxy (https://galaxy.ansible.com/) taking very long to respond Get Help galaxy-ng , windows , galaxy , ansible-galaxy	20	2211	July 1, 2025
Ansible ubuntu locale & keyboard-configuration Get Help playbook , ubuntu , locale	14	2399	March 17, 2024
Caching roles and collections on local environment to not rely on upstream Get Help awx , galaxy-ng	9	917	October 14, 2023
INJECT_FACTS_AS_VARS is defaulting to False in 2.24 Get Help ansible-core	33	2655	January 19, 2026
Ansible.netcommon broken with Ansible Core 2.19.0 Get Help network , cisco , templating	30	2019	September 21, 2025
Running a local container registry for Execution Environments Guides, FAQs & Howtos awx , ansible-navigator , howto , ee	8	6643	September 16, 2024
Unable to parse /runner/inventory/hosts as an inventory source Get Help awx , galaxy-ng , collections , playbook , fedora , vmware	28	10531	February 16, 2024
What is the best setup if you want version control on playbooks? Get Help ansible-core , aws , terraform	10	807	October 6, 2023
Facts: Get the name of an interface for a given IP Get Help playbook , network	13	3975	October 21, 2023
How to arrange structure for the case multiple projects Get Help getting-started	29	2692	November 30, 2023
VSCode spawn C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe ENOENT Get Help collections , windows , vscode-ansible	11	7551	April 27, 2024
I could not upgrade ansbile from 2.13.13 to 2.15.0 Get Help ansible-core	12	3700	December 16, 2023
Dockerfiles/Containerfiles for images used in Ansible execution environments? Get Help awx , fedora , ee	9	2245	May 4, 2024
Help Using an .stdout as a WHEN Condition Get Help	11	3567	January 31, 2024
`ansible-playbook` (`ansible-core 2.17.1`) fails on target with `python 3.9` Get Help ansible-core , python	24	7193	March 24, 2025
403 for Galaxy API when publishing collection to galaxy.ansible.com Get Help galaxy-ng , bug , api , token	15	1575	November 8, 2023
Seeking Guidance for Offline AWX Installation and Execution Environment Setup Get Help awx , playbook , howto , install , ee	16	4647	February 27, 2024
Dynamic value assignment to ansible fact based on condition Get Help playbook	9	1057	October 19, 2023
Using custom module_utils-path for shared code Get Help module , callback	9	1025	October 22, 2023
AWX job terminated unexpectedly Get Help awx , collections , kubernetes , ee	29	3276	April 16, 2024
Authentication Error to run ansible-playbook Get Help playbook , ansible-core , ssl	13	8069	December 26, 2023
AWX human-readable Output Configuration (YAML) Get Help awx , playbook , ansible-core , ee	15	3985	February 7, 2024
Uri module reports "URL can't contain control character" Get Help error	13	2328	January 3, 2024
How to use file contents from Git? Get Help awx	11	2247	April 13, 2024
AWX Survey 'dynamic' options? Get Help awx	14	3345	May 16, 2025
Why do modules prefer dict constructor over dict literal? Get Help documentation , dev	13	602	April 16, 2024
Community.general.shutdown Interactive authentication required Get Help collections , playbook , ubuntu , shutdown	11	3587	October 30, 2023
Ansible.builtin.copy not doing what I expect, what am I doing wrong? Get Help playbook , ubuntu	9	2142	April 14, 2024
How can I change language in new galaxy ng site? Get Help galaxy-ng , i18n , l10n	14	546	November 2, 2023
Many tasks for a single loop? Get Help playbook	13	5493	October 25, 2023
Can't run SSH against an network device (Extreme SLX switch) Get Help awx , network	30	2072	November 13, 2023
Ansible YAML output: community.general.yaml has been deprecated Get Help awx , galaxy-ng , windows , vmware , kubernetes , aws , azure	11	5860	February 5, 2025
Ansible Galaxy not allowing tarball downloads Get Help galaxy-ng , aws	15	1589	August 7, 2024
Should we be using molecule or ansible-test for unit/integration tests? Get Help galaxy-ng , ansible-test , molecule	18	2426	January 11, 2026
Is AWX behind a reverse proxy actually possible? Get Help awx , callback , proxy	11	957	November 6, 2023
Getting started with Ansible… Get Help getting-started , contribute	9	584	October 7, 2023