# AWX and running playbooks and roles.

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/awx-and-running-playbooks-and-roles/33882>\
**Category:** AWX Project\
**Tags:** awx\
**Created:** [September 23, 2020, 11:02pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/awx-and-running-playbooks-and-roles/33882 "2020-09-23T23:02:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![Daniel2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Daniel2](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Daniel2)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2020, 11:02pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/awx-and-running-playbooks-and-roles/33882/1 "2020-09-23T23:02:25Z")

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As I have stated in a series of different questions tonight, I am new to AWX and to Docker.

We also got a copy of Tower running, and by talking to the RedHat folks they say it is better to run the playbooks from “Tower”, I assume that since AWX is the upstream of Tower, the same is true, for logging and such?

I have created some simple playbooks, all in a simple file, check a disk partition for space, if passed, copy a Jenkins War file from a URL, move the .WAR file in use to a new name in a different directory, then run a command on the Linux server to simulate what I would do for a Jenkins install. All of this is in one file. When it is recommended to go to a role with its various directories?

Thank you  
Daniel