# AWX Ansible Version Upgrade to 2.9.x

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/awx-ansible-version-upgrade-to-2-9-x/31916>\
**Category:** AWX Project\
**Tags:** awx\
**Created:** [January 6, 2020, 7:44pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/awx-ansible-version-upgrade-to-2-9-x/31916 "2020-01-06T19:44:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![Garrett\_Kelly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cab0a1/32.png) [@Garrett\_Kelly](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Garrett_Kelly)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2020, 7:44pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/awx-ansible-version-upgrade-to-2-9-x/31916/1 "2020-01-06T19:44:04Z")

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Hey all,

We are hoping to use the vmware\_guest\_network module via AWX, and noticed the dependency for Ansible version 2.9.

From what I see, Ansible 2.8.5 is the latest Ansible paired with AWX 9.1?

Any idea when we might expect to see that upgraded? Thanks!

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**Author:** ![Graham\_Mainwaring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/db5fbb/32.png) [@Graham\_Mainwaring](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Graham_Mainwaring)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2020, 10:12pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/awx-ansible-version-upgrade-to-2-9-x/31916/2 "2020-01-07T22:12:59Z")

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AWX is compatible with Ansible 2.9. The reason you’re getting 2.8.5 is that the prebuilt AWX container images are based on CentOS 8 and get their Ansible from EPEL, and 2.8.5 is the latest Ansible in EPEL 8. So one option would be to edit your awx\_task Dockerfile and change how it acquires Ansible. Perhaps a simpler option would be to make a Python virtualenv, pip install the latest Ansible into it (and PyVmomi and whatever else you need), and then define that as a custom virtualenv for your job template that uses vmware\_guest\_network.