# AWX + ARA in containers

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/awx-ara-in-containers/29959>\
**Category:** AWX Project\
**Tags:** awx\
**Created:** [March 22, 2019, 4:31pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/awx-ara-in-containers/29959 "2019-03-22T16:31:06Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![dmccheyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@dmccheyne](https://forum.ansible.com/u/dmccheyne)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2019, 4:31pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/awx-ara-in-containers/29959/1 "2019-03-22T16:31:06Z")

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Good Afternoon AWX community,

Has anyone setup AWX and ARA together on docker? Or have a blog/reference on the experience?

It seems like it should be pretty straightforward, but ansible-playbook runs aren’t picking up the callback\_modules I expected from ansible.cfg.

Is this something to do with the custom AWX callback module, or am I missing something else about AWX here? I’ve set this up with a vanilla Ansible project and this was all the config it needed so I’m hoping I just missed a change somewhere?

in the awx\_task container I’ve pip installed ara, and set values in /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg like:

```auto

[defaults]
callback_plugins=/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ara/plugins/callbacks 
action_plugins=/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ara/plugins/actions

The play seems to use the right config, but I see no mention of the ARA plugin being loaded or the var's I've set being picked up.

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```auto

ansible-playbook 2.7.6

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  config file = /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg

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  configured module search path = [u'/var/lib/awx/.ansible/plugins/modules', u'/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']

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  ansible python module location = /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible

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  executable location = /usr/bin/ansible-playbook

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  python version = 2.7.5 (default, Oct 30 2018, 23:45:53) [GCC 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-36)]

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Using /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg as config file

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setting up inventory plugins

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/tmp/awx_1451_nf2qogg3/tmp78yh1dh6 did not meet host_list requirements, check plugin documentation if this is unexpected

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Parsed /tmp/awx_1451_nf2qogg3/tmp78yh1dh6 inventory source with script plugin

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statically imported: /var/lib/awx/projects/_55__project1/roles/nginx/tasks/default_nginx.yml

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Loading callback plugin awx_display of type stdout, v2.0 from /var/lib/awx/venv/awx/lib/python3.6/site-packages/awx/lib/awx_display_callback/module.pyc

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**Author:** ![dmccheyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@dmccheyne](https://forum.ansible.com/u/dmccheyne)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2019, 4:57pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/awx-ara-in-containers/29959/2 "2019-03-22T16:57:11Z")

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I’m able to get the values set by exporting them on the command line inside the awx\_task container, and then running ansible-config dump which shows the expected:

`DEFAULT_ACTION_PLUGIN_PATH(env: ANSIBLE_ACTION_PLUGINS) = [u'/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ara/plugins/actions'] ... DEFAULT_CALLBACK_PLUGIN_PATH(env: ANSIBLE_CALLBACK_PLUGINS) = [u'/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ara/plugins/callbacks']`

But the values are set to the default at run time and I’m not sure where best to set them for AWX runs to respect them.

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![Uriel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/53a042/32.png) [@Uriel](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Uriel)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2019, 10:03pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/awx-ara-in-containers/29959/3 "2019-03-22T22:03:08Z")

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You can add environment variables at deployment time by just adding more vars to the playbook you’re using to deploy AWX. For example, if you’re doing a local docker deployment, add env vars to the file [https://github.com/ansible/awx/blob/devel/installer/roles/local\_docker/tasks/standalone.yml](https://github.com/ansible/awx/blob/devel/installer/roles/local_docker/tasks/standalone.yml) under the awx\_web and awx\_task containers.