AWX not updating or showing the new playbooks added to the git repository

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AWX not updating or showing the new playbooks added to the git repository

SUMMARY

AWX not updating or showing the new playbooks added to the git repository.

I have AWX installed on Ubuntu using a docker compose on AWS EC2 Instance and is working as expected and able to login to AWX. Initially we started saving the playbooks on instances using the “machine” option but then faced the issue where the playbooks were not updated. Eventually googling, i found that the playbooks needs to exist on both the containers or should be in a shared volume else we will see similar issues and the alternate recommended option was to store them in a git repository.
Since we didn’t want to overdo it, we choose to use SCM as an option.

First Time:

  • We have added the playbooks into the git repo → public
  • Create the Inventory add the hosts
  • Create Project choose SCM and provided the credentials and also the giturl for fetching the playbooks.
  • Create a template and then choose the appropriate playbook and save
  • Press the golden “Rocket” and the playbook is executed on the host.

Now comes the issue:

  • Edit the playbook in the git repo and add new tasks to the existing playbook.
  • commit and push into git
  • These tasks are not listed in the current playbook existing already on AWX → BAsicall AWX is not refreshed with the new contents added in the playbook.
  • Create a new playbook and even that does not come up in the template section to run them

Workaround:
Delete the Project and the template
Create a new one and everything seems to work seamlessly with the new updated file and contents until we edit the playbook or add new playbooks.

Bootlenecks:

We are integrating AWX job template with our Server for remediation jobs and the template -id cannot be changed often,
Now everytime, i delete and recreate the project and the template a new ID is created.
Template_ID which needs to get updated in our system else the integration fails.

ENVIRONMENT- AWX version: AWX 14.0.0

  • AWX install method: docker on ubuntu, -->Using Docker Compose on Ubuntu
  • Ansible version: Ansible 2.9.11
  • Operating System: Ubuntu 18.04
  • Web Browser: Chrome/Firefox
    STEPS TO REPRODUCEInstall AWX on Ubuntu using Docker compose create a git repo and add one playbook login to AWX create a inventory and add a host create a project → with SCM create a template and choose the playbook Run it ensure it is successful edit the playbook in git repo with new tasks or add a new plabook to the git repo and commit it check the playbook on AWX, it is not updated with the new contents EXPECTED RESULTS

The new playbooks should be listed automatically or the contents of it should be updated and a delete and recreate should not be the intended action

ACTUAL RESULTS

The new playbooks added to the git repo is not refreshed on AWX on the browser.
The existing playbook does not show the new contents

CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES
1025b62598f2 ansible/awx:14.0.0 “tini – /usr/bin/la…” 2 days ago Up 2 days 8052/tcp awx_task
3f43d3674024 ansible/awx:14.0.0 “tini – /bin/sh -c …” 2 days ago Up 2 days 0.0.0.0:80->8052/tcp awx_web
eb14301ea455 postgres:10 “docker-entrypoint.s…” 2 days ago Up 2 days 5432/tcp awx_postgres
458068c5dac0 redis “docker-entrypoint.s…” 2 days ago Up 2 days 6379/tcp awx_redis

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Can you paste the sample playbook which is not getting reflected. This happens when either the file doesnt have Yaml extension of doesnt have the correct yaml formatting. Also, did you execute project sync post the changes and verified that you are on the latest git commit?

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Looks like the sync was not done and hence not update.

Thank you
Anish

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https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-tower/latest/html/userguide/projects.html → Reading the documentation is sometimes so important :wink: