# Can a Remote Execution Node launch Pods instead of running ansible-runner ? **URL:** \ **Category:** Get Help\ **Tags:** kubernetes, awx, ee\ **Created:** [October 9, 2025, 9:10pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/can-a-remote-execution-node-launch-pods-instead-of-running-ansible-runner/44657 "2025-10-09T21:10:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![johan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/dec6dc/32.png) [@johan](https://forum.ansible.com/u/johan)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2025, 8:37am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/can-a-remote-execution-node-launch-pods-instead-of-running-ansible-runner/44657/2 "2025-10-10T08:37:23Z")
Hello, you have below a good tutorial about basic receptor / ansible-runner usage which could be a good starting point : > [@Ansible-runner and receptor: The hard way](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-runner-and-receptor-the-hard-way/1129): > > After playing around with Ansible Automation platform and AWX for some time now, I decided to get under the hood and figure out how the platform operates at scale and how job are executed on remote nodes Ansible-runner According to the Ansibe-runner documentation “Ansible Runner is a tool and python library that helps when interfacing with Ansible directly or as part of another system whether that be through a container image interface, as a standalone tool, or as a Python module that can be im… --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.ansible.com/t/can-a-remote-execution-node-launch-pods-instead-of-running-ansible-runner/44657)._