Is it possible to install AWX with a central web container, but multiple task containers to distribute the workloads?
Use Case: I have a global network and would prefer for ansible to run locally at each site, but want to be able to control things from the common web interface. e.g. playbook1 runs in SFO and playbook2 runs in LHR.
Is that what “intance groups” are for (I don’t seem to be able to add any new instance groups)?
thanks,
-MikeB
Local clusters are currently supported in Tower itself, but needs some changes to work with the AWX installer and cluster management system. It’ll be a transition over the next few months to get this up and running on AWX. From a “what will I need to run this” standpoint, we’re going to focus the work initially on Openshift (and probably Kubernetes later).
Having said that, you sound like you want geographically distributed workers / federated systems. This isn’t something we’re really set up for on AWX at the moment and isn’t something we’re going to be focusing on in the short term.
Instance Groups themselves are focused around grouping instances themselves, then assigning those groups to various things (Organizations, Inventories, Job Templates) as a way of guaranteeing capacity to certain workloads.