# DOCUMENTATION\>AWX Operator - How do I customize the initial setup within AWX 'instance'

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/documentation-awx-operator-how-do-i-customize-the-initial-setup-within-awx-instance/37473>\
**Category:** AWX Project\
**Tags:** awx, kubernetes\
**Created:** [December 16, 2022, 1:51am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/documentation-awx-operator-how-do-i-customize-the-initial-setup-within-awx-instance/37473 "2022-12-16T01:51:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![Rick\_Landon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b5a626/32.png) [@Rick\_Landon](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Rick_Landon)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2022, 1:51am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/documentation-awx-operator-how-do-i-customize-the-initial-setup-within-awx-instance/37473/1 "2022-12-16T01:51:53Z")

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I have installed AWX in Kubernetes (microk8s) using the [operator instructions.](https://github.com/ansible/awx-operator)  
Once I login to the dashboard I notice that certain hosts, inventories, templates, teams etc are pre-defined. For example, under Dashboard I see 1 Host and then under that localhost.

I see in the operator document that settings such as admin account/credential and so forth can be configured as resources with ‘awx-demo.yaml’ (which is added to the kustomize.yaml after installing the operator.

I am unable to locate in the documentation any information on how override the additional settings (host, inventories, orgs, etc) using code: that is how to configure the AWX ‘instance’ using a programmatic API or (hopefully) a Ansible playbook that I configure (somehow) under **spec:** in the ‘instance yaml’ (e.g., awx-demo.yaml), or any other method

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**Author:** ![Boardy404](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7ab992/32.png) [@Boardy404](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Boardy404)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2022, 9:31am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/documentation-awx-operator-how-do-i-customize-the-initial-setup-within-awx-instance/37473/2 "2022-12-16T09:31:29Z")

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Hi Rick,

I have used the awx.awx ansible collection to manage the config you are talking about.

[https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/awx/awx/index.html](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/awx/awx/index.html)

We have created additional roles that do this for us, but those are being run separately from the deployment of the operator.

Hope that helps!

Ian