Does Ansible runs inside AWX containers as well ?

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Hi Team ,

Iam new to AWX and had query regarding ansible required as a pre-requisite for AWX installtion .

Could you let me know that does Ansible run inside awx_task container as well ? if so then why is Ansible required to be installed externally on a VM?

Hoping to point me to correct direction here . Thanks

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Look on YouTube. There are several excellent tutorials that I used to build my first one with. You will need to screen out the ones that are superficial in their delivery. I am sorry I do not have specific link for you.

Also, on www.udemy.com there are some cheap <$20 classes for first time users that you can use that are step by step instructions. I found these very helpful and did not have to have a lot of expensive infrastructure to get going.

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Hi larry ,

Sure, but in general if you have any idea on the OS for the awx container.

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I am sorry that I do not. I want to lean this also and will forward on any information as soon as I find it.

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Collapsing a couple of your questions:

Could you let me know that does Ansible run inside awx_task container as
well ? if so then why is Ansible required to be installed externally on a
VM?

The current installer is an ansible playbook and needs to be run somewhere that
has ansible installed. This is documented in the install guide:

https://github.com/ansible/awx/blob/devel/INSTALL.md

You should also see how to install on GCP (Kubernetes) there.

[re: rabbitmq]

This is documented in the Changelog
(https://github.com/ansible/awx/blob/devel/CHANGELOG.md):

...
10.0.0 (Mar 30, 2020)
...
    AWX no longer relies on RabbitMQ; Redis is added as a new dependency (https://github.com/ansible/awx/issues/5443)

Bill