# Does Ansible runs inside AWX containers as well ?

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/does-ansible-runs-inside-awx-containers-as-well/34257>\
**Category:** AWX Project\
**Tags:** awx\
**Created:** [November 30, 2020, 11:41am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/does-ansible-runs-inside-awx-containers-as-well/34257 "2020-11-30T11:41:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![GAURAV\_Pande](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a3d4f5/32.png) [@GAURAV\_Pande](https://forum.ansible.com/u/GAURAV_Pande)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2020, 11:41am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/does-ansible-runs-inside-awx-containers-as-well/34257/1 "2020-11-30T11:41:24Z")

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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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**Author:** ![larry\_comes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/858c86/32.png) [@larry\_comes](https://forum.ansible.com/u/larry_comes)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2020, 1:55pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/does-ansible-runs-inside-awx-containers-as-well/34257/2 "2020-11-30T13:55:50Z")

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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](http://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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**Author:** ![GAURAV\_Pande](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a3d4f5/32.png) [@GAURAV\_Pande](https://forum.ansible.com/u/GAURAV_Pande)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2020, 2:24pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/does-ansible-runs-inside-awx-containers-as-well/34257/3 "2020-11-30T14:24:38Z")

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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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**Author:** ![larry\_comes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/858c86/32.png) [@larry\_comes](https://forum.ansible.com/u/larry_comes)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2020, 3:25pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/does-ansible-runs-inside-awx-containers-as-well/34257/4 "2020-11-30T15:25:47Z")

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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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**Author:** ![Bill\_Nottingham1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/58f4c7/32.png) [@Bill\_Nottingham1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Bill_Nottingham1)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2020, 6:34pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/does-ansible-runs-inside-awx-containers-as-well/34257/5 "2020-11-30T18:34:50Z")

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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](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](https://github.com/ansible/awx/blob/devel/CHANGELOG.md)):

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

Bill