# Error During building the Execution Environment for the AWX

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/error-during-building-the-execution-environment-for-the-awx/44492>\
**Category:** Get Help\
**Tags:** azure, kubernetes, windows, rhel, ansible-project, awx, collections, galaxy-ng, ee\
**Created:** [September 15, 2025, 4:04pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/error-during-building-the-execution-environment-for-the-awx/44492 "2025-09-15T16:04:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![Suhas\_Chandrashekar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Suhas\_Chandrashekar](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Suhas_Chandrashekar)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2025, 4:04pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/error-during-building-the-execution-environment-for-the-awx/44492/1 "2025-09-15T16:04:37Z")

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\*\*Error During building the Execution Environment for the AWX

Below are my code:

**execution-environment.yml**

```auto
version: 3

images:
  base_image:
    name: quay.io/ansible/ansible-runner:stable-2.12-latest

dependencies:
  python: requirements.txt
  system: bindep.txt
  galaxy: requirements.yml

additional_build_steps:
  prepend_base: |
    ENV ANSIBLE_GALAXY_SERVER=https://galaxy.ansible.com
    ENV ANSIBLE_GALAXY_DISABLE_GPG_VERIFY=1
    RUN sed -i 's/mirrorlist/#mirrorlist/g' /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-*
    RUN sed -i 's|#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org|baseurl=http://vault.centos.org|g' /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-*
    RUN rpm --import https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc
    RUN curl -sL https://packages.microsoft.com/config/rhel/8/prod.repo -o /etc/yum.repos.d/microsoft.repo
    RUN yum -y install gcc python3-devel openssl-devel krb5-devel azure-cli && yum clean all

  append_final: |
    RUN pwsh -Command "Install-Module -Name Az -Repository PSGallery -Force -Scope AllUsers -AllowClobber"

```

**bindep.txt**

```auto
# Required for building Python packages
gcc
python3-devel [platform:rpm compile]
libffi-devel [platform:rpm]
openssl-devel [platform:rpm]
make [platform:rpm]

# Azure CLI and SDK support
azure-cli

# Optional but useful tools
git
powershell

```

**requirements.txt**

```auto
# Core Ansible + Azure dependencies
ansible=8.5.0
ansible-core>=2.15.6
# ansible[azure]

# Core Azure libraries
azure-identity
azure-common
azure-cli-core
msrestazure
azure-storage-blob
azure-keyvault-secrets

# Remote Windows management
pypsrp==0.8.1

# Packaging tools (keep updated to avoid build issues)
pip>=25.0.1
setuptools>=65.0.0
wheel>=0.38.0

# Security / crypto fixes
cryptography==38.0.4
pyOpenSSL>=23.2.0
urllib3<1.27

# Fix for ansible-runner version conflict
ansible-runner>=2.3.0

```

**requirements.yml**

```auto
---
collections:
  - name: community.general
    version: "8.5.0"
    source: https://galaxy.ansible.com
  - name: awx.awx
    version: "23.3.0"
    source: https://galaxy.ansible.com  
  - name: azure.azcollection
    version: "3.8.0"
    source: https://galaxy.ansible.com
  - name: ansible.posix
    version: "1.5.4"
    source: https://galaxy.ansible.com 
  - name: ansible.windows
    version: "1.14.0"
    source: https://galaxy.ansible.com
  - name: community.windows
    version: "1.12.0"
    source: https://galaxy.ansible.com

```

I am pulling these from a github repository and running the below command from one of the Linux Virtual Machine (hosted on Azure)

Command that I am running to Build an Image -  
ansible-builder build -t ops\_awx\_ee\_azure:latest -f execution-environment.yml --no-cache

Here is the Error that I am getting:

```auto
File context/_build/requirements.yml had modifications and will be rewritten
File context/_build/requirements.txt had modifications and will be rewritten
Running command:
  podman build -f context/Containerfile -t ops_awx_ee_azure:v2 --no-cache context
...showing last 20 lines of output...
--> 0227da24e95b
[2/4] STEP 9/13: COPY _build /build
--> 47c17eb49b93
[2/4] STEP 10/13: WORKDIR /build
--> 8d0700a96b00
[2/4] STEP 11/13: RUN mkdir -p /usr/share/ansible
--> 37c989d999b6
[2/4] STEP 12/13: RUN ansible-galaxy role install $ANSIBLE_GALAXY_CLI_ROLE_OPTS -r requirements.yml --roles-path "/usr/share/ansible/roles"
Skipping install, no requirements found
--> 2144df9ccd9d
[2/4] STEP 13/13: RUN ANSIBLE_GALAXY_DISABLE_GPG_VERIFY=1 ansible-galaxy collection install $ANSIBLE_GALAXY_CLI_COLLECTION_OPTS -r requirements.yml --collections-path "/usr/share/a
nsible/collections"
Starting galaxy collection install process
Process install dependency map
[WARNING]: Skipping Galaxy server https://galaxy.ansible.com/api/. Got an
unexpected error when getting available versions of collection
community.general: '/api/v3/plugin/ansible/content/published/collections/index/
community/general/versions/'
ERROR! Unexpected Exception, this is probably a bug: '/api/v3/plugin/ansible/content/published/collections/index/community/general/versions/'
to see the full traceback, use -vvv
Error: building at STEP "RUN ANSIBLE_GALAXY_DISABLE_GPG_VERIFY=1 ansible-galaxy collection install $ANSIBLE_GALAXY_CLI_COLLECTION_OPTS -r requirements.yml --collections-path "/usr/
share/ansible/collections"": while running runtime: exit status 250

An error occurred (rc=250), see output line(s) above for details.

```

Could you please help me As soon as possible as we are stuck from many days trying many things?

Thank you in advance.

Thanks & Regards,  
Suhas Chandrashekar

- Set at least one tag (the experts follow the tags, so the right people will find you if you tag)
- awx
- galaxy-ng

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**Author:** ![shrews](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/shrews/32/10142_2.png) [@shrews](https://forum.ansible.com/u/shrews)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2025, 4:25pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/error-during-building-the-execution-environment-for-the-awx/44492/2 "2025-09-15T16:25:40Z")

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> [@Suhas\_Chandrashekar](#):
>
> `quay.io/ansible/ansible-runner:stable-2.12-latest`

Choose another base image. This one is VERY old and should not be used. You’ll want a RHEL-ish image (RHEL, fedora, centos, etc.) with a recent-ish Python.

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**Author:** ![Suhas\_Chandrashekar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Suhas\_Chandrashekar](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Suhas_Chandrashekar)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2025, 4:40pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/error-during-building-the-execution-environment-for-the-awx/44492/3 "2025-09-15T16:40:00Z")

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Hello @shrews ,  
Thanks for your response. Could you please suggest any such image that I can give a try?

Does the other things like- execution-environment.yml, requirements.txt and requirements.yml looks Okay?

Thank you.

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**Author:** ![shrews](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/shrews/32/10142_2.png) [@shrews](https://forum.ansible.com/u/shrews)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2025, 5:41pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/error-during-building-the-execution-environment-for-the-awx/44492/4 "2025-09-15T17:41:13Z")

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I won’t select one for you as there are many images that will work. The [EE documentation](https://ansible.readthedocs.io/projects/builder/en/latest/definition/) has some examples you can select from, but there even more recent versions of those (and many unlisted) that you can search for and experiment with.

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**Author:** ![Suhas\_Chandrashekar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Suhas\_Chandrashekar](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Suhas_Chandrashekar)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2025, 7:30pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/error-during-building-the-execution-environment-for-the-awx/44492/5 "2025-09-15T19:30:10Z")

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hi @shrews ,  
Thanks. I tried both -quay.io/rockylinux/rockylinux:9 and [docker.io/redhat/ubi9:latest](http://docker.io/redhat/ubi9:latest)..

But getting this error consistently.

```auto
Running command:
  podman build -f context/Containerfile -t ops_awx_ee_azure:latest --no-cache context
...showing last 20 lines of output...
      Successfully uninstalled ansible-core-2.14.3
Successfully installed PyJWT-2.10.1 adal-1.2.7 aiohappyeyeballs-2.6.1 aiohttp-3.12.15 aiosignal-1.4.0 ansible-8.5.0 ansible-core-2.15.13 anyio-4.10.0 applicationinsights-0.11.10 ar
gcomplete-3.5.3 async-timeout-5.0.1 attrs-25.3.0 awxkit-24.6.1 azure-cli-core-2.75.0 azure-cli-telemetry-1.1.0 azure-common-1.1.28 azure-containerregistry-1.2.0 azure-core-1.31.0 a
zure-identity-1.19.0 azure-iot-hub-2.6.1 azure-keyvault-4.2.0 azure-keyvault-certificates-4.10.0 azure-keyvault-keys-4.11.0 azure-keyvault-secrets-4.10.0 azure-keyvault-securitydom
ain-1.0.0b1 azure-mgmt-apimanagement-4.0.1 azure-mgmt-authorization-4.0.0 azure-mgmt-automation-1.1.0b4 azure-mgmt-batch-17.3.0 azure-mgmt-cdn-13.1.1 azure-mgmt-compute-33.0.0 azur
e-mgmt-containerinstance-10.1.0 azure-mgmt-containerregistry-10.3.0 azure-mgmt-containerservice-32.1.0 azure-mgmt-core-1.4.0 azure-mgmt-cosmosdb-10.0.0b3 azure-mgmt-datafactory-9.0
.0 azure-mgmt-devtestlabs-10.0.0b2 azure-mgmt-dns-8.1.0 azure-mgmt-eventhub-11.1.0 azure-mgmt-hdinsight-9.1.0b1 azure-mgmt-iothub-3.0.0 azure-mgmt-keyvault-10.3.1 azure-mgmt-logana
lytics-13.0.0b7 azure-mgmt-managedservices-7.0.0b2 azure-mgmt-managementgroups-1.1.0b2 azure-mgmt-marketplaceordering-1.2.0b2 azure-mgmt-monitor-6.0.2 azure-mgmt-mysqlflexibleserve
rs-1.0.0b3 azure-mgmt-network-28.0.0 azure-mgmt-notificationhubs-8.1.0b1 azure-mgmt-nspkg-3.0.2 azure-mgmt-postgresqlflexibleservers-1.1.0 azure-mgmt-privatedns-1.2.0 azure-mgmt-rd
bms-10.2.0b17 azure-mgmt-recoveryservices-3.0.0 azure-mgmt-recoveryservicesbackup-9.1.0 azure-mgmt-redis-14.4.0 azure-mgmt-resource-23.2.0 azure-mgmt-resourcegraph-8.0.0 azure-mgmt
-resourcehealth-1.0.0b6 azure-mgmt-search-9.2.0b2 azure-mgmt-servicebus-8.2.1 azure-mgmt-sql-4.0.0b19 azure-mgmt-storage-21.2.1 azure-mgmt-trafficmanager-1.1.0 azure-mgmt-web-7.3.1
 azure-nspkg-3.0.2 azure-servicebus-7.14.2 azure-storage-blob-12.23.0b1 certifi-2025.8.3 cryptography-38.0.4 exceptiongroup-1.3.0 frozenlist-1.7.0 h11-0.16.0 h2-4.3.0 hpack-4.1.0 h
ttpcore-1.0.9 httpx-0.28.1 humanfriendly-10.0 hyperframe-6.1.0 importlib-resources-5.0.7 isodate-0.7.2 jmespath-1.0.1 jsonschema-4.25.1 jsonschema-specifications-2025.9.1 knack-0.1
1.0 microsoft-kiota-abstractions-1.9.7 microsoft-kiota-authentication-azure-1.9.7 microsoft-kiota-http-1.9.7 microsoft-kiota-serialization-form-1.9.7 microsoft-kiota-serialization-
json-1.9.7 microsoft-kiota-serialization-multipart-1.9.7 microsoft-kiota-serialization-text-1.9.7 microsoft-security-utilities-secret-masker-1.0.0b4 msal-1.33.0b1 msal-extensions-1
.2.0 msgraph-core-1.3.8 msgraph-sdk-1.6.0 msrest-0.7.1 msrestazure-0.6.4.post1 multidict-6.6.4 netaddr-1.3.0 numpy-2.0.2 oauthlib-3.3.1 opentelemetry-api-1.37.0 opentelemetry-sdk-1
.37.0 opentelemetry-semantic-conventions-0.58b0 oras-0.2.38 pandas-2.3.2 pip-25.2 pkginfo-1.12.1.2 portalocker-2.10.1 propcache-0.3.2 psutil-7.0.0 py-deviceid-0.1.1 pyOpenSSL-23.2.
0 pygments-2.19.2 pypsrp-0.8.1 pyspnego-0.12.0 python-dateutil-2.9.0.post0 pytz-2025.2 referencing-0.36.2 requests-oauthlib-2.0.0 rpds-py-0.27.1 setuptools-80.9.0 sniffio-1.3.1 std
-uritemplate-2.0.5 tabulate-0.9.0 typing-extensions-4.15.0 tzdata-2025.2 uamqp-1.6.11 wheel-0.45.1 xmltodict-1.0.0 yarl-1.20.1
WARNING: Running pip as the 'root' user can result in broken permissions and conflicting behaviour with the system package manager. It is recommended to use a virtual environment i
nstead: https://pip.pypa.io/warnings/venv
+ cp /tmp/src/requirements.txt /output/requirements.txt
++ wc -l
++ ls -1 '/output/wheels/*whl'
+ '[' 0 -gt 0 ']'
+ '[' -z ']'
+ /usr/bin/dnf clean all
Updating Subscription Management repositories.
Unable to read consumer identity

This system is not registered with an entitlement server. You can use subscription-manager to register.

32 files removed
+ rm -rf /var/cache/dnf /var/cache/yum
+ rm -rf /var/lib/dnf/history.sqlite /var/lib/dnf/history.sqlite-shm /var/lib/dnf/history.sqlite-wal
+ rm -rf /var/log/dnf.librepo.log /var/log/dnf.log /var/log/dnf.rpm.log /var/log/hawkey.log
+ rm -rf /tmp/venv
Error: committing container for step {Env:[PKGMGR_PRESERVE_CACHE= ANSIBLE_GALAXY_CLI_COLLECTION_OPTS= ANSIBLE_GALAXY_CLI_ROLE_OPTS= ANSIBLE_INSTALL_REFS=ansible-core==2.14.3 ansibl
e-runner PKGMGR=/usr/bin/dnf EE_BASE_IMAGE=docker.io/redhat/ubi9:latest PYCMD=/usr/bin/python3 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin container=oci PIP_B
REAK_SYSTEM_PACKAGES=1 ANSIBLE_GALAXY_SERVER=https://galaxy.ansible.com ANSIBLE_GALAXY_DISABLE_GPG_VERIFY=1] Command:run Args:[/output/scripts/assemble] Flags:[] Attrs:map[] Messag
e:RUN /output/scripts/assemble Heredocs:[] Original:RUN /output/scripts/assemble}: copying layers and metadata for container "60bef6b750c2f6bd753adb318c3ecaaa1a4194e700b3aed7518995
1625555097": initializing source containers-storage:80e5f68ab76f-working-container: storing layer "5e98ee6578088bc476b8d77b28757c522ded3ae39f3ce406c33f84fc47e7039c" to file: io: re
ad/write on closed pipe

An error occurred (rc=125), see output line(s) above for details.
[root@apsocloudapp01 ops-awx-ee]# 
[root@apsocloudapp01 ops-awx-ee]# podman system reset -f
 A "/etc/containers/storage.conf" config file exists.
Remove this file if you did not modify the configuration.

```

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**Post date:** [September 16, 2025, 1:37pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/error-during-building-the-execution-environment-for-the-awx/44492/6 "2025-09-16T13:37:30Z")

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That’s an error from podman (during `podman build`), not from `ansible-builder` itself. Possibly something wrong with podman or your system. I can’t tell you what is wrong from that error message. Maybe try building on a different machine.

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**Author:** ![watsonb](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/watsonb/32/309_2.png) [@watsonb](https://forum.ansible.com/u/watsonb)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2025, 5:22pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/error-during-building-the-execution-environment-for-the-awx/44492/7 "2025-09-16T17:22:50Z")

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You may want to increase the verbosity of the `galaxy` install command. You can add something like the following in your `execution-environment.yml` file:

```yaml
version: 3
build_arg_defaults:
  ANSIBLE_GALAXY_CLI_COLLECTION_OPTS: "-c -vvv"

```

`-c` ignores SSL certificate errors (not sure if your Azure machine building the EE trusts [galaxy.ansible.com](http://galaxy.ansible.com)).

`-vvv` increases the verbosity to the maximum (for the `ansible-galaxy` command)