# How is automation\_job pod receives an associated project content

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-is-automation-job-pod-receives-an-associated-project-content/37270>\
**Category:** AWX Project\
**Created:** [October 27, 2022, 9:10am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-is-automation-job-pod-receives-an-associated-project-content/37270 "2022-10-27T09:10:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![Viktor\_Lutskevich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/6bbea6/32.png) [@Viktor\_Lutskevich](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Viktor_Lutskevich)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2022, 9:10am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-is-automation-job-pod-receives-an-associated-project-content/37270/1 "2022-10-27T09:10:55Z")

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Hi! Look for any info about how is automation\_job pod receives an associated project content (and requirements\_roles from roles/requirements.yml).  
If project big (about ~300Mb) automation\_job pod doesn’t start ~30 seconds after Source Control Update job is done.

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**Author:** ![AWX\_Project](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eada6e/32.png) [@AWX\_Project](https://forum.ansible.com/u/AWX_Project)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2022, 5:28pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-is-automation-job-pod-receives-an-associated-project-content/37270/2 "2022-10-28T17:28:27Z")

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the project contents are zipped up on the awx-task container and pushed to the automation\_job pod via Receptor. There it is unzipped and ansible-runner is ran against that project folder.

There are other reasons the job start might be delayed, for example if it needs to pull the execution environment image.

Also, when a job is launched, there is a “project sync” (not the same as a project update) happening behind the scenes that can take some time to run, adding to this delay.

AWX Team