# How to deal with galaxy.ansible.com downtime?

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-deal-with-galaxy-ansible-com-downtime/36426>\
**Category:** AWX Project\
**Tags:** awx, galaxy-ng\
**Created:** [March 11, 2022, 2:15pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-deal-with-galaxy-ansible-com-downtime/36426 "2022-03-11T14:15:45Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Michael\_Kebe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Michael\_Kebe](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_Kebe)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2022, 2:15pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-deal-with-galaxy-ansible-com-downtime/36426/1 "2022-03-11T14:15:45Z")

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We are using awx for our ansible deployment.

It happens from time to time that [galaxy.ansible.com](http://galaxy.ansible.com) is down.

We encountered situations like this:

1. Change some ansible playbooks/roles and sync the project in awx
2. The “Source Control Update” fails in the task “fetch galaxy roles from requirements.(yml/yaml)” (timeout), because [galaxy.ansible.com](http://galaxy.ansible.com) is down
3. Now it is not possible to run any job templates of this project

How should we deal with this problem?

We enabled Update Revision on Launch in the project to get new playbooks/roles and possibly new roles (requirements.yml) and set the Cache Timeout to 3600.

Michael

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**Author:** ![Martin\_Gabriel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a87d85/32.png) [@Martin\_Gabriel](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Martin_Gabriel)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2022, 5:58pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-deal-with-galaxy-ansible-com-downtime/36426/2 "2022-03-12T17:58:34Z")

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Hello,

i used workaround to bypass galaxy API by directly download collections from GIT… We used something like this in requirements `collections/requirements.yml`:

Original:

```auto
collections:

- openstack.cloud

- community.general
- community.mysql

- community.proxysql

```

Workaround:

```auto

collections:
- name: https://opendev.org/openstack/ansible-collections-openstack
type: git
- name: https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general
type: git
- name: https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.mysql
type: git
- name: https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.proxysql
type: git

```

Dne pátek 11. března 2022 v 15:15:45 UTC+1 uživatel [michae...@gmail.com](mailto:michae...@gmail.com) napsal:

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**Author:** ![Michael\_Kebe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Michael\_Kebe](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_Kebe)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2022, 12:44pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-deal-with-galaxy-ansible-com-downtime/36426/3 "2022-03-18T12:44:51Z")

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Thanks for the reply.

We will try.

Too bad, [galaxy.ansible.com](http://galaxy.ansible.com) is partially down right now…

Greetings  
Michael