Installation times using the awx-Operator

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I’ve been installing AWX using the AWX Operator on multiple servers with good resources and high speed internet, and the process consistently takes around 3 to 4 hours to complete. Is this expected behavior? If not, could someone please share how long the installation typically takes under normal conditions? If I’m doing something incorrectly during the process, I would appreciate any guidance or corrections.

I follow the installation instruction from the awx page on readthedocs:

Here are the steps I take:

  1. git clone GitHub - ansible/awx-operator: An Ansible AWX operator for Kubernetes built with Operator SDK and Ansible. 🤖

  2. cd awx-operator/

  3. git checkout tags/2.19.1

  4. export VERSION=2.19.1

  5. make deploy

  6. nano awx-demo.yml

---
apiVersion: awx.ansible.com/v1beta1
kind: AWX
metadata:
  name: awx-server
spec:
  service_type: nodeport
  1. kustomization.yaml
apiVersion: kustomize.config.k8s.io/v1beta1
kind: Kustomization
resources:
  # Find the latest tag here: https://github.com/ansible/awx-operator/releases
  - github.com/ansible/awx-operator/config/default?ref=2.19.1

# Set the image tags to match the git version from above
images:
  - name: quay.io/ansible/awx-operator
    newTag: 2.19.1

# Specify a custom namespace in which to install AWX
namespace: awx

Also I’ve tried with this kustomization.yaml

apiVersion: kustomize.config.k8s.io/v1beta1
kind: Kustomization
resources:
  - ./config/default
  - awx-demo.yml

# Set the image tags to match the git version from above
images:
  - name: quay.io/ansible/awx-operator
    newTag: 2.19.1

# Specify a custom namespace in which to install AWX
namespace: awx
  1. nano awxmeshingress-demo.yml
---
apiVersion: awx.ansible.com/v1alpha1
kind: AWXMeshIngress
metadata:
  name: awx-mesh-ingress-server
spec:
  deployment_name: awx-server
  1. kubectl config set-context --current --namespace=awx
  2. kubectl apply -k .
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I’d appreciate it if someone could tell me how long it typically takes you to install AWX using the AWX Operator.

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is the operator working as expected after the install completes? If so then you must be doing it right. Congratulations!

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Any idea how long it usually takes to install?

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On AKS, it took about 30 to 45 minutes I think, but that was with an external Postgres database, no idea how much installing the database adds.

You can follow the installation in another screen with

kubectl -n awx logs -f deployments/awx-operator-controller-manager