I’m being asked quite frequently, e.g. during AWX trainings I give, whether there’s a future for AWX. The project itself notes on the main repository: The last release of this repository was released on Jul 2, 2024. Releases of this project are now paused during a large scale refactoring. There’…

When we first announced our plans to streamline AWX releases , we made it clear that our goal isn’t to offer an exact replica of our commercial product for free. Instead we want to define the future of AWX with input and direct collaboration from the community. Forgive my skepticism, but it sounds…

Sorry but when you say Ansible here do you mean ansible-core or the ansible community package, as in pip install ansible?

Both, but most especially core.

I’m struggling a little to find a way to give this the emphasis that it deserves but, basically, I cannot envision any way that there would be drastic changes to releases for either of those projects. :grinning_face: Edit to clarify my meaning.

[image] oranod: I cannot envision any way that there would be drastic changes to releases for either of those projects. :grinning_face: Good. I’ll write off AWX-as-local-Tower as a short-lived experiment (with a tinge of sadness), and maybe recommend people go back to Jenkins again if they w…

My 2c here is writing anything off might be somewhat premature. The ask for the community to help define the future of AWX is genuine. From the other post: When Red Hat initially open sourced the Tower codebase as AWX, there had been little to no community development or input. Now that we’re done…

I hope you dont mind me asking. What makes you possibly recommend people going (back) to Jenkins instead of keep using AWX?

Maybe we’re odd, but we use AWX, Jenkins, and gitlab runners. We have git hooks that start Jenkins jobs that fire off Ansible jobs, and AWX jobs that reach out the Jenkins. I see no compelling reasons to drop any of those tools…

@BoerBart I guess for > 95% of non-(enterprise|large organization) usage using something like Jenkins or Buildbot with maybe ARA (for nicer logs) is totally sufficient from a functionality point of view. If you have a GitLab instance, you can also use GitLab CI (+ ARA). Such a setup is easier to set…

Thanks, that gives me a nice insight from your point of view. I’ve introduced Ansible AWX in combination with GitLab (which was barely used at my department) to get rid of a ton of manual labour, which is still very much in the works, but does a great job already. Maybe there’s a good reason to swit…

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Incrediblestorm (Greg Zelt) February 23, 2026, 12:45pm 71

No one had a “pleasant” first time. lol

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