Issue with AWX EE and Connecting to vcenter

One thing I didn’t realize was that FIPS was being inherited form the host so just disabling it may not be as trivial. Ultimately I didn’t want to disable it permanently.

When building a stream9 EE I was able to get past the openssl s_client test with the following

  prepend_base:
    - RUN update-crypto-policies --set FIPS:NO-ENFORCE-EMS

sourced from: Reddit thread: RHEL9 and FIPS breaking SSSD

Though after that I was experiencing some other ssl related issues so I moved on to testing on el8.

In the end I was able to source a ‘ee-minimal-rhel8’ image that I was able to extend with the collections and python modules I needed and that worked perfectly.

I want to revisit building a full image from scratch but for now this has gotten me up and running again. Ultimately the issue was with el9 - fips and support for TLS 1.2 without EMS.

I feel like I learned a lot in the process so that’s always good…

Appreciate the guidance provided. Cheers!

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