# Migration from Ansible tower to AWX

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/migration-from-ansible-tower-to-awx/35258>\
**Category:** AWX Project\
**Tags:** awx\
**Created:** [May 31, 2021, 9:25am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/migration-from-ansible-tower-to-awx/35258 "2021-05-31T09:25:15Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 9\
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**Author:** ![Munesh\_Reddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Munesh\_Reddy](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Munesh_Reddy)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2021, 9:25am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/migration-from-ansible-tower-to-awx/35258/1 "2021-05-31T09:25:15Z")

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Hi,

Can anyone help me how can we migrate from Ansible tower to AWX

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**Author:** ![Munesh\_Reddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Munesh\_Reddy](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Munesh_Reddy)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2021, 7:22am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/migration-from-ansible-tower-to-awx/35258/2 "2021-06-01T07:22:48Z")

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Can anyone help me here

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**Author:** ![Wei-Yen\_Tan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/wei-yen_tan/32/4111_2.png) [@Wei-Yen\_Tan](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Wei-Yen_Tan)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2021, 8:15am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/migration-from-ansible-tower-to-awx/35258/3 "2021-06-01T08:15:43Z")

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In regards to what? Yoy want to export all data from tower to awx? If that’s the case look at export import.

[https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-tower/latest/html/towercli/examples.html](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-tower/latest/html/towercli/examples.html)

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**Author:** ![Munesh\_Reddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Munesh\_Reddy](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Munesh_Reddy)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2021, 10:25am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/migration-from-ansible-tower-to-awx/35258/4 "2021-06-01T10:25:25Z")

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Yeah… to export all the data from ansible tower to AWX and can you please let me know about cost of migration and time period for migration ?

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**Author:** ![Wei-Yen\_Tan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/wei-yen_tan/32/4111_2.png) [@Wei-Yen\_Tan](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Wei-Yen_Tan)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2021, 10:51am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/migration-from-ansible-tower-to-awx/35258/5 "2021-06-01T10:51:49Z")

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What do yoy mean cost

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**Author:** ![Munesh\_Reddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Munesh\_Reddy](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Munesh_Reddy)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2021, 11:04am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/migration-from-ansible-tower-to-awx/35258/6 "2021-06-01T11:04:39Z")

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Will Redhat charges for migrating from Ansible tower to AWX ?  
If i start migration how much time it takes for complete migration

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**Author:** ![Wei-Yen\_Tan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/wei-yen_tan/32/4111_2.png) [@Wei-Yen\_Tan](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Wei-Yen_Tan)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2021, 11:11am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/migration-from-ansible-tower-to-awx/35258/7 "2021-06-01T11:11:57Z")

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No they don’t charge. It is part of the awx api.

In regards to your second question. Depends on how many objects you have. In addition of won’t send over your credentials

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**Author:** ![Munesh\_Reddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Munesh\_Reddy](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Munesh_Reddy)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2021, 6:29am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/migration-from-ansible-tower-to-awx/35258/8 "2021-06-02T06:29:22Z")

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Hi,  
Do we need to make any changes in playbooks which we used in Ansible tower after we migrate to AWX

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**Author:** ![Wei-Yen\_Tan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/wei-yen_tan/32/4111_2.png) [@Wei-Yen\_Tan](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Wei-Yen_Tan)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2021, 6:30am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/migration-from-ansible-tower-to-awx/35258/9 "2021-06-02T06:30:18Z")

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Possible. Because they are based on collections. I would suggest you experiment
