# Newbie Question

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/newbie-question/37745>\
**Category:** AWX Project\
**Tags:** awx\
**Created:** [March 8, 2023, 7:26pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/newbie-question/37745 "2023-03-08T19:26:54Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![beda392](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/df705f/32.png) [@beda392](https://forum.ansible.com/u/beda392)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2023, 7:26pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/newbie-question/37745/1 "2023-03-08T19:26:54Z")

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How does AWX execution environments know what roles the playbook I’m running needs? I have many custom roles and collections that my playbooks will need and I’m trying to set it up to have access to these.

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**Author:** ![Walter\_Rowe](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/walter_rowe/32/4506_2.png) [@Walter\_Rowe](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Walter_Rowe)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2023, 7:30pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/newbie-question/37745/2 "2023-03-08T19:30:49Z")

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Your repos that contain your playbooks should have a roles folder with a requirements.yml file inside it. Look at the requirements docs on the ansible docs web site. It has a defined format and they show examples.

Walter