# Question regarding migrating from ansible tower production environment to testing awx environment **URL:** \ **Category:** AWX Project\ **Tags:** awx, kubernetes\ **Created:** [August 28, 2022, 9:46pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/question-regarding-migrating-from-ansible-tower-production-environment-to-testing-awx-environment/37043 "2022-08-28T21:46:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![rake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8e8cbc/32.png) [@rake](https://forum.ansible.com/u/rake)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2022, 9:46pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/question-regarding-migrating-from-ansible-tower-production-environment-to-testing-awx-environment/37043/1 "2022-08-28T21:46:35Z")
Hi Team, We usually maintain production environment of ansible tower on virtual machines and there is a team that has organization under which it has credentials/projects/inventories/templates and notification templates. They stood up a test AWX instance in K8s they would like to use ansible tower for production but they would like to test few things in AWX in K8s but they want to have there organization credentials/projects/inventories/templates and notification templates migrated/replicated to awx so that way they can test few things and replicate them in production ansible tower in future. Any ideas/documentation would be grateful. Thanks, Rakesh Boinapally ---
**Author:** ![rake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8e8cbc/32.png) [@rake](https://forum.ansible.com/u/rake)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2022, 4:19pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/question-regarding-migrating-from-ansible-tower-production-environment-to-testing-awx-environment/37043/2 "2022-08-30T16:19:40Z")
Any Help would be much appreciated Thanks, Rakesh Boinapally ---
**Author:** ![AWX\_Project](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eada6e/32.png) [@AWX\_Project](https://forum.ansible.com/u/AWX_Project)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2022, 2:36pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/question-regarding-migrating-from-ansible-tower-production-environment-to-testing-awx-environment/37043/3 "2022-08-31T14:36:04Z")
There is no direct correlation from AWX to Controller so you can’t migrate the database or anything like that. You could look into either the awxkit CLI or look at the awx.awx collection. awxkit CLI has import/export features which may allow you to migrate assets between the two instances assuming AWX and Controller are close enough in feature parity. There have been other threads on the mailing list regarding migrating between different versions of AWX that may also help you. -The AWX Team ---
**Author:** ![rake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8e8cbc/32.png) [@rake](https://forum.ansible.com/u/rake)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2022, 3:48pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/question-regarding-migrating-from-ansible-tower-production-environment-to-testing-awx-environment/37043/4 "2022-08-31T15:48:10Z")
Thanks for the reply I have question on this tower-cli example below this is going to copy everything from one host to another host.Does tower-cli provide option like copy assets associated with one particular organization in awx to another awx host # Copy all assets from one instance to another $ tower-cli receive --tower-host [tower1.example.com](http://tower1.example.com) --all | tower-cli send --tower-host [tower2.example.com](http://tower2.example.com) ---
**Author:** ![AWX\_Project](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eada6e/32.png) [@AWX\_Project](https://forum.ansible.com/u/AWX_Project)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2022, 5:24pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/question-regarding-migrating-from-ansible-tower-production-environment-to-testing-awx-environment/37043/5 "2022-09-02T17:24:02Z")
You may try the awxkit import/export (or awx collection) instead of tower-cli (which is deprecated). awxkit does allow you to export particular resources AWX Team ---
**Author:** ![AWX\_Project](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eada6e/32.png) [@AWX\_Project](https://forum.ansible.com/u/AWX_Project)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2022, 5:25pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/question-regarding-migrating-from-ansible-tower-production-environment-to-testing-awx-environment/37043/6 "2022-09-02T17:25:51Z")
here are the docs for awxkit [https://docs.ansible.com/automation-controller/latest/html/controllercli/index.html](https://docs.ansible.com/automation-controller/latest/html/controllercli/index.html)