# Running remote playbooks

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/running-remote-playbooks/34551>\
**Category:** AWX Project\
**Tags:** awx\
**Created:** [February 1, 2021, 2:15pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/running-remote-playbooks/34551 "2021-02-01T14:15:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ethan\_Sowell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/aeb1de/32.png) [@Ethan\_Sowell](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Ethan_Sowell)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2021, 2:15pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/running-remote-playbooks/34551/1 "2021-02-01T14:15:51Z")

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So I am pretty new to AWX and ansible in general and had a question. I have a situation where I have cloned the AWX repo into the /tmp/ folder on a remote docker swarm container. I want to run AWX from there and want to run the playbook from my local the same way I run the playbook to setup the docker swarm environment. I thought that using _import\_playbook_ would work, but it only seems to search the local and not the remote and doesn’t seem to support any other parameters, like _remote\_src_. This seems liek this is something that should be possible and I believe I am just not knowledgeable enough to figure it out yet. Any advice would be appreciated.