# Updating /etc/hosts on automation-job pods? **URL:** \ **Category:** AWX Project\ **Tags:** awx\ **Created:** [October 26, 2023, 5:58pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/updating-etc-hosts-on-automation-job-pods/38550 "2023-10-26T17:58:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![russellcecalabp](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/russellcecalabp/32/1544_2.png) [@russellcecalabp](https://forum.ansible.com/u/russellcecalabp)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2023, 5:58pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/updating-etc-hosts-on-automation-job-pods/38550/1 "2023-10-26T17:58:31Z")
Hi, I recently had to move my K3 cluster runnning AWX-operator. The IP addresses of my nodes had to change from 10.0.3.51, 10.0.3.52, 10.0.3.53 to 10.6.3.44, 10.6.3.45, 10.6.3.71. I updated hostAlias in my awx-demo deployment: 271 dnsPolicy: ClusterFirst 272 hostAliases: 273 - hostnames: 274 - [awx.bugfocus.com](http://awx.bugfocus.com) 275 ip: 10.6.3.44 276 initContainers: 277 - command: 278 - /bin/sh 279 - -c 280 - | 281 hostname=$MY\_POD\_NAME 282 receptor --cert-makereq bits=2048 commonname=$hostname dnsname=$hostname nodeid=$hostname outreq=/etc/receptor/tls/receptor.req outkey=/etc/receptor/tls/receptor.key 283 receptor --cert-signreq req=/etc/receptor/tls/receptor.req cacert=/etc/receptor/tls/ca/receptor-ca.crt cakey=/etc/receptor/tls/ca/receptor-ca.key outcert=/etc/receptor/tls/ receptor.crt verify=yes And added these commands to the initContainer value: cp /etc/hosts /etc/hosts.BU grep -v bugfocus /etc/hosts \> /tmp/hosts echo “10.6.3.44 awx [awx.bugfocus.com](http://awx.bugfocus.com)” \>\> /tmp/hosts cp /tmp/hosts /etc/hosts But still on my automation-job pods the /etc/hosts file has the old IP address. What can I do to correct the /etc/hosts when my automation-job pods get created?