Updating inventory from a source

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Hi AWX/Tower Community -

Having an issue with sourcing my inventory from a repository in Ansible Tower 3.5.3.

My inventories are stored in yaml files up in a repo. I have a project called “Repo - Inventories” that calls on that repo, but I have to manually update the project every time I make a change to the inventory, instead of it automatically updating when called upon.

Here are the settings I have for that project:

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Here are my settings for the inventory source:

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I would assume these settings would automatically update the inventory any time a template calls on it, but they are not. Does anyone know how can I get it so tower gets the latest inventory files when launching anything against my inventories based in source control?

Thanks in advance!

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In tower /awx ive never sourced my inventory from a repo. You do that through other means.

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I was under the impression this was a supported setup - How else would you store your inventory in source control?

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I don’t. I use the inventory in awx

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Then use inventory scripts or custom ones to dynamically pull it in

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I had a look for you.

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-tower/latest/html/administration/scm-inv-source.html

May apply to awx. I have a older build.

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Yes, I’ve used this with AWX and it works. It even merges several inventories as you can have several sources (file, script, etc) in that inventory.

Regards,

Nuno Jordão