AWX AND ANSIBLE TOWER / AUTOMATION PLATFORM - COMPREHENSIVE OVERVIEW TO RUN YOUR FIRST JOB!

Step by step walkthrough of how to configure your first project and job to successfully run a playbook using AWX. All of these configurations work on Ansible Tower / Automation Platform as well thanks to AWX being the upstream offering of them. This will NOT teach you how to deploy AWX.
How I deploy AWX fast using terraform, EKS, and a helm:
github.com/Josh-Tracy/Terrafo...
The repo I used as an example in this video:
github.com/Josh-Tracy/Ansible...
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0:00 - Intro
0:40 - AWX vs Ansible Tower / Automation Platform
2:00 - The dashboard
3:45 - AWX Organizations
5:30 - AWX Inventories and hosts
8:50 - AWX Credentials, ssh keys, github tokens
12:20 - AWX Projects
16:50 - AWX Templates Running the Playbook
26:20 - Jobs
26:50 - Schedules

[@rob280]

Well done. Logical walk through. The small errors made it even better, it helped me see the steps that were going on.

[@a5tr00]

Great video! My new devops project involves ansible , really comprehensive explanation! I like the fact you did not cut the video when there were failed execution of playbooks!

[@netconexxions]

Excellent video you took me from lost to dangerous in a very short time. Keep up the good work

[@Rhalt]

Thanks, immediately answered every question I had in my head.

[@juanzepeda4239]

Thx a lot for your efficiency in this tutorial. Kudos !

[@kaustubhdhavale5294]

Thanks for the tutorial. It was really helpful!

[@madsergalvin1]

Thanks for this very well explained :)

[@flauchatube]

Really good video. Thanks!!

[@Lines-In-The-Sand1]

Really great, informative video. Thank you.

[@aureliosilverio]

Nice video.Thanks man!!

[@chrismbah597]

Bro thanks so much the knowledge is amazing

[@UrsRau]

Thanks, this is very well done. Watched quite a few of these AWX or Tower clips already but your's made it all come together real quickly. Very well structured. Thanks. Next beginner question is, can I 'easily' import an already deployed ansibkle setup that is on a vm in it's filesystem, i.e. not in a git repo as such?

[@arcticape445]

Thanks for the walkthrough! This was very useful for someone learning Ansible in general

[@gerrymaddock9234]

Great video, thanks. Any chance you could do something with creating execution environments?

[@mikecmw8492]

Hi. We have a ton of templates in our system. All of these template use "Extra Variables." Does tower have the ability to search through specific fields over all templates for strings? So if a few templates are configuring an aws bucket "testbucket" we could search through all templates for "testbucket"?

[@andrewreeves9492]

nice overview of AWX thanks, oh and MOTD = Message of the Day, not mode 👍

[@shyamakrishna708]

Great video .. well explained about each component .. Thank you

[@TheSudo]

You are welcome!

[@joshnachbar3779]

How did you do the motion graphics?

[@oraclecore4702]

Hi Tracy, It's really a good stuff. But i am following same steps i got the same issue like the source control credentials for git is not available. What you done to get that credentials.

[@devopssimon]

Thanks for the video. I access my hosts using a SSH Key, each host has a different SSH Key, but in AWX templates I can only select a single credential, is there a work around for this?

[@atbuiquoc4467]

Hi, I have a question, would be happy if you can answer. I'm running Awx playbook to manage windows hosts, but I need to run the playbook with admin role. How can I run the playbook without providing AWX the Administrator account infor( just enable admin role for my user account) ?

[@john_northrup]

Great video ❤, just one small thing… “motd” stands for “message of the day”, not “mode of the day”.

[@TheSudo]

You’re right. I think I had a long day 🫣

[@sharanyavaish5]

Hi i have a question, when elevating user privilege, On server, did you make root password less when normal user tries to switch to root user ?

[@davitgurgenidze9598]

Thanks!

[@cloudnixiass]

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[@ericwilkins4945]

I have installed AWX 3 times, edited "env" for root project path, reloaded pod and I still cannot get ANY of my playbooks to show in AWX from /var/lib/awx/projects/playbooks". What in the hell am I missing on Ubuntu?

[@vladoportos]

Nice, to the point, no BS around...

[@LavaHotMan]

Good video. On the next one, please increase the text size in your browser as at times things were almost entirely illegible at this resolution.

[@mbumboh8368]

Greate video thanks. Can you make a specific video to Automate rds database ( oracle ms sql ) backup to s3 bucket?

[@PerryCodes]

Aww man... so close to being what I was looking for. Then I discovered you're using AWS. Is that really what most people are using for their AWX platform? I wouldn't think so. I'm having issues getting SSH working from K3S (which I Know absolutely nothing about...). The scenario demonstrated here simply gets handed a private key during the AWS provisioning... I wasn't so lucky and don't have a clue how/where to get a key when using AWX Operator on Kubernetes.

[@MarsTheProgrammer]

no matter what i do the projects all fail to sync. Even the default git project there is in failed state. The error is EE credential is too weak...

[@sahilgulati6995]

Thanks this is a good video but only issue I see is your voice is low when I am on mac inbuilt speaker, rest its a good video to get started with awx

[@youdontneedtoknow1154]

MOTD stands for "message of the day".

[@PerryCodes]

Also.. to say Automation Platform is simply AWX with Red Hat's logo is leaving out the same thing that you conveniently left out of this video. I've seen Automation Platform installed on a server and it was MASSIVELY MORE SIMPLE than what you need to go through to install AWX. Operator makes things easier than the Docker install (which plain SUCKS and leaves you needing meds at the end of the process), but then you need to either 1) understand Kubernetes to a degree or 2) be okay with NOT knowing Kubernetes and hope that nothing ever goes wrong and you never require advanced features.

[@lucaspolo9010]

Neverletthemknowyournextmove