mitchdost / awx-ee

Custom AWX execution environment

thedatabaseme AWX EE

This repository contains building instructions for a self-build AWX execution environment. To find detailed instructions and information about why to use your own build EE might be a good idea, you can find a blog article of me here.

Build instructions

To build this execution environment image by yourself (you can also use the image that is linked to this repository), follow the steps below.

You need to have ansible-builder installed on your building machine. You can do so by the following command:

pip install ansible-builder

Clone this repository to a location of your choice and trigger the ansible-builder command to build yourself a container image.

ansible-builder build --tag thedatabaseme/awx-ee:0.0.1 --container-runtime docker -f execution-environment.yml

If you run podman as your container runtime on your system, you can leave out the --container-runtime option cause podman is the default CR.

Local testing

After building, you may want to test your locally build image. You can do so by creating a container and shelling into it:

docker run -it --rm thedatabaseme/awx-ee /bin/bash

You can check for the installed collections and versions then:

ansible-galaxy collection list

Ansible Collections included in this image

The following collections are included in this EE image. I plan to pin the versions of them to give more stability to this build:

awx.awx
azure.azcollection
amazon.aws
theforeman.foreman
google.cloud
openstack.cloud
community.general
community.vmware
community.docker
ovirt.ovirt
kubernetes.core
ansible.posix
ansible.windows
redhatinsights.insights

Disclaimer

Most of code I (re)used from the official AWX EE project here. So shoutout to them as well.