Category: Ansible
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Configuring AWX to Retrieve Dynamic Inventory from Active Directory Using LDAP
This tutorial will guide you through the process of configuring AWX to obtain dynamic inventory from Active Directory (AD) via LDAP. Summary of Steps: Let’s dig deeper. From AWX web portal, go to Administration >> Credential Types >> click Add Create New Credential Type window, give a name, input configuration and injector configuration: Name: Microsoft…
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Ansible AWX running Projects from Github Repo
Continuous Integration/Continuous delivery (CI/CD) is the practice of automating the integration of code changes from multiple developers into a single codebase. It is a software development practice where the developers commit their work frequently to the central code repository (Github or Stash). Then there are automated tools that build the newly committed code and do…
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Creating a custom EE for AWX
Ansible Execution Environment (EE) is used in AWX and Redhat Tower stack as the container that runs jobs or tasks. EE executes a virtual environment (venv) which runs in the task Pod/Container as shown below: You can run into situations where you want to use certain ansible plugin which will require certain python dependencies and…
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Ansible AWX on Rocky Linux 9
For this article, I install a virtual machine with Rocky Linux 9.4 with hardware of 4CPU, 8GB of RAM and 40GB of hard drive space. Lets update and install some packages. Disable Selinux and firewall. Firewall we can enable later on. Install Kubernetes by running: For latest version (Sep 2025): use this: For latest version…