How to build Ansible AWX in Docker containers? AWX is the Open Source upstream project of the Ansible Automation Controller, included in the Ansible Automation Platform (formerly Ansible Tower). Running in Docker containers to use the modern web-UI and API interface. Running in Docker containers is recommended only for experienced users and developers. I’m Luca Berton and welcome to today’s episode of Ansible Pilot. Ansible AWX Ansible AWX supports only the x86_64 operating system: - Fedora (maintained versions) - Ubuntu LTS (20.04 or 22.04) - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8+, CentOS Stream 8+ - macOS 11 Ansible AWX is the upstream project of Ansible Automation Controller (formerly Ansible Tower), providing a modern web-UI and API interface to manage Ansible Playbooks, inventories, Credentials, and Vaults between your team in your organization. Running AWX in local Docker containers allows you to test the AWX web-UI and API to manage Ansible Playbook execution easily. AWX run on Docker is considered for Testing or Development only; the preferred way is via the AWX Operator since version 18.0. This initial configuration sometimes is a roadblock for some Ansible AWX users. Links - [Installing AWX](https://github.com/ansible/awx/blob/devel/INSTALL.md) Playbook How to Build Ansible AWX in Docker containers. I’m going to show you how to build the latest Ansible AWX in the latest Fedora using Docker containers and the latest receptor image. The additional software must be installed: - OpenSSL library - Ansible - Docker Please note that the latest Docker technology should be installed in the target system, the Docker service must be started, and the current user added to the docker group. Also, the latest docker-compose Python module must be installed for a successful installation. How to build the Ansible AWX Base Container Image and download the latest Ansible Receptor Image. Clone the latest stable tag Ansible AWX repository ```bash git clone -b x.y.z https://github.com/ansible/awx.git ``` Substitute **x.y.z** with the latest release version number (for example, 21.5.0). Configure the inventory (optional) You can customize the inventory parameters pg_password, broadcast_websocket_secret, secret_key, and any other settings you need for your deployment. The Ansible AWX Base Container Image build the AWX Base Container Image. ```bash $ make docker-compose-build ``` This command builds the AWX base container image (it takes a while and connects to the internet to download dependencies, packages, and libraries). After successful execution the docker images the command shows you a new ansible/awx_devel image: ```bash [lberton@ansible awx]$ docker images REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED SIZE ghcr.io/ansible/awx_devel HEAD 4d593fc25fc2 21 hours ago 1.8GB ``` 2. The Ansible Receptor Image Download the Receptor Image The process also downloads the latest devel image from the receptor. V