Create Ansible AWX Superuser in Docker: Admin Account Setup (Guide) — Video Tutorial

How to Create an Ansible AWX superuser in Docker containers? Ansible AWX superuser has the power to configure all the settings and has unlimited power inside the modern web-UI and API interface. I'm going to show you how to create your first superuser and how to use it. I'm Luca Berton and welcome to today's episode of Ansible Pilot. Links - [Ansible AWX create an admin user](https://github.com/ansible/awx/blob/devel/tools/docker-compose/README.md#create-an-admin-user) Playbook How to Create Ansible AWX superuser in Docker containers. I'm going to show you how to create the "sysadmin" superuser in Ansible AWX via Docker containers and how to use it in AWX web-UI and API. Ansible AWX admin user enables you to access the Ansible AWX Web-UI and the Ansible AWX API endpoints that require authentication. The user creation is performed using the docker exec command using the awx-manage utility: ```bash $ docker exec -ti tools_awx_1 awx-manage createsuperuser ``` A successful execution to create the `example` user as follows: ```bash [lberton@ansible awx]$ docker exec -ti tools_awx_1 awx-manage createsuperuser Username: example Email address: example@example.com Password: Password (again): Superuser created successfully. [lberton@ansible awx]$ ``` Once a **superuser** is successfully created you can access the Ansible AWX Web-UI and Ansible API autenticated endopoints. Ansible AWX UI Login  Ansible AWX UI Dashboard  Ansible AWX API Login The direct API endpoint is https://localhost:8043/api/login/.  Ansible AWX API Authenticated The current authenticated user is shown in the top **Logged in as example**.  Conclusion Now you know how to create an Ansible AWX superuser in Docker containers. Creating a Superuser in AWX Docker Find the AWX web container ```bash docker ps | grep awx ``` Create superuser ```bash docker exec -it awx_web awx-manage createsuperuser ``` Non-interactive creation ```bash docker exec -it awx_web bash -c "DJANGO_SUPERUSER_USERNAME=admin \ DJANGO_SUPERUSER_EMAIL=admin@example.com \ DJANGO_SUPERUSER_PASSWORD=SecurePass123 \ awx-manage createsuperuser --noinput" ``` Reset Existing Admin Password ```bash docker exec -it awx_web awx-manage changepassword admin ``` AWX on Kubernetes (AWX Operator) ```bash Find the AWX web pod kubectl get pods -n awx | grep awx-web Create superuser kubectl exec -it awx-web-xxxxx -n awx -- awx-manage createsuperuser Get default admin password (AWX Operator) kubectl get secret awx-admin-password -n awx -o jsonpath='{.data.password}' | base64 -d ``` Automate with Ansible ```yaml - name: Create AWX superuser via Docker hosts: awx_host tasks: - name