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Luca Berton is an Ansible automation expert, author of 9 technical books published by Apress and Leanpub, 4 of them on Ansible, including "Ansible for VMware by Examples" and "Ansible for Kubernetes by Example", and creator of the Ansible Pilot YouTube channel. He shares practical automation knowledge through tutorials, books, and video courses to help IT professionals and DevOps engineers master infrastructure automation.

Run and Stop AWX in Docker Containers: Start, Stop & Manage (Guide) — Video Tutorial

How to run and stop Ansible AWX in Docker containers. Start, stop, restart AWX services, check logs, and troubleshoot common Docker deployment issues.

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What you'll learn

  • How to Run and Stop Ansible AWX in Docker container?
  • Links
  • Playbook
  • code
  • Access the Ansible AWX Web UI
  • Access the Ansible AWX Web API
  • Conclusion
  • Start AWX
  • Stop AWX
  • Restart AWX
How to Run and Stop Ansible AWX in Docker container? You can take advantage of the AWX modern web-UI and API interface. Running in Docker containers is recommended only for experienced users and developers. Links - https://github.com/ansible/awx/blob/devel/tools/docker-compose/README.md#run-awx Playbook How to Run and Stop Ansible AWX in Docker containers. This requires Building from scratch Ansible AWX for Docker containers in a previous lesson. code Once you have a successful build of Ansible AWX for Docker containers, you can run the AWX container using the following command. The process is also spinning the requirements of PostgreSQL and Redis containers. ```bash $ make docker-compose ``` Your session will be attached to the AWX container, and start watching for log messages and events in real-time when the container was launched. The first time you start the environment, database migrations run in order to build the PostgreSQL initial database schema and data. By default, six Docker containers are running on your machine: `tools_awx_1`, `tools_postgres_1`, `tools_redis_1`, `tools_receptor_hop`, `tools_receptor_1`, `tools_receptor_2`. You can verify the containers running in your system using the `docker ps` command: ```bash [lberton@ansible awx]$ docker ps CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES bce34be76a94 ghcr.io/ansible/awx_devel:HEAD "/entrypoint.sh rece…" 14 hours ago Up 2 minutes 22/tcp, 8013/tcp, 8043/tcp, 8080/tcp tools_receptor_2 c11c7c1114f1 ghcr.io/ansible/awx_devel:HEAD "/entrypoint.sh rece…" 14 hours ago Up 2 minutes 22/tcp, 8013/tcp, 8043/tcp, 8080/tcp tools_receptor_1 05589a6b6185 quay.io/ansible/receptor:devel "/usr/local/bin/dumb…" 14 hours ago Up 3 minutes 0.0.0.0:5555->5555/tcp, :::5555->5555/tcp, 7323/tcp

About this tutorial

  • Author: Luca Berton
  • Difficulty: Beginner
  • Read time: 5 min
  • Category: troubleshooting

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