Get started using Ansible AWX (Open Source Tower version) in one minute

Jeff Geerling | Sept. 8, 2017, 1:19 p.m. | Original

Since yesterday's announcement that Ansible had released the code behind Ansible Tower, AWX, under an open source license , I've been working on an AWX Ansible role , a demo AWX Vagrant VM , and an AWX Ansible Container project .

As part of that last project, I have published two public Docker Hub images, awx_web and awx_task , which can be used with a docker-compose.yml file to build AWX locally in about as much time as it takes to download the Docker images:

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/geerlingguy/awx-container/master/docker-compose.yml
docker-compose up -d

After docker-compose is finished, wait a couple minutes for the initial database migration to run, then you should be able to access AWX at https://localhost/ (the default login is admin / password ):

Ansible AWX Dashboard - after initialization - with Angry Potato

You can find out all the details as to how this works, and how you can build the Docker images yourself using Ansible Container in the project repository: AWX (Built with Ansible Container) .

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