Deploy AWX Tower

This is video one in the series:

Self-service in Azure using Cloudforms

AWX Project: https://github.com/ansible/awx

Here are the steps I use in the video:

I am turning off firewalld here for the purpose of this demo and since it's not an enterprise environment where I WOULDN'T recommend turning of firewalld, I would recommend opening the correct ports.

Turn off firewalld

Step 1. Install epel repository and required packages

yum install epel-release

yum install -y yum-utils device-mapper-persistent-data lvm2 python-devel python-pip git

Step 2. Clone repository

git clone https://github.com/ansible/awx.git

Step 2. Install Ansible

yum install ansible

Step 3. Install Docker


yum-config-manager --add-repo https://download.docker.com/linux/centos/docker-ce.repo

yum-config-manager --enable docker-ce-edge
yum-config-manager --enable docker-ce-test

yum install docker-ce

pip install docker

start and enable docker

Step 4. Install AWX container

cd awx/installer

vi inventory file and change Postgres data directory location and uncomment the line for your awx projects directory. I uncomment the official logos line, you can if you choose.

cat inventory |grep -v "#"

ansible-playbook -i inventory install.yml

Open a browser and put in the IP address of your server or the hostname depending on your DNS situation.

username: admin
password: password

I also realized, you don't have to install Ansible separately from the packages you install after installing the epel repository. I am still trying to figure out why I thought adding that step was a good idea but the reason eludes me currently.