This brief tutorial shows students and new users how to install Ansible with AWX on Ubuntu 18.04 | 16.04.
Ansible is an open source software provisioning, configuration management, and application-deployment tool that allows configuration managers painless process to manage and deploy applications and services across diverse environments.
AWX provides a web-based user interface, REST API, and task engine built on top of Ansible. With both work together to provide web based portal to manage and automate Ansible.
AWX allows you to easily and centrally manage Ansible playbooks, inventories, Secrets, and scheduled jobs from a web interface.
To get started with installing Ansible AWX on Ubuntu, follow the steps below:
Step 1: Install Docker and Docker Compose
Docker has two editions: The Enterprise Edition (EE) and the Community Edition (CE).
For this tutorial, we’re going to be installing the community edition of Docker.
If you always want to automatically get the latest version of Docker on Ubuntu, you must add its official repository to Ubuntu system. To do that, run the commands below to install prerequisite packages.
sudo apt update sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https ca-certificates curl gnupg-agent software-properties-common
Next, run the commands below to download and install Docker’s official GPG key. The key is used to validate packages installed from Docker’s repository making sure they’re trusted.
curl -fsSL | sudo apt-key add - sudo apt-key fingerprint 0EBFCD88
You should see an output shown below:
Output:
pub rsa4096 2017-02-22 [SCEA]
9DC8 5822 9FC7 DD38 854A E2D8 8D81 803C 0EBF CD88
uid [ unknown] Docker Release (CE deb) <[email protected]>
sub rsa4096 2017-02-22 [S]
Now that the official GPG key is installed, run the commands below to add its stable repository to Ubuntu. To add the nightly or test repository, add the word nightly or test (or both) after the word stable in the commands below.
sudo add-apt-repository "deb [arch=amd64] $(lsb_release -cs) stable"
At this point, Docker’s official GPG and repository should be installed on Ubuntu.
For those who currently have older versions of Docker, run the commands below to remove them.
sudo apt-get remove docker docker-engine docker.io containerd runc
When you have remove all previous versions of Docker, run the commands below to install the latest and current stable version of Docker.
To install specific version of Docker, run the apt-cache command.Then select the version to install.
apt-cache madison docker-ce Output: docker-ce | 5:18.09.5~3-0~ubuntu-bionic | bionic/stable amd64 Packages docker-ce | 5:18.09.4~3-0~ubuntu-bionic | bionic/stable amd64 Packages docker-ce | 5:18.09.3~3-0~ubuntu-bionic | bionic/stable amd64 Packages docker-ce | 5:18.09.2~3-0~ubuntu-bionic | bionic/stable amd64 Packages .
Now to install a specific version, run the commands below with the version you wish to install
sudo apt-get install docker-ce=5:18.09.5~3-0~ubuntu-bionic docker-ce-cli=5:18.09.5~3-0~ubuntu-bionic containerd.io
If you just want to latest version without specifying above, run the commands below. The command below will always install the highest possible version.
sudo apt update sudo apt-get install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io
That should install Docker software on Ubuntu.
Add your account to Docker group and restart.
sudo usermod -aG docker $USER sudo systemctl restart docker
Verify that Docker CE is installed correctly by running the hello-world image, run the commands below:
sudo docker run hello-world
You should see a similar lines as below:
Output: Hello from Docker! This message shows that your installation appears to be working correctly.
Docker is installed correctly!
Install Docker Compose
On Ubuntu Linux, you can download the Docker Compose binary from the Compose repository release page on GitHub.
To install it, run the commands below to download version 1.24.0. As of this writing this was the current version.
sudo curl -L "https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/1.24.0/docker-compose-$(uname -s)-$(uname -m)" -o /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
To install a different version of Compose, substitute 1.24.0 with the version of Compose you want to use.
After downloading it, run the commands below to apply executable permissions to the binary file and create a symbolic link to /usr/binary
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/docker-compose /usr/bin/docker-compose
That should get Docker Compose working. To test, run the commands below:
docker-compose --version
You should see similar output as below:
Output: docker-compose version 1.24.0, build 0aa59064
This is how to install Docker and Docker Compose on Ubuntu
Step 2: Install Ansible
Now that Docker and Docker Compose are installed, use the commands below to install the latest version of Ansible.
echo "deb bionic main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ansible.list sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 93C4A3FD7BB9C367 sudo apt update sudo apt install ansible
After installing, you can use the commands below to verify that Ansible is installed and show its version number.
ansible --version
The commands should output similar lines as shown below
ansible 2.9.6 config file = /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg configured module search path = [u'/home/richard/.ansible/plugins/modules', u'/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules'] ansible python module location = /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ansible executable location = /usr/bin/ansible python version = 2.7.17 (default, Nov 7 2019, 10:07:09) [GCC 7.4.0]
Step 3: Install AWX
At this point, Docker, Docker Compose and Ansible should be installed.
Next, follow the steps below to install AWX. First install and configure few prerequisite packages.
sudo apt install nodejs npm sudo npm install npm --global sudo apt install python-pip git pwgen pip install docker
Next, clone AWX source code from GitHub using the git command.
cd ~/ git clone --depth 50
Change into the installer folder
cd ~/awx/installer/
Generate AWX secret key using the commands below. You’ll need this key in the configuration file below:
pwgen -N 1 -s 30
It should output a strong similar to the one below. Copy and save it somewhere.
vqr6egDqcJpE4VVJ8tMlfAcFrHz7gY
After that, open the inventory file and add the secret key generated above and save the file.
nano inventory
Edit the highlighted line and save the file
# This will create or update a default admin (superuser) account in AWX, if not provided
# then these default values are used
admin_user=admin
admin_password=password
# Whether or not to create preload data for demonstration purposes
create_preload_data=True
# AWX Secret key
# It's *very* important that this stay the same between upgrades or you will lose the ability to decrypt
# your credentials
secret_key=vqr6egDqcJpE4VVJ8tMlfAcFrHz7gY
# Build AWX with official logos
Next, run ansible-playbook command below to install and configure its environment.
The name of the playbook file is install.yml.
ansible-playbook -i inventory install.yml
After a brief moment, the setup should complete.
When done, open your browser and browse to the server hostname or IP address.
That should bring up AWX portal to login.
Login with the username password in the configuration file above.
Default is admin and password
Enjoy!
Conclusion:
This post showed you how to install and configure Ansible AWX on Ubuntu 18.04 | 16.04. If you find any error above, please use the comment form below to report.
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