Red Hat Communities of Practice Ansible Automation Platform Utilities Collection

This ansible collection includes a number of roles which can be useful for installing and managing AWX or Ansible Automation Platform. Using this collection, you'll be able to automate following tasks:

• RHEL based installs
  • prepare and install Automation controller and Private automation hub on RHEL
  • configure the OS to support Kerberos (if you plan to manage Windows hosts using AD credentials)
  • backup and restore Automation controller and Private automation hub
  • install a minimal Git repo over SSH, for demonstration and learning purposes
• OpenShift based installs
  • prepare and install Automation controller and Private automation hub on OpenShift

Getting Help

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Requirements

The following collections are required to use this collection if you are using the Openshift specific roles.

Name	Minimum Version
ansible.posix	1.0.0
kubernetes.core	2.2.0
redhat.openshift	2.0.1

⚠️ IMPORTANT

To install this collection ensure that access to Automation Hub is configured or required collections are already installed.

The aap_install_ocp role requires the kubernetes (version 12.0.0 or later) Python module to be installed.

Links to Ansible Automation Platform Collections

Collection Name	Purpose
awx.awx/Ansible.controller repo	Automation controller modules
Ansible Hub Configuration	Automation hub configuration

Links to other Validated Configuration Collections for Ansible Automation Platform

Collection Name	Purpose
Controller Configuration	Automation controller configuration
EE Utilities	Execution Environment creation utilities
AAP installation Utilities	Ansible Automation Platform Utilities
AAP Configuration Template	Configuration Template for this suite

Included content

Click the Content button to see the list of content included in this collection.

Installing this collection

You can install the redhat_cop aap_utilities collection with the Ansible Galaxy CLI:

ansible-galaxy collection install infra.aap_utilities

You can also include it in a requirements.yml file and install it with ansible-galaxy collection install -r requirements.yml, using the format:

---
collections:
  - name: infra.aap_utilities
    # If you need a specific version of the collection, you can specify like this:
    # version: ...

Using this collection

See Also

• Ansible Using collections for more details.

Release and Upgrade Notes

Many roles and variables have been renamed to reflect the product renaming from Tower to controller/AAP. Verify carefully your inventory variables and playbooks.

The previous OCP installation role has been suppressed due to the introduction of an operator. In addition to the current OCP installation role, further (community) automation for AAP on OCP is available from the GitOps catalogue.

Releasing, Versioning and Deprecation

This collection follows Semantic Versioning. More details on versioning can be found in the Ansible docs.

We plan to regularly release new minor or bugfix versions once new features or bugfixes have been implemented.

Releasing the current major version happens from the devel branch.

Roadmap

Contributing to this collection

We welcome community contributions to this collection. If you find problems, please open an issue or create a PR against the AAP Utilities collection repository. More information about contributing can be found in our Contribution Guidelines.

Licensing

GNU General Public License v3.0 or later.

See LICENSE to see the full text.