Prerequisites

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Behind a firewall / transparent proxy / ..

Make sure:

• The AWX Turnkey 21.11.0 repository is accessible
• GitHub awx-rpm-v2 is accessible
• dnf copr .. (curl) can access https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/
• the codeready-builder-for-rhel-9-x86_64-rpms repository is available and enabled (Red Hat Satellite configuration)
• EPEL EL9 is accessible, manually create a repository for some mirror you can access if you have to
• ansible-galaxycan access https://galaxy.ansible.com/
• the system can access qay.io to download the latest execution environment (dockker://quay.io / https://quay.io)

Before installation

• Install some requirements:

  dnf -y install git ansible-core
  ansible-galaxy collection install ansible.posix
  ansible-galaxy collection install community.general

• Issue #11 Incompatible packages Red Hat Insights installs an older version of python3-pyyaml, remove before running the plabyook

  dnf -y erase python3-pyyaml-5.4.1

  • This will remove the dependent package insights-client also
• Optional - when you configured 198.51.100.33 in your inventory

  ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -N "" -C root@localhost
  ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub root@localhost
  ssh 198.51.100.33

Before running the playbook

To workaround a current issue with the playbook: After cloning GitHub awx-rpm-v2, manually copy the following service

cp -i awx-rpm-v2/awx-rpm/awx.target-21.11.0 /usr/lib/systemd/system/awx.target

Otherwise, the playbook run will fail

[[(item=awx.target) => {"ansible_loop_var": "item", "changed": false, "item": "awx.target", "msg": "Could not find the requested service awx.target: host"}

The playbook is not yet idempotent

When missing one or more of the above preparations, the database may have been configured before the playbook run fails, running it again, it will fail on the database steps:

TASK [awx-rpm : Initialize Postgres Database] **********************************
fatal: [198.51.100.33]: FAILED! => {"changed": true, "cmd": "/usr/bin/postgresql-setup --initdb", "delta": "0:00:00.152351", "end": "2023-08-08 10:07:58.209718", "msg": "non-zero return code", "rc": 1, "start": "2023-08-08 10:07:58.057367", "stderr": " * Initializing database in '/var/lib/pgsql/data'\nERROR: Data directory /var/lib/pgsql/data is not empty!\nERROR: Initializing database failed, possibly see /var/lib/pgsql/initdb_postgresql.log", "stderr_lines": [" * Initializing database in '/var/lib/pgsql/data'", "ERROR: Data directory /var/lib/pgsql/data is not empty!", "ERROR: Initializing database failed, possibly see /var/lib/pgsql/initdb_postgresql.log"], "stdout": "", "stdout_lines": []}
...ignoring

TASK [awx-rpm : Start and enable PostgreSQL] ***********************************
ok: [198.51.100.33]

TASK [awx-rpm : Create User and database for AWX-RPM] **************************
failed: [198.51.100.33] (item=createuser -S awx) => {"ansible_loop_var": "item", "changed": true, "cmd": "createuser -S awx", "delta": "0:00:00.135206", "end": "2023-08-08 10:07:59.426252", "item": "createuser -S awx", "msg": "non-zero return code", "rc": 1, "start": "2023-08-08 10:07:59.291046", "stderr": "createuser: error: creation of new role failed: ERROR:  role \"awx\" already exists", "stderr_lines": ["createuser: error: creation of new role failed: ERROR:  role \"awx\" already exists"], "stdout": "", "stdout_lines": []}
failed: [198.51.100.33] (item=createdb -O awx awx) => {"ansible_loop_var": "item", "changed": true, "cmd": "createdb -O awx awx", "delta": "0:00:00.015690", "end": "2023-08-08 10:07:59.768870", "item": "createdb -O awx awx", "msg": "non-zero return code", "rc": 1, "start": "2023-08-08 10:07:59.753180", "stderr": "createdb: error: database creation failed: ERROR:  database \"awx\" already exists", "stderr_lines": ["createdb: error: database creation failed: ERROR:  database \"awx\" already exists"], "stdout": "", "stdout_lines": []}

PLAY RECAP *********************************************************************
198.51.100.33              : ok=15   changed=1    unreachable=0    failed=1    skipped=2    rescued=0    ignored=1 

Post install

# su - awx
$ awx-manage changepassword admin
Changing password for user 'admin'
Password: 
Password (again): 
Password changed successfully for user 'admin'