Category: Linux

AWX Isolated Nodes Broken after AWX Upgrade 

tl;dr: Python2 strikes back! Always use Python3. Ran into this issue after an upgrade of AWX from 14.0.0 to 15.0.1, where jobs will just fail with no output in AWX showing what happened. Just a blank box where stdout normally appears. Well great… Checked /var/log/, journalctl, and any other logging locations I could think of.

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Linux Patching with Ansible

Today I ran into an issue building a patching playbook for my Linux VMs. I have a mix of Ubuntu, and a couple of CentOS versions. I began with testing against Ubuntu and CentOS 8, and everything worked really well. As soon as I brought a CentOS 7 box into the mix, I started receiving

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AWX LDAP/Active Directory Authentication 

An issue I ran into the other day when trying to setup Active Directory authentication in Ansible AWX, using LDAP auth type. These are a couple things that aren’t exactly called out in the documentation from Red Hat, and might not be obvious to all. You can use ldap:// if you aren’t setup for ldaps://

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