In this lab we are working with AWX

Task 1

• Get an Overview of the AWX Web GUI.
• For security reasons you should change the admin password.
• Find out where that password can be changed.

Task 2

• Add a organization named “Techlab”.
• Add a User ansible that belongs to the Techlab organization.
• ansible should belong to the AWX role “System Admnistrator”.
• Log out form AWX web GUI.
• Log in to AWX web GUI as ansible

Task 3

• The AWX installation comes with a “Demo Project” and a “Demo Job Template”
• Take a look at the definition of Demo Projekt: This project links to a git repository on GitHup with an example playbook.
• Take a look at Demo Job Template. This template can be used to run the playbook hello_world.yml from that GitHub repository.
• Execute that playbook by klicking on the rocket symbol. It shoud run without errors print “hello world”.

Task 4

• Try to run hello_world on node1 and node2:
  • You should create credentials within AWX that allow for SSH login as ansible user to node1 and node2.
  • Use the existing SSH private key from ~ansible/.ssh/ on control0.
  • You should also create an inventory within AWX that contains node1 and node2.
  • Modify Demo Job Template or create a new template that runs hello_world.yml (from Demo Project) with your newly created credentials and inventory.

Solutions

Solution 1

Solution 2

Solution 3

Solution 4