awx-on-k3s VS ara

I used THIS GUIDE to configure Kerberos and it's more-or-less working fine. It's just that I'm using hostnames and AWX has issues picking correct AD domain (I have multiple domains specified), despite having the following:

Ref: https://github.com/kurokobo/awx-on-k3s/tree/main/builder

Haha, I wasn't even aware there were any other AWX-on-K3s playbooks out there! Like there's https://github.com/kurokobo/awx-on-k3s, but this playbook I've made is basically just a wrapper for it.

short heads-up: i started a position at a new company, the prior employee didn‘t do any documentation. i have a awx 19 on k3s in a constrained environment (multiple ads/proxies etc… firewall rings etc.) where all the setup seems to be happen with an older/modified version of this and someone tried to update with [https://github.com/ansible/awx-operator](this (awx operator)) but failed multiple times. no one touched it since.

I just deployed AWX latest version using k3s, following this neat guide: https://github.com/kurokobo/awx-on-k3s/

Give this a try, it's a step-by-step guide to setting it all up using k3s (mini/single-node Kubernetes): https://github.com/kurokobo/awx-on-k3s

I would recommend this guide: https://github.com/kurokobo/awx-on-k3s it's by far the best guide to install operator and awx afterwards out there on a kubernetes cluster/single node.

Look into AWX as an alternative to Tower. If you just want better reporting on runs, check out ARA or callback plugins.

Also worth considering is ARA for playbook reporting, and then whatever you want for orchestration (Jenkins, Azure Devops, Rundeck, etc).

Why not use ara?

For general recording of playbook activity with a web dashboard, ARA works really well.

If you don’t want any UI / access control then you can also look at ARA - https://ara.recordsansible.org This works as a callback plugin to capture the job run data.

I'm not sure how to interpret running 100 debug messages (https://github.com/ansible-community/ara/blob/master/tests/integration/benchmark_tasks.yaml) into real life performance. Mitogen's Benchmark used either 100 times a "hostname" command on the target machine (https://github.com/mitogen-hq/mitogen/blob/master/tests/ansible/bench/loop-100-items.yml) or running the DebOps project (https://github.com/debops/debops-playbooks/blob/master/playbooks/common.yml) for some sorta real-world module usage.

Reach out on Mastodon or see this issue on GitHub.

There has been discussions about a prometheus exporter for monitoring, metrics and eventually fancy graphs in grafana but work on this has not started yet: https://github.com/ansible-community/ara/issues/177