awx-operator VS Ansible

We're happy to announce that AWX Version 23.0.0 is now available! We're happy to announce that AWX Operator version 2.5.2 is now available!

So what did I do wrong here ?! I followed the guide step by step (https://github.com/ansible/awx-operator) but still failed.

AH. I checked and found this open issue: https://github.com/ansible/awx-operator/issues/1391

Please see the releases pages for more details: AWX, Operator.

awx has an operator - https://github.com/ansible/awx-operator

I'm now attempting a POC to use k8s, despite having limited experience with it. I've successfully deployed AWX using the https://github.com/ansible/awx-operator on k8s, which includes Postgres. However, I'm unsure how to configure AWX with the plays that we publish in our CI/CD pipeline.

You can look at the operator source code https://github.com/ansible/awx-operator to see exactly what it does.

I have setup AWX Operator from https://github.com/ansible/awx-operator and everything works ok. But there's an annoying warning when running modules from the community.vmware collection.

We're happy to announce that AWX version 21.10.2 is now available! We're happy to announce that AWX Operator version 1.1.3 is now available! This AWX version downgrades a dependency which was causing tracebacks to appear often in the logs of some deployments.

Ansible is an open-source IT automation tool that simplifies application deployment, cloud provisioning, and configuration management across diverse environments. It uses a declarative language to describe the desired state of the system, and then takes the necessary actions to achieve that state. Ansible has become incredibly popular due to its simplicity, agentless architecture, and extensive community support. Document: ansible.com, ansible basics

Ansible v2.16

Ansible is a tool used to help manage software automation processes, configuration management across machines, deployment as well as remote execution of commands and scripts. In sports, Ansible operates as the coach of your team by providing strategies (playbooks), and actions, and ensuring the smooth execution of tasks across your infrastructure, just like a coach guides and directs players (Servers)during a game.

They support for-if from python, too: https://jinja.palletsprojects.com/en/3.1.x/templates/#loop-f... but I haven't tried the "recursive" keyword to know if ansible supports that. I say "ansible supports that" because they don't just drop jinja2 into ansible and call it a draw, they have a bunch of custom execution integrations: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v2.16.3/lib/ansible/...

To manage a VM, you can use something as simple as just manual actions over SSH, or can use tools like Ansible, Hashicorp's Packer and Terraform or other automations. For an app where there is minimal load and security/reliability concern, VMs are still a great option that provide a lot of value for the buck

In this article's context, it is simply a tool that provides a declarative way to automate your machine/OS to configure the development machine as you want (install package, modify the configuration, etc). Examples of these tools are Ansible, Puppet, etc.

Now we're getting more tangential, but for years, Ansible releases were named for Van Halen songs (see old Changelog here: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v1.8.4/CHANGELOG.md)

In the lab to follow, we'll quickly provision a 3-node kubeadm cluster (1 master, 2 workers) on the cloud provider of your choice using an automation stack comprised of OpenTofu and Ansible, then deploy Rook Ceph using the official Helm charts and confirm that we are now able to successfully create CSI volume snapshots from PVCs by reusing the MinIO example from our last article.