When recently running ansible on a local virtual switch from juniper vqfx10k, I got the following error: $ ansible local -m ping [WARNING]: sftp transfer mechanism failed on [127.0.0.1]. Use ANSIBLE_DEBUG=1 to see detailed information [WARNING]: scp transfer mechanism failed on [127.0.0.1]. Use ANSIBLE_DEBUG=1 to see detailed information vqfx1 | FAILED! => { "changed": false, […]
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Good day, in this post I will show you how to use Keycloak (Open source Redhat SSO) as the identity provider for AWX. I am basing this tutorial on the post on red hat SSO integration on ansible.com and from the AWX docs on SAML authentication Prerequisites You need the following set up: AWX instance […]
Ensure that your playbook sets hosts: all as awx manages your host definition As per AWX: Troubleshooting no inventory parsed Well that didn’t work still got the same issue. I found 4 relevant issues on github on the ERROR! No inventory was parsed, please check your configuration and options. issue: https://github.com/ansible/awx/issues/4746 https://github.com/ansible/awx/issues/3365 https://github.com/ansible/awx/issues/5535 Although there […]
AWX Ad Hoc Test The first step before you do anything on AWX, is just get your toes wet and do a simple ad hoc command locally. To do this got to Inventories -> + Call it localhost. Next you have to actually add hosts or groups to this inventory. To do this edit the […]
AWX release versions don’t link up that well with ansible towers. The problem with that is that when reading user and admin docs of ansible tower, the versions don’t link up. Anyway AWX updates versions like wildfire so we are now on AWX version 11, this is probably outdated now so check the latest AWX […]