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# AWX Ansible Collection
This Ansible collection allows for easy interaction with an AWX or Ansible Tower
server in Ansible playbooks.
The previous home for this collection was in https://github.com/ansible/ansible
inside the folder `lib/ansible/modules/web_infrastructure/ansible_tower`
as well as other folders for the inventory plugin, module utils, and
doc fragment.
## Release and Upgrade Notes
The release 7.0.0 of the `awx.awx` collection is intended to be identical
to the content prior to the migration, aside from changes necessary to
have it function as a collection.
The following notes are changes that may require changes to playbooks.
- Specifying `inputs` or `injectors` as strings in the
`tower_credential_type` module is no longer supported. Provide as dictionaries instead.
- When a project is created, it will wait for the update/sync to finish by default; this can be turned off with the `wait` parameter, if desired.
- Creating a "scan" type job template is no longer supported.
- `extra_vars` in the `tower_job_launch` module worked with a list previously, but is now configured to work solely in a `dict` format.
- When the `extra_vars` parameter is used with the `tower_job_launch` module, the Job Template launch will fail unless `add_extra_vars` or `survey_enabled` is explicitly set to `True` on the Job Template.
## Running
To use this collection, the "old" tower-cli needs to be installed
in the virtual environment where the collection runs.
You can install it from either:
- https://github.com/ansible/tower-cli/
- https://pypi.org/project/ansible-tower-cli/
To use this collection in AWX, you should create a custom virtual environment
to install the requirement into. NOTE: running locally, you will also need
to set the job template extra_vars to include `ansible_python_interpreter`
to be the python in that virtual environment.
## Running Tests
Tests to verify compatibility with the most recent AWX code are
in `awx_collection/test/awx`. These tests require that python packages
are available for all of `awx`, `ansible`, `tower_cli`, and the collection
itself.
### Inside Development Container
The target `make prepare_collection_venv` will prepare some requirements
in the `awx_collection_test_venv` folder so that `make test_collection` can
be ran to actually run the tests. A single test can be ran via:
```
make test_collection COLLECTION_TEST_DIRS=awx_collection/test/awx/test_organization.py
```
### Manually
As a faster alternative if you do not want to use the container, or
run against Ansible or tower-cli source, it is possible to set up a
working environment yourself.
```
mkvirtualenv my_new_venv
# may need to replace psycopg2 with psycopg2-binary in requirements/requirements.txt
pip install -r requirements/requirements.txt -r requirements/requirements_dev.txt -r requirements/requirements_git.txt
make clean-api
pip install -e <path to your Ansible>
pip install -e <path to your tower-cli>
pip install -e .
PYTHONPATH=awx_collection:$PYTHONPATH py.test awx_collection/test/awx/
```
## Building
The build target `make build_collection` will template out a `galaxy.yml` file
with automatic detection of the current AWX version. Then it builds the
collection with the `ansible-galaxy` CLI.
## Roadmap
Major future development items on the agenda include:
- Removing tower-cli as a dependency
- Renaming the modules, for example `tower_organization` to just `organization`
and giving a deprecation period for the switch
## Licensing
All content in this folder is licensed under the same license as Ansible,
which is the same as license that applied before the split into an
independent collection.