awx/awx_collection

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.

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.