Installing-Ansible-Tower-Workshop-Labs.adoc

Exercise 1.1 - Installing Ansible Tower

In this exercise, we are going to get Ansible Tower installed on your control node

Step 1:

ssh into your control node

$ ssh <username>@<IP of control node>

Step 2:

Change directories to /tmp

$ cd /tmp

Step 3:

Download the latest Ansible Tower package

$ curl -O https://releases.ansible.com/ansible-tower/setup-bundle/ansible-tower-setup-bundle-latest.el7.tar.gz

Step 4:

Untar and unzip the package file

$ tar xvfz /tmp/ansible-tower-setup- (Name of tar file that was downloaded)*

Step 5:

Change directories into the ansible tower package

$ cd /tmp/ansible-tower-setup-

Step 6:

Using an editor of your choice, open the inventory file

$ vi inventory

Step 7:

fill a few variables out in an inventory file: admin_password, rabbitmq_password, pg_password

[tower]
localhost ansible_connection=local

[all:vars]
admin_password='ansibleWS'

pg_host=''
pg_port=''

pg_database='awx'
pg_username='awx'
pg_password='ansibleWS'

rabbitmq_port=5672
rabbitmq_vhost=tower
rabbitmq_username=tower
rabbitmq_password='ansibleWS'
rabbitmq_cookie=cookiemonster

# Needs to be true for fqdns and ip addresses
rabbitmq_use_long_name=false

Step 8:

run the Ansible Tower setup script

$ sudo ./setup.sh

Step 8 will take approx. 10-15 minutes to complete. This may be a good time to take a break.

At this point, your Ansible Tower installation should be complete.

You can access Tower at http://<IP-of-your-control-node>;

Ensuring Installation Success

You know you were successful if you are able to browse to your Ansible Towers url (control nodes IP address) and see a login screen.

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