Exercise 2.0 - Installing Ansible Tower | Red Hat

Step 1: Change directories

Change directories to /tmp

cd /tmp

Step 2: Download Red Hat Ansible Tower

Download the latest Ansible Tower package

curl -O http://releases.ansible.com/ansible-tower/setup/ansible-tower-setup-latest.tar.gz

Step 3: Untar and unzip the package file

tar xvfz /tmp/ansible-tower-setup-latest.tar.gz

Step 4: Change directories

Change directories into the Ansible Tower package

cd /tmp/ansible-tower-setup-*/

Step 5: Open inventory file

Using an editor of your choice, open the inventory file

vim inventory

Step 6: Identify variables

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

[tower]
localhost ansible_connection=local

[database]

[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 7: Run setup

Run the Ansible Tower setup script

sudo ./setup.sh

Step 7 will take approx. 10-15 minutes to complete. This may be a good time to take a break.

Step 8: Confirm results

At this point, your Ansible Tower installation should be complete. You can access your Tower (not forgetting that workshopname is the name of your workshop, and # is your student number) at:

example-tower0.example.redhatgov.io

Ensuring Installation Success

You know you were successful if you are able to browse to your Ansible Tower’s url (control node’s IP address) and get something like this

Figure 2: Ansible Tower Login Screen

Workshop Details

Student ID:

Workshop:

Region:

Domain:
Workshop Name:
Region:
User ID:

Exercise 2.0 - Installing Ansible Tower

Exercise Description

Installing Ansible Tower