Ansible Automation Platform

Install Ansible Automation Platform

Prerequisites

Red Hat Developer account

Go to the Red Hat Developer portal, click “Join now,” and fill out the form.

Provide the following:

• Username
• Email address
• Job role
• Password

Red Hat registry service account token

Navigate to the Registry Service Account Management Application, and log in if necessary.

1. From the Registry Service Accounts page, click the New Service Account button.

2. Provide a name for the Service Account. It will be prepended with a fixed, random string.

   • Enter a description.
   • Click create.

3. Navigate back to your Service Accounts.

4. Click the Service Account you created.

   • Note the username, including the prepended string (i.e. XXXXXXX|username). This is the username that should be used to log in to registry.redhat.io in the inventory file.
   • Note the password. This is the password that should be used to authenticate to registry.redhat.io. in the inventory file.

Log in to the control node as ec2-user

RUN ON THE CONTROL NODE

Install Automation Platform

Install subscription-manager

sudo yum install -y subscription-manager

Register VM with Red Hat package repos

sudo subscription-manager register --auto-attach

When prompted, provide your Red Hat Developer username and password.

Click Here to download the Ansible Automation Platform installer.

• Log in to the portal

• At the top, change the Version to the latest for RHEL 8

• Click the “Download Now” link on the “Bundle” installer

  

Copy the installer to the lab VM.

Macos/Linux

Use scp to copy the setup file from your local machine to the Ansible Control node.

Windows

Copy the installer to the lab VM using WinSCP:

Create a new connection to the lab server:

• Change File protocol to SCP
• Enter the Hostname of the Lab VM
• Enter the username provided by the instructor

Configure SSH Key Authentication:

• Browse the key provided by the instructor.

After connecting, copy the download setup file to the Lab VM in /home/ec2-user

Connect to the server using SSH

Extract the installer

If the file is a .tar run:

tar -xvf ansible-automation-platform-setup-*.tar

If the file is a .tar.gz run:

tar -zxvf ansible-automation-platform-setup-*.tar.gz

Enter directory

cd ansible-automation-platform-setup-<version>

The latest version of AAP does not support installation on localhost. Due to this, we need to add the following to /etc/hosts

Using sudo open /etc/hosts in your favorite editor.

sudo vi /etc/hosts

Now add aap.localhost.com to the end of the line beginning with 127.0.0.1 so it looks like this:

127.0.0.1   localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4 localhost4.localdomain4 aap.localhost.com

Save the file and run the following to test.

ping aap.localhost.com

Delete the original inventory file

rm -rf inventory

Create a new inventory file and paste the following into it.

[automationcontroller]
aap.localhost.com ansible_connection=local

[database]

[all:vars]
admin_password='Password1234'

pg_host=''
pg_port=''

pg_database='awx'
pg_username='awx'
pg_password='Password1234'

registry_url='registry.redhat.io'
registry_username='15765574|ansible-tower'
registry_password='eyJhbGciOiJSUzUxMiJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJlZTBmNDllNzE1ZWQ0MmQ3YjZkNzk2MWRiZDA1ZDgwNCJ9.APx3LOHNzp4O2pNewBL5X2CR84vJqL24wPBuEtUfQUU6ckP4CJcYIl2lyr9NQCcapG1rtoTiAp4NHstmroi-m_nCOcr1he8vMsUSNGMKqT-tBr-oe84bENmYM_DNvbQReh1pW4c6D2VQFXC9iN60vNl4cylBSy4BWFeg3Dgj62RQSgDAr8RX4twjh0BDbIE75IcVLK2cyvHTqmSst9kk0q9_iAAvGokxRkEHwurkPg6VCZ0MFG3O6GRtVCVS055mGR6P48Wzhwvm698GKHferVyt-0AqWox83hvQWB-pvRmOgkZyFnsdlHpHNIzCN1_g7LQmkk-Lqw0NYanqU-ag8yHnv_RO4HpOI-PAWponrFk7lU3HRBOAjeyHiW60FwgTtDOftTi7Gz-Uer8mcZfLoyMfByYoK8BUc7lNhCPvG32qkEMkbdB7TFSRmIVqgh3VQ3m8OYCu7IrD3qpLA3faydQIqa8h_XMs9umrSvpb7kctDVrTqwQvZp3rZqZbJE5-qL_xwdgdTCZcVE5JBa8Rhr962K5sLVJLfWRqkAoK3agmzXFYbl16VNtoAfeMblyOK_jQc-WMycxr7C0aQAHQ18Y7zRBVJyRplwyuc1k-zjcZA9GBvhW35fF-NyNIMF2qga-Rz2z_0zOw8zkP1Ioug--sRz8Tgz47UMphlkm'

Set the following in the inventory file (if not already completed)

• admin password = Password1234
• pg_password = Password1234

• registry_username = The username generated earlier in the lab (i.e 15765574

  ansible-tower)

• registry_password = The token you generated earlier in the lab.

Run installation script

sudo ./setup.sh -e required_ram=2048

NOTE: This will take some time to complete.

After the script above completes, you can access the Dashboard at the following URL (replacing Server IP with your lab VM IP)

https://[Server IP]/#/login

Log into the dashboard with the username admin and the password you specified in the inventory file Password1234

NOTE: You can reset the admin password by running the following on the Ansible Control VM:

sudo awx-manage changepassword admin

You will see a screen asking to register Automation Platform. Log in with your developer credentials.

Select your subscription, and click “Next”

Accept defaults, and click “Next”

Accept the license agreement and click “Submit”

You should now see the dashboard

Congratulations