如何配置AWX以使用未发行的Ansible版本

Question

I have installed AWX using the galaxy role obtained with ansible-galaxy install geerlingguy.awx .

It installs the devel branch of awx, however jobs still use the stable version of ansible.

Is there a way to control the version of ansible used by jobs when running playbooks from AWX?

Answer 1

I solved the issue leveraging virtualenvs as per an hint from https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/awx-project/AlWbCrlpIC0

So it was a matter of creating a virtualenv on docker containers and enabling it for the organization:

docker exec -it awx_web bash

virtualenv /var/lib/awx/venv/ansible27
yum install -y gcc
yum install -y python-devel
/var/lib/awx/venv/ansible27/bin/pip install python-memcached psutil
/var/lib/awx/venv/ansible27/bin/pip install -U "ansible == 2.7.0"

exit

docker exec -it awx_task bash

virtualenv /var/lib/awx/venv/ansible27
yum install -y gcc
yum install -y python-devel
/var/lib/awx/venv/ansible27/bin/pip install python-memcached psutil
/var/lib/awx/venv/ansible27/bin/pip install -U "ansible == 2.7.0"

exit

curl  -u 'admin:password' -X PATCH -H 'Content-Type: application/json' http://127.0.0.1/api/v2/organizations/MYORG/ -d '
{
    "custom_virtualenv": "/var/lib/awx/venv/ansible27"
}
'