Wednesday, November 23, 2016

Ansible Tower.. Not Worth The Effort.


So a month ago I decided to try out Tower on a trial basis.  I was plagued with issues from the start.  First off the installer would bomb out.. long story short due to missing values in teh Inventory file.  Why were they missing?  Because the documentation failed to explain in great enough detail that you had to specify 'localhost' instead the actual hostname and that you had to specify a pg port of 5342 AND that the installer looks for a separate database by default.  No prompts or anything.
Then once I finally got it fully installed and working.. a day later it'd fail to authenticate 'admin' in the web interface.  You can change the admin accounts password via the command line however that even does not work.  The only fix I found was a reinstall.. which yeah, there goes your config.

Anyway Red Hat can kiss it for now.  Maybe when it goes Open Source next year it'll be more stable.

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