AWX on Single Node K3s

An example implementation of AWX on single node K3s using AWX Operator, with easy-to-use simplified configuration with ownership of data and passwords.

• Accesible over HTTPS from remote host
• All data will be stored under /data
• Fixed (configurable) passwords for AWX and PostgreSQL
• Fixed (configurable) versions of AWX and PostgreSQL

Environment

• Tested on:
  • CentOS 8 (Minimal)
• Products that will be deployed:
  • AWX-Operator 0.9.0
  • AWX Version 19.1.0
  • PostgreSQL 12

References

• K3s - Lightweight Kubernetes
• INSTALL.md on ansible/awx @19.1.0
• README.md on ansible/awx-operator @0.9.0

Procedure

Prepare CentOS 8 host

Disable Firewalld. This is recommended by K3s.

sudo systemctl disable firewalld --now

Install K3s

Install K3s with --write-kubeconfig-mode 644 to make config file (/etc/rancher/k3s/k3s.yaml) readable by non-root user.

curl -sfL https://get.k3s.io | sh -s - --write-kubeconfig-mode 644

Install AWX Operator

Install specified version of AWX Operator.

kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ansible/awx-operator/0.9.0/deploy/awx-operator.yaml

Prepare required files

Clone this repository and change directory.

git clone https://github.com/kurokobo/awx-on-k3s.git
cd awx-on-k3s

Generate a Self-Signed Certificate. Note that IP address can't be specified.

AWX_HOST="awx.example.com"
openssl req -x509 -nodes -days 3650 -newkey rsa:2048 -out ./base/tls.crt -keyout ./base/tls.key -subj "/CN=${AWX_HOST}/O=${AWX_HOST}" -addext "subjectAltName = DNS:${AWX_HOST}"

Modify tower_hostname in base\awx.yaml.

---
...
spec:
  tower_ingress_type: Ingress
  tower_ingress_tls_secret: awx-secret-tls
  tower_hostname: awx.example.com     👈👈👈
...

Modify two passwords in base\kustomization.yaml.

...
  - name: awx-postgres-configuration
    type: Opaque
    literals:
      - host=awx-postgres
      - port=5432
      - database=awx
      - username=awx
      - password=Ansible123!!     👈👈👈
      - type=managed

  - name: awx-admin-password
    type: Opaque
    literals:
      - password=Ansible123!!     👈👈👈
...

Prepare directories for Persistent Volumes defined in base/pv.yaml.

sudo mkdir -p /data/postgres
sudo mkdir -p /data/projects
sudo chown 1000:0 /data/projects

Deploy AWX

Deploy AWX, this takes few minutes to complete.

kubectl apply -k base

Once this completed, the logs of deployment/awx-operator end with:

--------------------------- Ansible Task Status Event StdOut  -----------------
PLAY RECAP *********************************************************************
localhost                  : ok=42   changed=0    unreachable=0    failed=0    skipped=31   rescued=0    ignored=0
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Required objects has been deployed in awx namespace.

$ kubectl get all -n awx
NAME                       READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
pod/awx-postgres-0         1/1     Running   0          131m
pod/awx-545c885884-62qxd   4/4     Running   0          131m

NAME                   TYPE        CLUSTER-IP    EXTERNAL-IP   PORT(S)        AGE
service/awx-postgres   ClusterIP   None          <none>        5432/TCP       131m
service/awx-service    NodePort    10.43.34.90   <none>        80:30882/TCP   131m

NAME                  READY   UP-TO-DATE   AVAILABLE   AGE
deployment.apps/awx   1/1     1            1           131m

NAME                             DESIRED   CURRENT   READY   AGE
replicaset.apps/awx-545c885884   1         1         1       131m

NAME                            READY   AGE
statefulset.apps/awx-postgres   1/1     131m

Now AWX is available at https://<awx-host>/.