install ansible tower on Ubuntu 14.04

install ansible tower on Ubuntu 14.04

Here are logs when installing ansible tower on Ubuntu 14.04.

Before installing ansible tower, install ansible

# tail -1 /etc/lsb-release DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS" # apt-get install software-properties-common # apt-add-repository ppa:ansible/ansible # apt-get update # apt-get install ansible # ansible --version ansible 1.8.2  configured module search path = None

install ansible tower.

# tar xzvf ansible-tower-setup-latest.tar.gz # cd ansible-tower-setup-2.1.0/ # ./configure --local # ./configure --local ------------------------------------------- Welcome to the Ansible Tower Install Wizard ------------------------------------------- This wizard will guide you through the setup process. LOCAL INSTALLATION You are installing Ansible Tower on this machine, using an internal database. PASSWORDS For security reasons, since this is a new install, you must specify the following application passwords. Enter the desired Ansible Tower admin user password: Enter the desired Munin password: REVIEW You selected the following options: The primary Tower machine is: localhost Tower will operate on an INTERNAL database. Are these settings correct (y/n)? y Settings saved to tower_setup_conf.yml. FINISHED! You have completed the setup wizard. You may execute the installation of Ansible Tower by issuing the following command: sudo ./setup.sh

error.

# ./setup.sh TASK: [packages_ubuntu | install awx package with the apt module] ************* failed: [localhost] => {"failed": true} stderr: E: Version '2.1.0-*' for 'ansible-tower' was not found stdout: Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Reading state information... msg: 'apt-get install 'ansible-tower=2.1.0-*'' failed: E: Version '2.1.0-*' for 'ansible-tower' was not found FATAL: all hosts have already failed -- aborting PLAY RECAP ********************************************************************           to retry, use: --limit @/root/site.retry localhost                  : ok=19   changed=5    unreachable=0    failed=1    Oops!  An error occured while running setup.

How about installing the following packages?

Someone, who succeeded in setting up an ansible tower, installed following packages in advance, so I tried that.

# apt-get install python-dev python-yaml python-paramiko python-jinja2 python-pip sshpass

try again.

I still faced the same error..

TASK: [packages_ubuntu | install awx package with the apt module] ************* failed: [localhost] => {"failed": true} stderr: E: Version '2.1.0-*' for 'ansible-tower' was not found stdout: Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Reading state information... msg: 'apt-get install 'ansible-tower=2.1.0-*'' failed: E: Version '2.1.0-*' for 'ansible-tower' was not found FATAL: all hosts have already failed -- aborting PLAY RECAP ********************************************************************           to retry, use: --limit @/root/site.retry localhost                  : ok=19   changed=0    unreachable=0    failed=1    Oops!  An error occured while running setup.

Let’s see the detail information of ansible-tower.

New version 2.1.1-1 has been released.

Actually two or three weeks has been passed since I downloaded ansible tower..

# apt-cache show ansible-tower Package: ansible-tower Version: 2.1.1-1 Architecture: all Maintainer: Ansible <support@ansible.com> Installed-Size: 123341 Depends: apache2, libapache2-mod-wsgi, libzmq3, libzmq3-dev, postgresql, python, python-psycopg2, python-setuptools, python-openssl, python-ldap, python-gevent, python-passlib, python-psutil, python-zmq, supervisor, proot, redis-server, redis-tools, rsyslog, sosreport, sshpass, subversion, mercurial, git, munin, munin-node, ansible Conflicts: awx Replaces: awx Provides: awx Homepage: http://www.ansible.com/

download ansible tower 2.1.1 and install that.

okay, I was able to install ansible tower.

107  tar xzvf ansible-tower-setup-latest.tar.gz  108  cd ansible-tower-setup-2.1.1/  109  ls  110  ./configure --local  111  ./setup.sh PLAY RECAP ******************************************************************** localhost                  : ok=89   changed=52   unreachable=0    failed=0    The setup process completed successfully. Setup log saved to /var/log/tower/setup-2015-02-13-02:33:15.log

The problem was that I tried to install the old version.

# /etc/init.d/ansible-tower status Showing Tower Status 9.3/main (port 5432): online redis-server is running * apache2 is running is running

access to https:// < ansible tower IP>

I downloaded the free license key which can manage nodes up to 10 and activated that key.

how to stop ansible tower.

# /etc/init.d/ansible-tower stop Stopping Tower * Stopping PostgreSQL 9.3 database server                               [ OK ] Stopping redis-server: redis-server. * Stopping web server apache2                                                   * Stopping supervisor: supervisord. Waiting to allow supervisor time to cleanup ...