What's AWX EE real usage to run ansible playbook?

Question

I installed AWX 19.5 in k8s. I found there are these pods, containers and ee by default:

Pods

• awx-postgres-0
• awx-8631936913-23hfa
• awx-operator-controller-manager-8631936913-23hfa

Containers

In awx-8631936913-23hfa:

• awx-web
• awx-task
• awx-ee
• redis

In awx-ee container, I found ansible and ansible-galaxy, etc been installed.

Execution Environments

• AWX EE (latest) - Image: quay.io/ansible/awx-ee:latest
• Control Plane Execution Environment - Image: quay.io/ansible/awx-ee:latest

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When run a job template, it seems AWX will create a new pod

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automation-job-11-abcde

Even I choose the default AWX EE (latest) as Execution Environment, the same it created new pod then deleted.

So what's the role of awx-ee container in awx-8631936913-23hfa pod? It seems even set ansible configuration and galaxy installation there won't work for jobs.

Answer 1

I also wonder why "awx-ee" and "automation-job" exist at the same time.

"automation-job" actually execute the playbooks. but awx-ee doesn't seem to do anything.

automation-job: created by pulled ee_image. (it could be customized ee_image)