Why Project Sync Taking Considerably Longer Time After Upgrading To Ansible 2.9.13 ?

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Environment

  • Red Hat® Ansible Tower <= 3.8.x

Issue

  • The task in the project sync job: "TASK [fetch galaxy roles from requirements.yml]" takes 2 seconds to complete before Ansible version < 2.9.13 but exact same project sync after upgrading Ansible Tower node to Ansible 2.9.13 takes over 60 seconds.

Resolution

  • This change has been done since Ansible v2.9.11. You can find more information in the link Use the first galaxy server supporting v1 for roles

  • To fix this issue,

    • You need to add the server list in ansible.cfg or you can specify PRIMARY GALAXY SERVER URL in Settings Jobs to avoid communication with default galaxy.ansible.com

    • Disable "ALLOW ACCESS TO PUBLIC GALAXY" in UI (settings --> Jobs).

NOTE: "PRIMARY GALAXY SERVER URL" can be anything including your internal github server and not just the Galaxy server.

Root Cause

  • Basically the change is to find which server provides the v1 api. This is to fix the issue of Ansible not looking at public galaxy (galaxy.ansible.com) if a given role/collection is not found on Automation Hub. If you dont have a server list in the ansible.cfg or on the Tower, by default ansible.galaxy.com is taken as the server and with the PR it tries to find the api version on it.

  • You can find more information here on Configuring the ansible-galaxy client

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