Is it supported to just clone an AnsibleTower in a virtual guest, and then run 2 Tower instances?

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Environment

  • Ansible Tower
  • virtual guests

Issue

  • Is it supported to just clone an Ansible Tower in a virtual guest, and then run 2 Tower instances?

  • Installing the guest and AnsibleTower takes quite some time, can I just clone a guest with installed tower?

Resolution

  • Cloning an installed Ansible Tower is not supported.

  • To streamline Tower installations, you should instead consider:

    • to use kickstart for provisioning of the RHEL system
    • and then scripts or Ansible to prepare the Tower installation (prepare inventors file, extract the installation directory) and then run the setup.sh file.

Root Cause

  • When installing Ansible Tower, setup.sh is executed, and with Ansible code the Ansible Tower installation is getting configured.

  • Red Hat does not support cloning of a system after that step and then running both Tower instances.

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