Why am I Unable to use Ping from Execution Environments on Ansible Automation Platform?
Issue
It is not possible to ping from an execution environment (EE) running on an AAP node (e.g. controller or execution node).
This currently occurs in AAP versions <= 2.1.1
Environment
Red Hat supported AAP EE's do not include the ping application by default. The tool is part of the network monitoring tools package ip-utils and can be installed in a custom EE if required. See the AAP documentation for details on creating custom ee's with ansible-builder.
This issue relates to custom EE's which have the ping application installed, which are running on an AAP node and are attempting to use the ping application to send ICMP packets to an IP address outside of the EE. The ICMP packets will not be sent out of the container and ping will return an error like Destination Port Unreachable or no ICMP response is received.
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