Chapter 10. Adding execution nodes to Ansible Automation Platform Operator

Procedure

1. Log in to Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.
2. In the navigation panel, select Administration Instances.
3. Click Add.
4. Input the VM name in the Host Name field.
5. Optional: Input the port number in the Listener Port field.
6. Click Save.
7. Click the download icon next to Install Bundle. This starts a download, take note of where you save the file

8. Untar the gz file.

   Note

   To run the install_receptor.yml playbook you need to install the receptor collection from Ansible Galaxy: Ansible-galaxy collection install -r requirements.txt

9. Update the playbook with your user name and SSH private key file. Note that ansible_host pre-populates with the hostname you input earlier.

   all:
      hosts:
         remote-execution:
   	        ansible_host: example_host_name
   	        ansible_user: <username> #user provided
   	        Ansible_ssh_private_key_file: ~/.ssh/id_example

10. Open your terminal, and navigate to the directory where you saved the playbook.

11. To install the bundle run:

    ansible-playbook install_receptor.yml -i inventory

12. When installed you can now upgrade your execution node by downloading and re-running the playbook for the instance you created.