Add components to an existing deployment

You can link any components of the Ansible Automation Platform, that you have already installed to a new Ansible Automation Platform instance.

About this task

The following procedure simulates a scenario where you have automation controller as an existing component and want to add automation hub and Event-Driven Ansible.

Procedure

  1. Log in to Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform.
  2. Navigate to Operators > Installed Operators.
  3. Select your Ansible Automation Platform Operator deployment.
  4. Click Subscriptions and edit your Update channel to stable-2.6.
  5. Click Details and on the Ansible Automation Platform tile click Create instance.
  6. From the Create Ansible Automation Platform page enter a name for your instance in the Name field.
    • When deploying an Ansible Automation Platform instance, ensure that auto_update is set to the default value of false on your existing automation controller instance in order for the integration to work.
  7. Click YAML view and copy in the following: 
    apiVersion: aap.ansible.com/v1alpha1
kind: AnsibleAutomationPlatform
metadata:
  name: example-aap
  namespace: aap
spec:
  database:
    resource_requirements:
      requests:
        cpu: 200m
        memory: 512Mi
    storage_requirements:
      requests:
        storage: 100Gi

  # Platform
  image_pull_policy: IfNotPresent

  # Components
  controller:
    disabled: false
    name: existing-controller-name
  eda:
    disabled: false
  hub:
    disabled: false
    ## uncomment if using file storage for Content pod
    storage_type: file
    file_storage_storage_class: <your-read-write-many-storage-class>
    file_storage_size: 10Gi

    ## uncomment if using S3 storage for Content pod
    # storage_type: S3
    # object_storage_s3_secret: example-galaxy-object-storage

    ## uncomment if using Azure storage
    1. For new components, if you do not specify a name, a default name is generated.
  8. Click Create.
  9. To access your new instance, see Accessing the platform gateway.
    Note

    If you have an existing controller with a managed Postgres pod, after creating the Ansible Automation Platform resource your automation controller instance will continue to use that original Postgres pod. If you were to do a fresh install you would have a single Postgres managed pod for all instances.