Chapter 2. Configuring the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Operator on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform

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. Select the Details tab.
5. 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.

7. Click YAML view and paste the following:

   spec:
     database:
       resource_requirements:
         requests:
           cpu: 200m
           memory: 512Mi
       storage_requirements:
         requests:
           storage: 100Gi
   
     controller:
       disabled: false
   
     eda:
       disabled: false
   
     hub:
       disabled: false
       storage_type: file
       file_storage_storage_class: <read-write-many-storage-class>
       file_storage_size: 10Gi

8. Click Create.

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-2.5.
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.

1. Log in to Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform.
2. Navigate to Networking Routes
3. Click the link under Location for Ansible Automation Platform.
4. This redirects you to the Ansible Automation Platform login page. Enter "admin" as your username in the Username field.

5. For the password you need to:

   1. Go to to Workloads Secrets.
   2. Click <your instance name>-admin-password and copy the password.
   3. Paste the password into the Password field.
6. Click Login.

7. Apply your subscription:

   1. Click Subscription manifest or Username/password.
   2. Upload your manifest or enter your username and password.
   3. Select your subscription from the Subscription list.
   4. Click Next.
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8. Click Next.
9. Select the I agree to the terms of the license agreement checkbox.
10. Click Next.