One of Ansible’s most brilliant features is Privilege Escalation, the ability to enter the context of a more privileged user following an initial connection to either your local or remote node, however a bizarre little caveat in Tower I haven’t been able find documented anywhere and it refers to the use of a system account (by default named awx) on the localhost. What Is AWX Anyway? Floating around all over . . .
I’m starting a blog about DevOps tools and technology, aimed at people who can’t work out how this stuff works and find the documentation and concepts impenetrable. After a while of teaching myself I’m starting to realise that it isn’t just me that’s struggling to figure stuff out and there’s a lot of people that don’t want to admit that they don’t understand things. I’m not sure how this is . . .