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Chapter 11: Update Ansible Tower guide and discuss AWX

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The instructions for installing Ansible Tower in Chapter 11 on page 303.

Says to run the command `vagrant init tower http://vms.ansible.com/ansible-tower-2.3.1-\ virtualbox.box’

This box is broken and fails to build halting on the following error:

The following SSH command responded with a non-zero exit status. Vagrant assumes that this means the command failed!

yum install -y centos-release

I managed to find a working Tower box by running vagrant init ansible/tower and managed to get an instance installed. But, then I needed to request a license from RedHat. I followed the indicated links and supposedly requested a license. However, I had to wait an hour and only received a link from RedHat to download a tar.tz for Tower. No license was ever provided.

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geerlingguycommented, May 13, 2020

For the short term, I’m adding a notice on the Tower section in Chapter 11 that mentions the example is not quite up to date and I’m working on it. That’s better than misleading people through half the broken example! The notice will be in 1.23, and I’ll try to get the Tower sections updated by 1.24. (There’s a lot that will go into that, also, discussing the Ansible Automation Platform in its entirety!)

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geerlingguycommented, Jul 22, 2020

This has been updated in the manuscript and will be available in the next book revision. Thanks again for raising the issue!