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In this day and age, it should always be possible to connect your servers to official OS repositories (RHEL for example) as these repos have been highly vetted and are used worldwide. In fact I would argue it’s truly not worth it. It is now much more complicated to attempt to gather all package dependencies. WARNING: Ansible Tower installation package has changed since this blog was originally written.

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This article shows you how to prepare a true “offline” Ansible Tower installation that includes every dependent package for your specific OS version. Some customers still have specific situations that for various reasons have their servers in complete “offline” mode with no access to internet and no access to an intranet mirror repository. However, I have still received a number of requests for packaging a true offline Ansible Tower install. Optimally, this is handled by Red Hat Satellite! The assumption is that you have a mirror of these repositories that are accessible from your server infrastructure. That would be redundant to duplicate all of that information. These packages cannot be included into the bundle because it would have to include all packages for each and every OS version (RHEL 8.0, 8.1, 8.3, etc).

However the bundled package, still depends on OS-based repositories for specific OS dependencies. So please read the warning in this blog!Īnsible Tower installation package exists in two forms: (1) online setup, and (2) offline bundled setup. This blog was updated using Ansible Tower 3.8.x but the next iteration of Ansible Tower will be changing again. Updated on March, 2021 as Ansible Tower installation has changed since this blog was originally posted. Create completely offline Ansible Tower bundle installation

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