Chainguard Container for awx

Chainguard image for AWX. Built on top of Ansible, AWX is an automation controller that provides a web based interface, REST API, and task engine.

Chainguard Containers are regularly-updated, secure-by-default container images.

Download this Container Image

For those with access, this container image is available on cgr.dev:

docker pull cgr.dev/ORGANIZATION/awx:latest

Be sure to replace the ORGANIZATION placeholder with the name used for your organization's private repository within the Chainguard Registry.

Compatibility Notes

Chainguard's AWX image is meant to serve as a drop-in replacement for the official AWX image. There is, however, a warning that can come up when using our image as non-root:

/usr/bin/launch_awx_task.sh: line 4: /etc/passwd: Permission denied

This originates from a known open issue with AWX, although it does not affect the functionality of the image. Chainguard's image already configures the awx user with the permissions they later set dynamically. For further reference, take a look at the explanation from the upstream project here.The entrypoint script dynamically checks and adds the user to /etc/passwd only if the UID ≥ 500 and not already present. Although it's not generally recommended, you can run the Chainguard image as root to avoid this warning until the problem is fixed.

Prerequisites

In order to follow the example in this overview, you will need to have the following in place.

• A Kubernetes cluster.
• kubectl installed and configured to access the Kubernetes cluster.
• Helm: Installed and configured.
• An Ansible playbook If you are using outside of the AWX Operator environment

Getting Started

Before getting started with AWX, we'll need to deploy the operator. To deploy the AWX operator, follow the steps outlined by upstream here.

If you are unsure of how to deploy Chainguard's AWX Image, use this manifest as a reference, and modify for your use. Apply the manifest after the operator has been successfully deployed, and is in a ready state.

cat <<EOF | kubectl -n awx apply -f -
apiVersion: awx.ansible.com/v1beta1
kind: AWX
metadata:
  name: awx-demo
spec:
  image: cgr.dev/ORGANIZATION/awx
  image_version: latest
  image_pull_policy: Always
EOF

Documentation and Resources

You can learn more about AWX by following the official documentation. Additionally, you may ifnd the API reference to be of interest.

What are Chainguard Containers?

Chainguard's free tier of Starter container images are built with Wolfi, our minimal Linux undistro.

All other Chainguard Containers are built with Chainguard OS, Chainguard's minimal Linux operating system designed to produce container images that meet the requirements of a more secure software supply chain.

The main features of Chainguard Containers include:

• Minimal design, without unnecessary software bloat
• Daily builds to ensure container images are up-to-date with available security patches
• High quality build-time SBOMs attesting to the provenance of all artifacts within the image
• Verifiable signatures provided by Sigstore
• Reproducible builds with Cosign and apko (read more about reproducibility)

For cases where you need container images with shells and package managers to build or debug, most Chainguard Containers come paired with a development, or -dev, variant.

In all other cases, including Chainguard Containers tagged as :latest or with a specific version number, the container images include only an open-source application and its runtime dependencies. These minimal container images typically do not contain a shell or package manager.

Although the -dev container image variants have similar security features as their more minimal versions, they include additional software that is typically not necessary in production environments. We recommend using multi-stage builds to copy artifacts from the -dev variant into a more minimal production image.

Need additional packages?

To improve security, Chainguard Containers include only essential dependencies. Need more packages? Chainguard customers can use Custom Assembly to add packages, either through the Console, chainctl, or API.

To use Custom Assembly in the Chainguard Console: navigate to the image you'd like to customize in your Organization's list of images, and click on the Customize image button at the top of the page.

Learn More

Refer to our Chainguard Containers documentation on Chainguard Academy. Chainguard also offers VMs and Libraries — contact us for access.

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