Awx: Missing Python module openshift in image ansible/awx_task:latest

[devops-42]

ISSUE TYPE

• Bug Report

COMPONENT NAME

• Installer

SUMMARY

I played around with the k8s plugin in Ansible and set up an according project on AWX. The playbook contains a task for creating an OpenShift namespace. My configured job aborted with an error:

"msg": "This module requires the OpenShift Python client. Try pip install openshift"

Due to user restrictions in OpenShift I'm not able to install the Python module manually.

ENVIRONMENT

• AWX version: 2.0.1
• AWX install method: openshift/minishift
• Ansible version: 2.7.0
• Operating System: macOS
• Web Browser: Chrome

STEPS TO REPRODUCE

• Install AWX on OpenShift/MiniShift
• Create an ansible git project containing this task:

- name: Create a k8s namespace
  k8s:
    host: <OPENSHIFT_HOST_IP>
    username: <OPENSHIFT_USER>
    password: <OPENSHIFT_PASSWORD>
    name: sampleproject
    api_version: v1
    kind: Namespace
    state: present

• Set up project, inventory
• Create and run job

EXPECTED RESULTS

• AWX interacts with my OpenShift/MiniShift environment, i.e. the k8s plugin is fully usable.

ACTUAL RESULTS

• Job aborts with error:
  "msg": "This module requires the OpenShift Python client. Try pip install openshift"

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

[wenottingham]

At this time, we do not provide dependencies for the entire set of shipped-with-Ansible modules in the environment. (If I'm recalling right, doing so would actually lead to python conflicts).

The normal way to do this is to create a custom image with a virtual environment that contains the updated python libraries.

However, in the case of running in OpenShift, it may be considered expected that the ability to talk to openshift would be there. We can look at it.