Since yesterday's announcement that Ansible had released the code behind Ansible Tower, AWX, under an open source license, I've been working on an AWX Ansible role, a demo AWX Vagrant VM, and an AWX Ansible Container project.

As part of that last project, I have published two public Docker Hub images, awx_web and awx_task , which can be used with a docker-compose.yml file to build AWX locally in about as much time as it takes to download the Docker images:

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/geerlingguy/awx-container/master/docker-compose.yml docker-compose up -d

After docker-compose is finished, wait a couple minutes for the initial database migration to run, then you should be able to access AWX at http://localhost/ (the default login is admin / password ):

You can find out all the details as to how this works, and how you can build the Docker images yourself using Ansible Container in the project repository: AWX (Built with Ansible Container).