Managing Enterprise Automation with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

Procedure 2.4. Instructions

1. Navigate to https://controller.lab.example.com and log in as the admin user with redhat as the password.

2. Add two automation controller users with the following information:

   Field	Value for the first user	Value for the second user
   First Name	Oliver	Ophelia
   Last Name	Stone	Dunham
   Email	oliver@lab.example.com	ophelia@lab.example.com
   Username	oliver	ophelia
   Password	redhat123	redhat123
   Confirm Password	redhat123	redhat123
   User Type	Normal User	Normal User
   Organization	Default	Default

   1. Navigate to Access → Users and then click Add. Create the oliver user with the following information. When finished, click Save to create the new user.

      Field	Value
      First Name	Oliver
      Last Name	Stone
      Email	oliver@lab.example.com
      Username	oliver
      Password	redhat123
      Confirm Password	redhat123
      User Type	Normal User
      Organization	Default

   2. Navigate to Access → Users and then click Add. Create the ophelia user with the following information. When finished, click Save to create the new user.

      Field	Value
      First Name	Ophelia
      Last Name	Dunham
      Email	ophelia@lab.example.com
      Username	ophelia
      Password	redhat123
      Confirm Password	redhat123
      User Type	Normal User
      Organization	Default

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3. Create an automation controller team called Operations using Ops Team as the description. The new team must belong to the Default organization.

   1. Navigate to Access → Teams and then click Add.

   2. Create the team using the following information. When finished, click Save to create the new team.

      Field	Value
      Name	Operations
      Description	Ops Team
      Organization	Default

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4. Add Oliver as a Member to the Operations team.

   1. Navigate to Access → Teams and then click the link for the Operations team.

   2. Click the Access tab and then click Add.

   3. Select Users and then click Next.

   4. Select oliver and then click Next.

   5. Select Member and then click Save to assign the role.

   6. The Access page for the Operations team indicates that Oliver has the Member user role and the Read team role.

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5. Add Ophelia as an Admin to the Operations team.

   1. From the Access page for the Operations team, click Add.

   2. Select Users and then click Next.

   3. Select ophelia and then click Next.

   4. Select Admin and then click Save to assign the role.

   5. The Access page for the Operations team indicates that Ophelia has the Admin user role and the Read team role.

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6. Add a private automation hub group called Container Developers. Assign all of the permissions in the Containers category to the new Container Developers group.

   1. Navigate to https://hub.lab.example.com and log in as the admin user with redhat as the password.

   2. Navigate to User Access → Groups and then click Create. Enter Container Developers in the Name field and then click Create to create the new group.

   3. Click Edit. Add all of the permissions in the Containers category and then click Save.

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7. Add a private automation hub user using the information in the following table. When finished, log out of the private automation hub web UI.

   Field	Value
   Username	carlos
   First name	Carlos
   Last name	Cortez
   Email	carlos@lab.example.com
   Password	redhat123
   Password confirmation	redhat123
   Groups	Container Developers
   User type	Not a super user

   1. Navigate to User Access → Users and then click Create. Create the carlos user with information in the previous table. When finished, click Save to create the new private automation hub user.

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8. From a terminal window, use the skopeo command to identify the version and release of the private automation hub ansible-automation-platform-22/ee-supported-rhel8:latest container image.

   To do this, access the container repository on hub.lab.example.com as the newly created carlos user.

   1. Use the skopeo login command to log in to private automation hub as carlos using redhat123 as the password.

      [student@workstation ~]$ skopeo login hub.lab.example.com
      Username: carlos
      Password: redhat123
      Login Succeeded!

      Note

      If running the skopeo login command produces a message indicating that you are already logged in, then run the skopeo logout hub.lab.example.com command and then attempt to log in again as the carlos user.

   2. Reduce the amount of typing in the following skopeo commands by setting a variable:

      [student@workstation ~]$ REPO=ansible-automation-platform-22/ee-supported-rhel8

   3. Use the skopeo inspect command to display information about the ansible-automation-platform-22/ee-supported-rhel8:latest container image on private automation hub. Use the --format "{{ .Labels.version }}-{{ .Labels.release }}" option to only display the version and release of the container image.

      [student@workstation ~]$ skopeo inspect docker://hub.lab.example.com/${REPO} \
      > --format "{{ .Labels.version }}-{{ .Labels.release }}"
      1.0.0-99

      Important

      When not specified, container images default to using the latest tag.

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9. Using the private automation hub web UI, add a new tag to the ansible-automation-platform-22/ee-supported-rhel8:latest container image. Use information about the version and release of the container image obtained in the previous step to create the tag using the format of "VERSION-RELEASE". For example, the ansible-automation-platform-22/ee-29-rhel8:latest container image would use the 1.0.0-119 tag, where 1.0.0 is the version, and 119 is the release.

   1. Navigate to Execution Environments → Execution Environments and then click the link for the ansible-automation-platform-22/ee-supported-rhel8 container repository.

   2. From the Images tab, click the vertical ellipsis icon and select Manage tags. Add the 1.0.0-99 tag to ansible-automation-platform-22/ee-supported-rhel8, save your changes, and close the Manage tags window.

   3. Navigate to admin → Logout to exit the private automation hub web UI.

      Note

      Instead of using the private automation hub web UI, you could add the 1.0.0-99 container image tag by using the skopeo copy command:

      [student@workstation ~]$ skopeo copy docker://hub.lab.example.com/${REPO} \
      > docker://hub.lab.example.com/${REPO}:1.0.0-99
      ...output omitted...

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10. Use the skopeo list-tags command to verify that the ansible-automation-platform-22/ee-supported-rhel8 container repository uses the 1.0.0-99 tag.

    [student@workstation ~]$ skopeo list-tags docker://hub.lab.example.com/${REPO}
    {
        "Repository": "hub.lab.example.com/ansible-automation-platform-22/ee-supported-rhel8",
        "Tags": [
            "1.0",
            "1.0.0",
            "1.0.0-99",
            "latest"
        ]
    }

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