Epic: Automate docker static system with Ansible and AWX

[Haroon-Khel]

Turning #3306 into an epic.

What I would like to accomplish in this epic is to take our Docker Static setup and 'Ansibilise' it. The final product should be a system of playbooks and scripts which allow static container deployment via AWX or command line.

We have https://github.com/adoptium/infrastructure/blob/master/ansible/playbooks/AdoptOpenJDK_Unix_Playbook/roles/DockerStatic/tasks/main.yml, but it is monolithic. I want to create something more modular, in which a user can choose which containers to deploy, which to remove, as well as an update to date inventory file containing a list of running containers.

Objectives, not necessarily in order:

• Break down the existing monolithic DockerStatic role into something modular #3370
• Create job in AWX to deploy containers onto dockerhost machines (part of Break down the existing monolithic DockerStatic role into something modular #3370)
• Create job in AWX to remove/retire containers from dockerhost machines #3506
• Inventory file for static docker containers #3415
  • with port numbers
  • with jenkins node link
  • necessary information such as architecture, OS, etc
• Create templates for dockerfiles, removing the need to have a different file for each new release of OS
• Automate creation of node in jenkins after deploying static container #3507
• Documentation (should be done along the way)

[sxa]

OK - testing this on another aarch64 box using k3s. Noting that by default it doesn't work as non-root because exporting KUBECONFIG to be /etc/rancher/k3s/k3s.yaml is something that is not-world readable and gets reset on each restart. Also:

• A simple make deploy doesn't work because the images being pulled (quay.io/ansible/awx-operator:x.y.z) appear to be x64 only, but they'll work under qemu emulation (Not ideal for production
• Version 2.11.0 appears not to work - 2.10.0 deploys ok
• kubectl logs was close to useless (but pointed me at the arch mismatch issue) kubectl describe is your friend for better status logs until you start the actual AWX deploy when kubectl logs -f is useful

I still need to figure out how to make /Vendor_Files into the appropriate container

[Haroon-Khel]

Im going to close this epic. The 2 remaining issues can be worked on in later issues. The main objectives of this epic have been met