I was pretty excited about AWX, we had finally deployed a few things to provide some of the functionality (Rundeck and some custom runners, also tried but decided against StackStorm since it has no role based task limits in the non-enterprise version).

I gave Jeff's (author of this piece) Ansible role a try and had an AWX system up and running quickly. He's making some really nice Ansible roles.

But I had no luck with AWX. I think if you are using entirely platforms that are supported directly by AWX (OpenStack/AWS/Azure), you might be fine. We run 80% of our stack on Ganeti, and have a custom inventory script that AWX seems entirely unable to use. Even distiling that dynamic inventory down into a static inventory isn't working in my testing because it wants our Vault password to load the inventory, and the inventory task doesn't allow for associating vault credentials. Nor does it seem to provide the boto credentials needed by our dynamic inventory script, even though it has a spot for providing AWS credentials.

I want to try it one more time to see if I can find a combination of static inventory that doesn't need the Vault.

But at the moment, the Rundeck weirdness with our inventory is less than the AWX weirdness, so that is our solution. I'm sure I'm just not getting something about AWX, but I've spent a day with the docs and made no real progress.

It's awesome to have available as an option. I wanted to get Tower but could never secure the funding for it, largely because it was a big unknown.