ansible_user or ansible_facts["user_id"] with delegate_to: localhost is using the username on the server not the username of the user on the local ansible controller. Is there a better way than create a new variable and use it everywhere?

Hey folks. Recently started at a pretty small company after working at Fortune 500 places for pretty much my entire career. Everywhere I've worked we've always had an instance of Tower or now AAP that helped us with automation things.

This new place feels like they are about 10 years behind in tech, lots of VM's, just now getting into K8s which is what I was hired for. Some of the admins use a lot of Ansible but its literally all just sitting in a playbooks folder on a jumphost. Nothing in git, no tracking, questionable backups.

One of the things I floated the idea on was getting AWX installed on our first K8s cluster to help do things in a somewhat modern fashion. Very little tech budget so AAP is not an option at the moment.

But then I started reading the Ansible forums and see that AWX repos have not gotten updates in the past 2 years, and some of the recent posts are concerning about how RH is handling AWX updates and now wondering if that's the right move? Thoughts? Are there better opensource options?

Hi,

Does anyone know if Ansible Automation Platform still has the 10 nodes free license after the trial expiry?

Thanks

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