GCP Getting Started Guide

This section describes how to launch and connect to Ansible AWX Kit in a Google Compute environment using the available Cloud Launcher offering.

Select a zone where you want to launch the VM(such as us-east1-)
Optionally change the number of cores and amount of memory. (This defaults to 1 vCPUs and 3.75 GB ram.)
Optionally change the boot disk type and size. (This defaults to "Standard Persistent Disk" and 20 GB respectively)
Optionally change the network name and subnetwork names. Be sure that whichever network you specify has ports 22 (for ssh), 3389 (for RDP) and 80 (for HTTP) exposed.
Click Deploy when you are done. Ansible AWX (Opensource Ansible Tower alternative) will begin deploying.

A summary page displays when the compute engine is successfully deployed. Click on the Instance link to to go to the instance page .

On the instance page, click on the "SSH" button, select "Open in browser window".

Now the password for ubuntu user is set, you can connect to the VM's desktop environment from any local windows machine using RDP protocol.

To connect using RDP via Windows Machine, first note the external IP of the VM from VM details page as highlighted below

Then From you local windows machine, goto "start" menu , in the search box type and select "Remote desktop connection"

In the "Remote Desktop connection" wizard, copy the external ip and click connect

This will connect you to the VM's desktop environment. Provide "ubuntu" as the userid and the password set in step 6 to authenticate. Click OK

Now you are connected to the out of box your own ansible tower environment via Windows Machine.

To connect using RDP via Linux machine, first note the external IP of the VM from VM details page,then from your local Linux machine, goto menu , in the search box type and select "Remmina".

Note: If you don't have Remmina installed on your Linux machine, first Install Remmina as per your linux distribution.

In the "Remmina Remote Desktop Client" wizard, select the RDP option from dropdown and paste the external ip and click enter.

This will connect you to the VM's desktop environment. Provide "ubuntu" as the userid and the password set in step 6 to authenticate. Click OK

Now you are connected to the out of box Ansible AWX tower environment via Linux machine.

Login to the web interface by opening the url http://your-external-ip in your browser
Use above default username & auto-generated password

You must change the default id and password as security measures by going to admin profile page and entering new userid and password
To change the userid and password,In left pane click on Users as shown below.