AWX & Ansible on Power — Enterprise Automation for IBM Power | LibrePower
--- - hosts: power_servers become: true tasks: - name: Deploy app ansible.builtin.yum: name: myapp state: latest
roles: - role: firewall - role: monitoring - role: compliance vars: arch: ppc64le
Available—ppc64le native
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AWX×Ansible

AWX
on Power

Enterprise automation for IBM Power infrastructure.
Playbooks, inventories, scheduling — native ppc64le.

Playbook execution Inventory management Job scheduling RBAC & credentials REST API & webhooks

We're bringing amazing open source tools to IBM Power.

AWX & Ansible Automation — native ppc64le, built by LibrePower.

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deploy-power.yml
# AWX Playbook — IBM Power deployment
---
- name: Deploy to Power fleet
hosts: power_servers
become: true
vars:
arch: ppc64le
env: production
compliance: stig_v2
roles:
- role: base_config
- role: security_hardening
- role: monitoring_agent
tasks:
- name: Install packages
ansible.builtin.dnf:
name: "{{ packages }}"
state: latest
- name: Configure firewall
ansible.posix.firewalld:
service: "{{ item }}"
permanent: true
state: enabled
loop: [http, https, ssh]
- name: Validate deployment
ansible.builtin.uri:
url: "https://{{ inventory_hostname }}/health"
status_code: 200
# Scheduled via AWX ✓
Playbook walkthrough

Automate your Power fleet

Scroll to walk through a real AWX playbook — from inventory targeting to deployment validation. Every step runs natively on ppc64le.

01 — Inventory

Target your Power servers

Dynamic inventories from PowerVC, HMC, or static YAML. AWX auto-discovers your Power fleet and groups by OS, LPAR, or custom tags.

AIXLinux ppc64leIBM iVIOS
02 — Variables

Environment-aware configuration

Define variables per environment, architecture, or compliance level. AWX manages credentials securely with vault integration and RBAC.

VaultRBACCredentials
03 — Roles

Reusable automation roles

Compose playbooks from battle-tested roles — base configuration, security hardening, monitoring. Share across teams through AWX projects.

GalaxyIBM collectionsGit sync
04 — Package management

Deploy packages at scale

Install, update, and manage software across your Power fleet. DNF, YUM, or IBM AIX installp — Ansible modules handle the abstraction.

dnfyuminstallp
05 — Security

Firewall & compliance

Automate firewall rules, SELinux policies, and compliance checks. Loop across services and enforce consistent security posture fleet-wide.

firewalldSTIGCIS
06 — Validation

Verify & schedule

Health checks after every deployment. AWX schedules recurring jobs, sends notifications on failure, and keeps a full audit trail.

ScheduledNotificationsAudit log
Features

Everything AWX. Native Power.

The full AWX experience — web UI, REST API, RBAC — compiled and tested for ppc64le. No emulation.

Full web UI & dashboard

Visual job management, real-time output streaming, and inventory graphs. The same AWX interface you know — running natively on your Power infrastructure.

React UI on ppc64le

RBAC & credential management

Role-based access control, encrypted credential storage, and LDAP/SAML integration. Control who runs what, on which systems, with full audit trails.

Vault + LDAP/SAML

Scheduling & workflows

Schedule recurring automation jobs, chain playbooks into multi-step workflows, and set up approvals. AWX handles orchestration so you don't have to cron.

Workflow engine

REST API & webhooks

Full REST API for programmatic control. Trigger jobs from CI/CD pipelines, Git hooks, or monitoring alerts. Integrate AWX into your existing toolchain.

OpenAPI / webhooks

IBM Power collections

Native Ansible modules for AIX, IBM i, HMC, PowerVC, and VIOS. Manage LPARs, storage, networking — your entire Power stack as code.

ibm.power_aix, ibm.power_ibmi
Managed platforms

One control plane. Every Power OS.

AWX on Power manages AIX, Linux (RHEL, SUSE, Ubuntu), IBM i, and VIOS from a single interface.

AIX 7.x
Linux ppc64le
IBM i
VIOS
HMC
quickstart.sh
# Clone LibrePower AWX for ppc64le
$ git clone https://gitlab.com/librepower/awx.git
$ cd awx

# Follow the setup guide
$ cat README.md

# AWX runs on Linux ppc64le (RHEL 8/9, Ubuntu)
# Manages: AIX, Linux, IBM i, VIOS, HMC
# Full web UI at https://your-server:8443 ✓

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AWX for ppc64le, made simple. Playbooks, inventories, RBAC — native on Power.