Pre-build images (pre-install Automation controller, and anything else we can do ahead of time)

[IPvSean]

Problem Summary

Provisioning's slowest part is installing Automation controller. If we pre-install this and publish AMIs we can significantly reduce provision time.

From initial testing:

This is time savings 9 minutes 54 seconds!

Issue Type

Feature Request

Extra vars file

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Ansible Playbook Output

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Ansible Version

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Ansible Configuration

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Ansible Execution Node

CLI Ansible (Ansible Core)

Operating System

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[IPvSean]

this PR adds this ability to devel https://github.com/ansible/workshops/pull/1664

[IPvSean]

this is now integrated into RHPDS