Trouble Shooting LDAP Authentication with Ansible AWX

 If you are having trouble getting your AWX deployment to preform authentication with LDAP you might want to make sure that the container that runs the AWX web server can talk to the LDAP server over a encrypted connection.  To do this follow these steps:

1) List your AWX pods like so:

kubectl -n awx get pods

You are looking for the pod that has the 4 containers.  In my case this is pod, awx-demo-8ded6678-gk322.  

2) "exec" onto the awx-demo-web container like so:

kubectl -n awx exec -it awx-demo-8ded6678-gk322 -c awx-demo-web -- /bin/bash 

3) Check the secure connection to the LDAP server

From the bash prompt on the container execute:

echo | openssl s_client -connect ldap.example.com:636

Check the output.  Are you getting output? You can check the dates on the certificate like so:

echo | openssl s_client -connect ldap.example.com:636 2> /dev/null | openssl x509 -noout -dates