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How to Install Ansible AWX on Kubernetes Cluster | Open Source Ansible Tower
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Jun 10, 2025
In this step-by-step video, we will show you **how to install Ansible AWX on a Kubernetes Cluster** — the open-source version of **Red Hat Ansible Tower**. By the end of this tutorial, you will have a fully functional **AWX instance** running in your Kubernetes environment. --- ### 📌 **What is AWX?** * AWX is the upstream open-source project of Red Hat Ansible Tower. * It provides a web-based UI, REST API, and task engine for managing your Ansible automation. * It allows you to manage inventories, credentials, and jobs — all from a centralized dashboard. * Best of all, it's **free and open-source!** --- ### 🧰 **Prerequisites:** ✅ Running Kubernetes cluster (Minikube, Kind, or Production-grade) ✅ `kubectl` configured ✅ Helm v3 installed
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hey everyone welcome back to the channel
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your goto place for Linux DevOps and
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Kubernetes tutorials in this video we
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are going to show you how to install
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Enible AWX on Kubernetes cluster the
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opensource version of Enable Tower by
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Redhead by the end of this video you
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will have a fully functional AWX
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instance up and running inside your
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Kubernetes environment let's get started
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before we jump into the installation
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let's quickly understand what AWX is awx
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is the upstream and open-source project
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for Reddit Nible Tower it provides web-
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based UI REST API and the task engine to
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manage your NCL playbooks and
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infrastructure automation it helps the
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team to manage inventory credentials and
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jobs all from the one centralized
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dashboard and best of all it's free and
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open source to follow along make sure
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you have following items ready a running
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Kubernetes cluster could be a mini cube
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production grade cluster like cube ADM
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AKS EKS and GKE you must have cubectl
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configured and working helm v3 installed
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and persistent volume support for the
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interest of time I have already prepared
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a set of EML files and the commands that
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I will use during this video i will post
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these files and the commands in the
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description for your reference let's
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begin the installation process first
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step is to add AWX operator first we
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need to add the helm of AWS operator and
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then we will use helm install to install
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this AWS operator in the Google search
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encouer click on this GitHub link it
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will take us to this
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page and we will be using this Helm
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based installation so click on the
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second link it will take us to this
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page you can copy this
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command and paste it
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here next install this AWX operator
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using the helm install command
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in this command we are creating a
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nameace AWX under this name space we are
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installing nible AWX operator hit enter
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now verify the AWX operator status can
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run the command helm
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list AWX can see that native AWX
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operator is installed under this name
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space AWX similarly you can verify the
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ports in AWS name space for that run the
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command cubectl space get space port
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space- n followed by the name space in
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our case name space is AWX hit
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enter you can see AWX operator is up and
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running as of now it is using two
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replicas in next step we need to create
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a storage class persistent to volume and
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then we will deploy AWS and why we need
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a storage class and a persistent volume
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as AWX will use postgrade as a stateful
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set and stateful set needs persistent
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volume so let's create a storage class
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i have already prepared a YML file for
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this storage
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class so the storage class name is local
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storage and it would be created under
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the name space AWX provisioner is no
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provisioner in order to create the
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storage class let's apply this
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file and the command
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cube apply F and then the EML file
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name hit enter
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you should see a storage class
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created under the name space
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AWX the output confirm that storage
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class has been created successfully next
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create a persistent
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volume for that persistent volume I have
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created this AWX PV mamel file in this
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file I am using a persistent volume name
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as posgress PV it would be created under
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the name space AWX the capacity is 10 GB
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access mode is readr once and persistent
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volume claim pulsy is written it will
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use the storage class name as local
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storage and we will be using a host path
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and this path is on the worker node we
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need to make sure that this mnt/ storage
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folder exist on the worker nodes if it
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is not there you should create it so
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this is my worker node if I do ls-
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ld
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mnt and then
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storage I can see in my case on the
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worker node this folder is there all
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right moving back to the control plane
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now apply this file in order to create
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this persistent volume and the command
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cubectl apply - f awx - pv.mml
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file now verify whether the persistent
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volume is created or not run the command
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cubectl get pv - n and the name space
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awx great i can see this persistent
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volume of size 10 GB with access mode
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arrow is available now that the operator
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storage and persistent volume are
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installed let's create the AWS custom
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resource that defines your AWS
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deployment create a ML file with the
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name enable AWX
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mamel in this ML file as you can see the
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kind is AWX name is anible - awx it
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would be installed under the name space
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AWX service type is node port and the
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postgrade storage class is local hyphen
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storage now deploy the AWS instance
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using this file run the command
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cubectl apply - f inible awx.tml hit
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enter output confirms that it has been
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applied and created
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successfully wait for a couple of
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minutes and monitor the status of ports
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operator and the service in AWX name
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space for that you can run the command
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cubectl get ports - n
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awx - w
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Great the output confirms that it has
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completed a job with the name encable
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AWS
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migration it has started a postgra port
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and the status is running it has also
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started AWS task with four replica count
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and the status is running similarly with
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AWX web with the replica count three and
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status is up and running now let's
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verify service status as
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well all right this output confirms that
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it has started all the ports it has
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exposed the deployment like nible AWX
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postgrade using the cluster IP it has
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exposed this AWX-N service with the type
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node port this is the node port we will
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be using this node port in order to
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access this anible AWX GUI similarly the
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stateful set for this enable AWX post
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gray is up and running all right if
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everything looks good you can now access
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the AWS web interface via the IP address
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of control plane or the worker node
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let me get the IP address of my control
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plane using the command IP space add
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space
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so this is the IP address of my control
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plane and this is the node port for my
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AWX web open the
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browser type the IP here
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192.168 35
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colon port
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number so when we install AWX it
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automatically create a user admin and
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its password in order to get the admin
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users password we need to run a command
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so go back to the control plane CLI part
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first run this
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command so this is a secret where the
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admin user password is stored now in
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order to extract the
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password copy this password head back to
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the web browser in the username field
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type admin and paste the password that
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you have just copied
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and click on
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login once you logged in you will see
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the MCLE AWS dashboard where you can add
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inventories create credentials and
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manage and create
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jobs one important thing do not forget
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to configure the persistent backups and
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external database storage for the
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production deployments you can also
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integrate with the Git repos for secrets
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and more advanced features in AWS that's
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all from this video tutorial i hope you
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are able to deploy ensible AWX on your
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Kubernetes cluster smoothly with this
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powerful tool you can automate and
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manage your infrastructure like a pro
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using a beautiful web UI if you found
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the next one bye
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