Missing module python-memcached in built-in venv awx

[cfelder]

ISSUE TYPE

• Bug Report

SUMMARY

I am currently working on updating @ikke-t awx_pod playbook for using awx 13.

My deployment is a bit different from the installation instructions here, but I would expect that the error below appears when using e.g. docker-compose as well.

I am using the following image: docker.io/ansible/awx:13.0.0

python-memcached is missing in /var/lib/awx/venv/awx, see log excerpt below:

  File "/var/lib/awx/venv/awx/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/core/cache/backends/memcached.py", line 151, in __init__
    import memcache
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'memcache'

ENVIRONMENT

• AWX version: 13.0.0
• AWX install method: podman / awx_pod playbook
• Ansible version: 2.9.10
• Operating System: EL8 (CentOS 8)

STEPS TO REPRODUCE

$ ansible-playbook -K -i centos-8, awx-install.yml
$ podman logs -f awx_awxweb
$ podman logs -f awx_awxtask

EXPECTED RESULTS

RESULT 2
OK

ACTUAL RESULTS

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'memcache'

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Creating a derived container using

RUN source /var/lib/awx/venv/awx/bin/activate \
  && pip install python-memcached

resolves this issue.

[cfelder]

This is not an awx issue. memcache has been dropped in awx 12 but we were still using it in awx_pod playbook.

ikke-t/awx_pod#19 resolves this issue