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Ansible AWX - What AWX stands for?

I just wonder what AWX of Ansible AWX (Ansible Tower upstream project) stands for?

Something or just 3 cool letters?

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itshorty Avatar asked Aug 20 '20 16:08

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AWX in Ansible AWX stands for Ansible WorX

It is found inside this commit https://github.com/ansible/awx/commit/5c6895e6065a81f4483dfb6bc7650706f8866e1e

They used an X instead of ks

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Chilarai Avatar answered Oct 22 '22 08:10

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