Cannot build the containers when the awx_devel image has already been pulled from a private repository

[jean-christophe-manciot]

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Bug Summary

1. make docker-compose-build is replaced by a docker pull ${private_registry_fqdn}:${port}/awx_devel:${awx_devel_version}.
2. make docker-compose tries to pull the awx_devel image although it has already been pulled in the previous step, resulting in an error message pull access denied for awx_devel.

AWX version

24.6.1

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• API
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Installation method

docker development environment

Modifications

yes

Ansible version

2.17.6

Operating system

Ubuntu 24.04

Web browser

No response

Steps to reproduce

git clone -b 24.6.1 https://github.com/ansible/awx.git git-awx && cd git-awx
git checkout -b $awx_devel_version 24.6.1
docker pull ${private_registry_fqdn}:${port}/awx_devel:${awx_devel_version}
export RECEPTOR_IMAGE=quay.io/ansible/receptor:v1.4.9
export COMPOSE_TAG=${awx_devel_version}
export DEVEL_IMAGE_NAME=awx_devel:${awx_devel_version}
sed -i '/^[[:blank:]]*DEV_DOCKER_TAG_BASE[[:blank:]]*?=[[:blank:]]*ghcr.io.*/d' Makefile
sed -Ei 's|^[[:blank:]]*DEVEL_IMAGE_NAME[[:blank:]]*\?=.*|DEVEL_IMAGE_NAME ?= awx_devel:$(COMPOSE_TAG)|g' Makefile
sed -Ei 's|^([[:blank:]]*-e[[:blank:]]+awx_image[[:blank:]]*=[[:blank:]]*)\$\(DEV_DOCKER_TAG_BASE\)/awx_devel[[:blank:]]*\\|\1awx_devel \\|g' Makefile
make docker-compose 

Expected results

Built & started AWX tools_* containers

Actual results

ansible-playbook -e ansible_python_interpreter=python3.11 -i tools/docker-compose/inventory tools/docker-compose/ansible/sources.yml \
    -e awx_image=awx_devel \
    -e awx_image_tag=<awx_devel_version> \
    -e receptor_image=quay.io/ansible/receptor:v1.4.9 \
    -e control_plane_node_count=1 \
    -e execution_node_count=0 \
    -e minikube_container_group=false \
    -e enable_pgbouncer=false \
    -e enable_keycloak=false \
    -e enable_ldap=false \
    -e enable_splunk=false \
    -e enable_prometheus=false \
    -e enable_grafana=false \
    -e enable_vault=false \
    -e vault_tls=false \
    -e enable_tacacs=false \
    -e enable_otel=false \
    -e enable_loki=false \
    -e install_editable_dependencies=false \
    -e pg_tls=false \
    
...

ansible-playbook -e ansible_python_interpreter=python3.11 -i tools/docker-compose/inventory tools/docker-compose/ansible/initialize_containers.yml \
    -e enable_vault=false \
    -e vault_tls=false \
    -e enable_ldap=false; \
make docker-compose-up

...

docker compose -f tools/docker-compose/_sources/docker-compose.yml  up  --remove-orphans
...
[+] Running 3/3
 ✘ postgres Error context canceled                                                                                                                       1.2s 
 ✘ redis_1 Error  context canceled                                                                                                                       1.2s 
 ✘ awx_1 Error    pull access denied for awx_devel, repository does not exist or may require 'docker login': denied: requested access to...              1.2s 
Error response from daemon: pull access denied for awx_devel, repository does not exist or may require 'docker login': denied: requested access to the resource is denied

Additional information

As shown in the Steps to reproduce, the Makefile has been modified.
The modifications are probably incomplete.
What should be done to allow this workflow?

[jean-christophe-manciot]

docker images
REPOSITORY                                TAG             IMAGE ID       CREATED       SIZE
<private_registry_fqdn>/awx_devel   <awx_devel_version>   3c83182c77ea   3 hours ago   2.11GB

[jean-christophe-manciot]

The solution is much simpler; there is no need to modify the makefile; it is enough to set the env variable DEV_DOCKER_TAG_BASE=<private_registry_fqdn>, alongside the COMPOSE_TAG.