Change to Pinned versions for the control plane / default EE

[cigamit]

This will make it so the control plane, mesh, and default EE uses a version pinned to the version of Ascender.

[Copilot]

Pull request overview

This PR updates default Execution Environment (EE) image tags so the control plane, mesh ingress, and installer defaults can follow the Ascender version via DEFAULT_AWX_VERSION, instead of always defaulting to :latest.

Changes:

• Updated mesh ingress defaults to derive _control_plane_ee_image tag from DEFAULT_AWX_VERSION.
• Updated installer defaults to derive ee_images and _control_plane_ee_image from DEFAULT_AWX_VERSION.
• Updated the “deploying a specific version” documentation note to reflect the new EE default behavior.

Reviewed changes

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File	Description
roles/mesh_ingress/defaults/main.yml	Switches mesh ingress control-plane EE default image tag to follow DEFAULT_AWX_VERSION (fallback latest).
roles/installer/defaults/main.yml	Switches default EE registration image and control-plane EE image tag to follow DEFAULT_AWX_VERSION.
docs/user-guide/advanced-configuration/deploying-a-specific-version-of-awx.md	Updates documentation note to describe EE defaults tracking DEFAULT_AWX_VERSION.

Suppressed comments (1)

roles/installer/defaults/main.yml:292

• Deriving init container image/name via split(':')[0]/[1] breaks if the registry contains a port (e.g. my-registry:5000/repo/image:tag), producing an invalid image and version. Split from the right so only the tag is separated from the image reference.

_control_plane_ee_image: "ghcr.io/ctrliq/ascender-ee:{{ lookup('env', 'DEFAULT_AWX_VERSION') or 'latest' }}"

_init_container_image: "{{ _control_plane_ee_image.split(':')[0] }}"
_init_container_image_version: "{{ _control_plane_ee_image.split(':')[1] }}"

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Pull request overview

Copilot reviewed 3 out of 3 changed files in this pull request and generated no new comments.

Suppressed comments (4)

docs/user-guide/advanced-configuration/deploying-a-specific-version-of-awx.md:39

• This note links to a local absolute filesystem path (/home/weyerkaa/...), which won’t work for docs readers. Also, the phrasing "we are now changing" reads like a transitional statement rather than documenting the current default behavior.

**Note**: The `image` and `image_version` are intended for local mirroring scenarios. `DEFAULT_AWX_VERSION` controls the main Ascender image tag and we are now changing the execution environment default to the same pinned release for `ghcr.io/ctrliq/ascender-ee` unless you override them explicitly. For the current defaults, check [roles/installer/defaults/main.yml](/home/weyerkaa/ascender-operator/roles/installer/defaults/main.yml).

docs/user-guide/advanced-configuration/deploying-a-specific-version-of-awx.md:39

• The defaults table above still states ee_images and control_plane_ee_image default to ghcr.io/ctrliq/ascender-ee:latest, which is now inconsistent with the updated pinned defaults described here. Please update the table rows so the documented defaults match the actual defaults.

**Note**: The `image` and `image_version` are intended for local mirroring scenarios. `DEFAULT_AWX_VERSION` controls the main Ascender image tag and we are now changing the execution environment default to the same pinned release for `ghcr.io/ctrliq/ascender-ee` unless you override them explicitly. For the current defaults, check [roles/installer/defaults/main.yml](/home/weyerkaa/ascender-operator/roles/installer/defaults/main.yml).

roles/installer/defaults/main.yml:287

• The default ee_images[0].name now includes the version ("Ascender EE ({{ _image_version }})"). Because this name is written into GLOBAL_JOB_EXECUTION_ENVIRONMENTS, changing it each release can create a new execution environment name on upgrades and potentially break references to the previous default EE in existing job templates.

  - name: "Ascender EE ({{ _image_version }})"
    image: "ghcr.io/ctrliq/ascender-ee:{{ _image_version }}"

roles/mesh_ingress/defaults/main.yml:12

• This role duplicates the DEFAULT_AWX_VERSION lookup inline in _control_plane_ee_image. Defining _image_version once (as in roles/installer/defaults/main.yml) makes the default easier to keep consistent and avoids repeating the env lookup in future edits.

_control_plane_ee_image: "ghcr.io/ctrliq/ascender-ee:{{ lookup('env', 'DEFAULT_AWX_VERSION') or 'latest' }}"