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Ansible Quick Start Guide
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Ansible Quick Start Guide

by Mohamed Alibi
September 2018
Beginner to intermediate
214 pages
5h 53m
English
Packt Publishing
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Ansible Tower

Ansible Tower is the Red Hat proprietary layer that sits on top of the Ansible project engine. It is made up of a number of add-ons and modules, composed of REST APIs and web services, that work together to create a friendly web interface that acts as an automation hub from which the IT administrator can select a number of tasks or playbooks to be executed on a number of machines. It still relies on the Ansible Engine to send commands and collect the reports. Ansible Tower cleverly collects the status of tasks and the reports that come back from hosts. All of this data is presented in the Ansible dashboard, showing hosts, the status of the inventory, and the recent jobs, activities, and snapshots:

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ISBN: 9781789532937