How it works...
As outlined in the introduction, AWX consists of multiple components glued together in order to provide a complete framework. This means AWX can be deployed by installing each component and configuring them, then integrating all these distinct products to create the AWX framework. The other alternative is to use a container-based deployment, creating a container for each component, and gluing them together in a microservices architecture. The container-based approach is the recommended approach, and this is what we use to deploy AWX.
Since we are going to use containers, we need to orchestrate between these different components; thus, we need a container orchestration tool. AWX supports deployment over Kubernetes, OpenShift, ...
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