Practical Ansible 2

Creating a team

Although having individual user accounts is an incredibly powerful tool, especially for enterprise use cases, it would be incredibly inconvenient and cumbersome to have to set permissions for each object (such as a job template or an inventory) on an individual basis. Every time someone joins a team, their user account has to be manually configured with the correct permissions against every object and, similarly, be removed if they leave.

AWX and Ansible Tower have the same concept of user grouping that you would find in most other RBAC systems. The only slight difference is that in the user interface, they are referred to as teams, rather than groups. However, you can create teams simply and easily and then add and remove ...