Appendix B

Getting Started with Ansible Tower

In this book you’ve learned how to work with Ansible from the command line, or Ansible Engine as Red Hat refers to it. Although working with Ansible from the command line offers you all that you may ever need, there is an alternative that enables you to manage Ansible from a web-based environment. This solution is known as Ansible Tower. You won’t find one single question about Ansible Tower on the exam, but the solution is too important to completely ignore it, which is why in this appendix I introduce you to working with Ansible Tower. This appendix covers the following topics:

  • Understanding Ansible Tower

  • Installing Ansible Tower

  • Installing AWX

  • Managing Nodes with Ansible Tower

  • Understanding Ansible ...

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