Setting up Ansible Tower

There are multiple ways to install the Ansible Tower trial version. The simplest way to get set up is by using their existing images from https://www.ansible.com/tower-trial.

You can also set up manually using their bundle installation. Please have a look at the requirements before installing at http://docs.ansible.com/ansible-tower/3.1.4/html/installandreference/index.html.

Run the following commands to install Ansible Tower in the Ubuntu 16.04 operating system:

$ sudo apt-get install software-properties-common$ sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ansible/ansible$ wget https://releases.ansible.com/ansible-tower/setup/ansible-tower-setup-latest.tar.gz$ tar xvzf ansible-tower-setup-latest.tar.gz$ cd ansible-tower-setup-<tower_version> ...

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