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    The document discusses two Ansible management tools - Ansible AWX and Ansible Tower. Ansible AWX is an open-source tool that provides a web interface and API for managing Ansible playbooks and inventories. It has no support but is free to use. Ansible Tower is a commercial tool from Red Hat that offers support and more features but requires a paid license. Both tools can be used to centrally manage Ansible automation from a web interface.

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    The document discusses two Ansible management tools - Ansible AWX and Ansible Tower. Ansible AWX is an open-source tool that provides a web interface and API for managing Ansible playbooks and inventories. It has no support but is free to use. Ansible Tower is a commercial tool from Red Hat that offers support and more features but requires a paid license. Both tools can be used to centrally manage Ansible automation from a web interface.

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    The document discusses two Ansible management tools - Ansible AWX and Ansible Tower. Ansible AWX is an open-source tool that provides a web interface and API for managing Ansible playbooks and inventories. It has no support but is free to use. Ansible Tower is a commercial tool from Red Hat that offers support and more features but requires a paid license. Both tools can be used to centrally manage Ansible automation from a web interface.

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    The document discusses two Ansible management tools - Ansible AWX and Ansible Tower. Ansible AWX is an open-source tool that provides a web interface and API for managing Ansible playbooks and inventories. It has no support but is free to use. Ansible Tower is a commercial tool from Red Hat that offers support and more features but requires a paid license. Both tools can be used to centrally manage Ansible automation from a web interface.

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    Complete Ansible Automation Training

    Ansible
    Management Tools
    Ansible Management Tools
    • Ansible management tool provides centralized web interface to manage your playbooks,
    inventories and everything you do through a command line

    • These tools also manage multiple Ansible control nodes

    • There are 2 Ansible management tools


    • Ansible AWX (Free)
    • Ansible Tower (Licensed product)

    By: Imran Afzal


    www.utclisolutions.com
    Ansible AWX
    • AWX stands for Ansible WorkX

    • AWX is a web application that provides a user interface, REST API, and task engine for Ansible

    • The AWX allows you to manage Ansible playbooks, inventories, run reports and schedule jobs

    • Ansible AWX is an open-source, community driven management tool

    • It is the upstream product, meaning all the changes are done on AWX first before it get to Ansible
    Tower

    • The AWX Project is hosted on GitHub and Red Hat welcomes community contributions.

    • The AWX project uses GitHub for its issue tracking as well. You can file your issues here:
    • https://github.com/ansible/awx/issues

    • Red Hat does NOT recommend AWX for production environments.


    By: Imran Afzal
    www.utclisolutions.com
    Ansible AWX
    Ansible AWX Pros and Cons

    • Pros
    • Full enterprise features and functionality of Tower
    • This is available for free download and use
    • Not limited the number of nodes to be added
    • Great for POC/dev/lab or QA environments

    • Cons
    • No technical support by Red Hat
    • Multiple releases in a single day are possible
    • Not recommended by Red Hat to be used in production environments.

    By: Imran Afzal


    www.utclisolutions.com
    Ansible AWX
    Ansible AWX Install (Please note: AWX is deployed from the docker containers)
    • Update the system
    # yum update –y

    • Reboot
    # reboot

    • Install epel-release repository


    # yum/dnf install epel-release

    • Install additional packages


    # dnf install git gcc gcc-c++ ansible nodejs gettext device-mapper-persistent-data
    lvm2 bzip2 python3-pip

    • Add docker repository


    # dnf config-manager --add-repo=https://download.docker.com/linux/centos/docker-ce.repo

    • Install Docker
    # dnf install docker-ce --nobest –y
    # dnf install docker-ce --nobest --allowerasing

    • Check Docker version


    # docker --version By: Imran Afzal
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    Ansible AWX
    • Start docker
    # systemctl start docker

    • Enable docker at boot


    # systemctl enable docker

    • Install docker-compose
    # pip3 install docker-compose

    • Verify the docker-compose version


    # docker-compose --version

    • Set python command to use python3


    # alternatives --set python /usr/bin/python3

    • Download the latest version of Ansible AWX from the Git Hub repository
    # git clone https://github.com/ansible/awx.git

    • Generate a secret key for encryption of the inventory file and copy the output to a text file
    # openssl rand -base64 30

    By: Imran Afzal


    www.utclisolutions.com
    Ansible AWX
    • Change directory to and edit inventory file
    # awx/installer
    OR # awx/tools/docker-compose
    # vim inventory

    • Add or modify the following parameters


    [all:vars]
    dockerhub_base=ansible
    awx_task_hostname=awx
    awx_web_hostname=awxweb
    postgres_data_dir="/var/lib/pgdocker"
    host_port=80
    host_port_ssl=443
    docker_compose_dir="/root/awx/tools/docker-compose"
    pg_username=awx
    pg_password=awxpass
    pg_database=awx
    pg_port=5432
    pg_admin_password=password
    rabbitmq_password=awxpass
    rabbitmq_erlang_cookie=cookiemonster
    admin_user=admin
    admin_password=password
    create_preload_data=True
    secret_key=R+kbcDEUS8DlAftAbfWafVqLZ0lUy+Paqo4fEtgp
    awx_official=true
    awx_alternate_dns_servers="8.8.8.8,8.8.4.4"
    project_data_dir=/var/lib/awx/projects
    By: Imran Afzal
    www.utclisolutions.com
    Ansible AWX
    • Create directory for postgress
    # mkdir /var/lib/pgdocker

    • Install AWX
    # ansible-playbook -i inventory install.yml

    • Open Firefox on your Linux


    # http://localhost

    By: Imran Afzal


    www.utclisolutions.com
    Ansible AWX

    By: Imran Afzal


    www.utclisolutions.com
    Ansible Tower
    • Ansible Tower is a commercial Ansible management product by Red hat which comes with
    support from Red Hat as well

    • Red Hat Ansible Tower is available in two editions that are differentiated by support and
    features. Pricing is based on the number of nodes (systems, hosts, instances, VMs, containers or
    devices) that you are managing

    1. Standard
    2. Premium
    https://www.ansible.com/products/pricing

    By: Imran Afzal


    www.utclisolutions.com
    Ansible Tower
    Ansible Tower Pros and Cons:

    • Pros
    • 24hrs full technical support
    • Release cycles
    • Fully tested for quality and engineering issues before release
    • Install/upgrades are well-documented and supported

    • Cons:
    • Expensive
    • You may need more than 10 nodes for a dev/POC environment
    • May be overkill for what you are trying to do.

    By: Imran Afzal


    www.utclisolutions.com
    Ansible Tower
    Ansible Tower Installation

    • https://access.redhat.com/products/ansible-tower-red-hat

    By: Imran Afzal


    www.utclisolutions.com
    Ansible Tower

    By: Imran Afzal


    www.utclisolutions.com

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