Ansible Tower / AWX provides an option to store multiple credentials in an encrypted format. It supports multiple credential types which include AWS, Google Cloud computing, Insights, Redhat CloudForms, OpenStack, Network, VMware vCenter, and Redhat Satellite. We could also add custom credential type to authenticate with other components. In the first part of the article, we […]
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AWX / Ansible Tower – Inventory & Bulk Hosts Import
AWX / Ansible Tower’s inventory is a key component to start the automation. Creating the inventory could be a lengthy process when you use the graphical user interface. AWX/Tower offers multiple methods to add the hosts into inventory. In this article, we will see that how to add the hosts in Ansible Tower/ AWX inventory using GUI and […]
Ansible Tower/AWX – Organization/Team/Users – Hierarchy
Ansible AWX/Tower offers multilevel access delegation and role-based access control to the organization. An organization is a logical collection of Users, Teams, Projects, and Inventories. It is the highest level in the AWX / Ansible Tower object hierarchy. To support multiple clients from one umbrella, you could create an organization for each client and manage multiple […]
Ansible Tower / AWX – How to Create Manual SCM Project ?
AWX / Ansible Tower offers a graphical user interface and role-based access control to make ansible for everyone. Once the AWX / Ansible Tower is deployed, the first step is to create the project to source the playbooks. AWX/Ansible Tower supports multiple SCM types like Git, Mercurial, Subversion and Redhat insights. Source control manager is not […]
Ansible – How to Install and configure AWX ?
Ansible AWX is an upstream project of Ansible Tower. To evaluate ansible Tower, you can deploy AWX and check the functionality. AWX deployment is simple if you have an existing docker environment. AWX is an opensource project and the community is offering AWX in the form of container. AWX requires multiple components like a database, Message queue, […]