Ansible Tower/ AWX offers role-based access control for templates and workflows. It provides an option to define what kind of access needs to be given to a specific team or specific member within the organization. To automate each task, you need to create a template in Ansible Tower/ AWX. In some cases, we might create […]
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Ansible Tower / AWX – Creating New Job Template
Ansible Job template is used to incorporate the playbook in the web interface. Before start creating the template, you must create the playbook and keep it ready in the project path. We also need to create other objects like inventory, projects, and credentials to create a new job template. In this article, we will walk you […]
Ansible Tower / AWX – Store Credential & Custom Credentials Type
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 […]
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, […]
Ansible Tower (Licensed) vs Ansible AWX (Open Source)
Ansible Tower offers a graphical user interface with role-based access control method for the end users. Tower enables to use ansible engine‘s rich features to everyone including non-technical people. Ansible admin is still required to write the playbook and configure as a template to make it available for everyone and carefully delegate the work to […]
How to Encrypt Playbook using Ansible Vault ?
Ansible provides a secure mechanism to store sensitive information in an encrypted format. In some cases, we might need to supply account password or secure key in the playbook. If we store such a information in a plain text file, we could compromise system security. In this article, we will see that how to encrypt the playbook, […]
Ansible – Download Roles from Ansible Galaxy
Writing Playbooks and Roles are simple but yet to spend time for referring to the module’s man pages and need to build the logic with proper error handling. Ansible galaxy is a place where you can get the pre-written roles for various automation purposes. Galaxy hosts more than 18,000 roles written by the community members. […]