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    Ansible Tower is a UI and REST API that allows users to scale IT automation and manage complex deployments. It provides role-based access control, push-button deployment access, centralized logging of all automations. Key features include workflows to chain playbooks, enterprise integrations, and centralized logging of all automation activity. Ansible Tower can be installed on RHEL or Ubuntu and requires a minimum of 2GB RAM and 20GB disk space.

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    Ansible Tower is a UI and REST API that allows users to scale IT automation and manage complex deployments. It provides role-based access control, push-button deployment access, centralized logging of all automations. Key features include workflows to chain playbooks, enterprise integrations, and centralized logging of all automation activity. Ansible Tower can be installed on RHEL or Ubuntu and requires a minimum of 2GB RAM and 20GB disk space.

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    Ansible Tower is a UI and REST API that allows users to scale IT automation and manage complex deployments. It provides role-based access control, push-button deployment access, centralized logging of all automations. Key features include workflows to chain playbooks, enterprise integrations, and centralized logging of all automation activity. Ansible Tower can be installed on RHEL or Ubuntu and requires a minimum of 2GB RAM and 20GB disk space.

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    The key takeaways are that Ansible Tower allows for scaling of IT automation through a user interface and API, with features like role-based access control, workflows, and logging.

    Ansible Tower is a UI and RESTful API that allows scaling of IT automation, managing complex deployments, and increasing productivity.

    Some key features of Ansible Tower include role-based access control, push button deployment access, centralized logging, and powerful workflows.

    AUTOMATION ACROSS

    THE ENTERPRISE
    WHAT WILL YOU LEARN?

    ● What is Ansible Tower


    ● How Ansible Tower Works
    ● Installing Ansible Tower
    ● Key Features
    WHAT IS ANSIBLE TOWER?
    Ansible Tower is a UI and RESTful API allowing
    you to scale IT automation, manage complex
    deployments and speed productivity.

    • Role-based access control

    • Deploy entire applications with


    push-button deployment access

    • All automations are centrally logged

    • Powerful workflows match your IT processes


    RBAC PUSH BUTTON RESTful API
    Allow restricting playbook access to An intuitive user interface experience With an API first mentality every
    authorized users. One team can use makes it easy for novice users to feature and function of Tower can be
    playbooks in check mode (read-only) execute playbooks you allow them API driven. Allow seamless integration
    while others have full administrative access to. with other tools like ServiceNow and
    abilities. Infoblox.

    WORKFLOWS ENTERPRISE INTEGRATIONS CENTRALIZED LOGGING


    Ansible Tower’s multi-playbook Integrate with enterprise All automation activity is securely
    workflows chain any number of authentication like TACACS+, RADIUS, logged. Who ran it, how they
    playbooks, regardless of whether they Azure AD. Setup token authentication customized it, what it did, where it
    use different inventories, run as with OAuth 2. Setup notifications with happened - all securely stored and
    different users, run at once or utilize PagerDuty, Slack and Twilio. viewable later, or exported through
    different credentials. Ansible Tower’s API.
    …. ANSIBLE CLI & CI SYSTEMS
    ANSIBLE PLAYBOOKS
    ADMINS
    ROLE-BASED KNOWLEDGE SCHEDULED &
    ANSIBLE ACCESS CONTROL & VISIBILITY CENTRALIZED JOBS
    TOWER
    SIMPLE USER INTERFACE TOWER API

    USERS

    OPEN SOURCE MODULE LIBRARY


    ANSIBLE
    ENGINE PLUGINS PYTHON CODEBASE

    TRANSPORT

    SSH, WINRM, ETC.

    INFRASTRUCTURE NETWORKS CONTAINERS CLOUD SERVICES


    AUTOMATE LINUX, ARISTA, DOCKER, AWS, DATABASES,
    YOUR WINDOWS, CISCO, LXC … GOOGLE CLOUD, LOGGING,
    ENTERPRISE UNIX … JUNIPER … AZURE … SOURCE CONTROL
    MANAGEMENT…

    USE
    CASES
    PROVISIONING CONFIGURATION APP CONTINUOUS SECURITY & ORCHESTRATION
    MANAGEMENT DEPLOYMENT DELIVERY COMPLIANCE
    INSTALLING ANSIBLE TOWER

    # the most common and preferred way of


    # installation for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
    $ wget https://bit.ly/ansibletower

    # bundled installer can be downloaded for


    # Red Hat Enterprise Linux
    $ wget https://bit.ly/ansibletowerbundle

    # looking for a specific version? navigate to


    # http://releases.ansible.com/ansible-tower
    # to see all the versions available for download
    SERVER REQUIREMENTS

    ● Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7 (and select derivatives), Ubuntu


    14.04 64-bit, and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 64-bit support required (kernel
    and runtime).
    ● A currently supported version of Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome.
    ● 2 GB RAM minimum (4+ GB RAM highly recommended)
    ● 20 GB of dedicated hard disk space
    FEATURE OVERVIEW:

    TOWER CONCEPTS
    USER MANAGEMENT

    ● A user is an account to access Ansible Tower and its services given


    the permissions granted to it.

    ● An organization is a logical collection of users, teams, projects,


    inventories and more. All entities belong to an organization with the
    exception of users.

    ● Teams provide a means to implement role-based access control


    schemes and delegate responsibilities across organizations.
    CREDENTIALS

    Credentials are utilized by Ansible Tower for authentication with various


    external resources:

    ● Connecting to remote machines to run jobs


    ● Syncing with inventory sources
    ● Importing project content from version control systems
    ● Connecting to and managing network devices

    Centralized management of various credentials allows end users to


    leverage a secret without ever exposing that secret to them.
    INVENTORY

    Inventory is a collection of hosts (nodes) with associated data and


    groupings that Ansible Tower can connect to and manage.

    ● Hosts (nodes)
    ● Groups
    ● Inventory-specific data (variables)
    ● Static or dynamic sources
    PROJECTS

    A Project is a logical collection of Ansible Playbooks, represented in


    Ansible Tower.

    You can manage Playbooks and Playbook directories by placing them in a


    source code management system supported by Ansible Tower, including
    Git, Subversion, and Mercurial.
    JOB TEMPLATES

    A job template is a definition and set of parameters for running an Ansible


    Playbook.

    Job templates are useful to execute the same job many times and
    encourage the reuse of Ansible Playbook content and collaboration
    between teams.
    JOBS

    A job is an instance of Ansible Tower launching an Ansible Playbook


    against an inventory of hosts.

    ● Job results can be easily viewed


    ● View the standard out for a more in-depth look
    ROLE BASED ACCESS CONTROL (RBAC)

    Role-Based Access Controls (RBAC) are built into Ansible Tower and
    allow administrators to delegate access to server inventories,
    organizations, and more. These controls allow Ansible Tower to help you
    increase security and streamline management of your Ansible
    automation.
    ROLE BASED ACCESS CONTROL (RBAC)

    Role-Based Access Controls (RBAC) are built into Ansible Tower and
    allow administrators to delegate access to server inventories,
    organizations, and more. These controls allow Ansible Tower to help you
    increase security and streamline management of your Ansible
    automation.
    DYNAMIC INVENTORY

    Dynamic inventory is a script that queries a service, like a cloud provider API or a
    management application. This data is formatted in an Ansible-specific JSON data
    structure and is used in lieu of static inventory files.

    ● Groups are generated based on host metadata


    ● Single source of truth saves time, avoids duplication and reduces human
    error
    ● Dynamic and static inventory sources can be used together
    FEATURE OVERVIEW:

    CONTROL
    ANSIBLE TOWER FEATURES: YOUR ANSIBLE DASHBOARD
    ANSIBLE TOWER FEATURES: JOB STATUS UPDATE
    ANSIBLE TOWER FEATURES: ACTIVITY STREAM
    ANSIBLE TOWER FEATURES: MANAGE AND TRACK YOUR INVENTORY
    ANSIBLE TOWER FEATURES: SCHEDULE JOBS
    ANSIBLE TOWER FEATURES: EXTERNAL LOGGING
    ANSIBLE TOWER FEATURES: INTEGRATED NOTIFICATIONS
    FEATURE OVERVIEW:

    DELEGATION
    ANSIBLE TOWER FEATURES: ROLE BASED ACCESS CONTROL
    USERS TEAMS
    ANSIBLE TOWER FEATURES: ROLE BASED ACCESS CONTROL

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    ANSIBLE TOWER FEATURES: SELF-SERVICE I.T.
    ANSIBLE TOWER FEATURES: REMOTE COMMAND EXECUTION
    FEATURE OVERVIEW:

    SCALE
    ANSIBLE TOWER FEATURES: CREATE AUTOMATION WORKFLOWS
    ANSIBLE TOWER FEATURES: SCALE OUT CLUSTERING
    NEXT STEPS

    GET STARTED JOIN THE COMMUNITY


    ansible.com/get-started ansible.com/community

    ansible.com/tower-trial

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