When we ran an example playbook from the command line, we created our inventory file and then our playbook and then ran it using the ansible-playbook command. All of this, of course, assumed that we had already set up connectivity to the remote system by way of either specifying a password interactively or through the setup of SSH keys.
Although the end result in AWX is very similar—playbooks are run against an inventory—the terminology and naming are rather different. In this part of this chapter, we will walk through the process of getting your first playbook up and running from AWX. Although we don't have space in this book to give a complete rundown on every feature AWX has to offer, this section intends to give you sufficient knowledge and confidence to start managing your playbooks from AWX, and to explore further on your...
