Introduction

Ansible is one of the simplest configuration management and orchestration tools out there. To make things even simpler, we are going to check out Ansible Tower in this chapter. Tower provides a web-based user interface that executes Ansible's codebase. On top of that, it comes with many features including access control, security, better logging, and workflows. It has an inbuilt mechanism to schedule jobs and notify users about key events. Our favorite feature, dynamic inventory, is pre-baked into Ansible Tower, making it easier to manage cloud setups.