Introducing Ansible AWX and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
This chapter will examine two graphical interfaces for Ansible: the commercial Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and the open source Ansible AWX – or to give it its full name, Ansible Web eXecutable.
This chapter will focus on the open source Ansible AWX because it is freely available and, outside of the resources required to run the tool, requires no upfront costs or contracts.
We will discuss how to install Ansible AWX and why you would want to use it. After all, we are 16 chapters into our journey with Ansible and haven’t needed to use a graphical interface yet – so why now?
By the end of this chapter, we will have done the following:
- Discussed Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform versus Ansible AWX
- Installed and configured Ansible AWX
- Deployed our Microsoft Azure cloud application using Ansible AWX
