Before we look at installing the tools, we should first take the time to discuss why we need them and also the differences between them.
I am sure you are starting to notice a common thread between all of the playbooks we have covered so far—where possible, we are allowing the roles we are running to use as many parameters as possible. This makes it easy for us to change the output of the playbook run without having to rewrite or edit the roles directly. For this reason, it should also be easy for us to start using one of the two web-based tools provided by Red Hat for managing your Ansible deployments.
Ansible Tower is a commercially licensed, web-based graphical interface for Ansible. As already mentioned, you might be struggling to see the value in this. Imagine being able to hook Ansible up to your company's active directory and have users, such...