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Demystifying Ansible Automation Platform

You're reading from   Demystifying Ansible Automation Platform A definitive way to manage Ansible Automation Platform and Ansible Tower

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803244884
Length 314 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Sean Sullivan Sean Sullivan
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Getting Ansible Automation Platform Up and Running
2. Chapter 1: Introduction to Ansible Automation Platform FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Installing Ansible Automation Platform 4. Chapter 3: Installing Ansible Automation Platform on OpenShift 5. Chapter 4: Configuring Settings and Authentication 6. Part 2: Configuring AAP
7. Chapter 5: Configuring the Basics after Installation 8. Chapter 6: Configuring Role-Based Access Control 9. Chapter 7: Creating Inventory, and Other Inventory Pieces 10. Chapter 8: Creating Execution Environments 11. Chapter 9: Automation Hub Management 12. Chapter 10: Creating Job Templates and Workflows 13. Part 3: Extending Ansible Tower
14. Chapter 11: Creating Advanced Workflows and Jobs 15. Chapter 12: Using CI/CD to Interact with Automation Controller 16. Chapter 13: Integration with Other Services 17. Chapter 14: Automating at Scale with Automation Mesh 18. Chapter 15: Using Automation Services Catalog 19. Index 20. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating organizations – the root of all objects in the controller

Organizations are logical collections of objects in the Automation controller. Nearly all objects in the controller have some relation to an organization. It is the building block of everything in the Automation controller.

The following is a chart showing how organizations relate to the other objects in the Automation controller:

Figure 5.3 – An organizational relation chart

Organizations are also a delimiter in terms of access and uniqueness; if a user is a member of organization A, they are unable to use objects in organization B without becoming a member of organization B. There can be multiple job templates with the same name in a controller if they all belong to separate organizations.

Important Note

It may make more sense to use departments or different groups within a department as the basis for organizations so that each group can have its own credentials, job...

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