Introduction to Ansible Automation Platform
Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) has many parts, with its most popular part being the Automation controller, previously known as Tower. First, we will cover the different parts of AAP and how they interact with each other.
In addition, there are multiple ways of interacting with the platform, including manually interacting with the web interface, and using Ansible modules and roles to configure different parts of the platform. These roles can be used to implement Configuration as Code (CaC).
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- AAP overview
- Key differences between upstream and official Red Hat products
- Overview of the methods that will be used in this book
- Execution environments and Ansible Navigator
