Preface

A few years ago during college, a friend introduced me to Ansible. I was taking networking classes at the time, and it opened my eyes to the future of automation. I was able to take a six-week lab that was coordinated between teams and simplify it as an Ansible deployment. Since then, I’ve spent years learning the ins and outs of using Ansible and Ansible Automation Platform (AAP).

This book focuses on AAP and its many parts. The most popular part is the Automation controller, previously known as Tower. This book covers the different parts of AAP and how to utilize them. We’ll focus on the Automation controller, which centralizes everything needed to run an Ansible playbook, using role-based access control, logging, and other features that are useful when doing automation in an enterprise.

In addition to the Automation controller, this book covers the Automation hub, the Automation services catalog, and Red Hat Single Sign-On and how they integrate and interact with the other services.

Also in this book is a collection of best practices around AAP. We will cover a variety of ways to interact with AAP. If you’ve ever had any interest in going beyond the command line of Ansible and scaling your automation, this book is a great first step in understanding AAP on that journey.

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