We are going to start by looking at Ansible Tower. As you may recall, this is commercial software, so we will need a license; luckily, Red Hat provides a trial license. You can request it by clicking on the Try Tower Free button at https://www.ansible.com/.
Please note, you must use a business address, Ansible will not accept requests which originate from an email address such as me.com, icloud.com, gmail.com, and hotmain.com and so on.
After a while, you will receive an email that looks like the following:
Click on the DOWNLOAD TOWER NOW (.TAR) button; this will open your browser and download a TAR file containing the playbooks we will be running to deploy Ansible Tower. Next up, we need a server to host our Ansible Tower installation. Let's use the Vagrantfile we have used in other chapters:
# -*- mode: ruby -*-
# vi: set ft=ruby :
API_VERSION = "2"...