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Installing Ansible Tower

Installing Ansible Tower - Ansible Tutorial

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Installing Ansible Tower

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In this video, I will show you how to install Ansible Tower. So what are the installation requirements? Well, first you need a free evaluation license. The procedure itself consists of downloading the tarball, then you request the evaluation license and then you need to set up the Ansible Tower machine. In this Ansible Tower machine, I recommend you use a minimum of 8 GB of RAM, 4 vCPUs and 40 GB of disk space. Also you need to consider the supported platform. Ansible Tower is only supported on Red Hat Enterprise Linux or on CentOS Stream. So if you want to install Tower, you can't do it without any tweaking on Rocky, for instance. I would just advise you do it on top of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Oh, and how about AWX? Well, AWX is the open source upstream, but the installation procedure is complicated. The reason is that AWX is container-based, and you need a container orchestration platform in order to run it. As that will significantly make it more complex to demonstrate AWX, in…

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