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Managing users and teams

Managing users and teams - Ansible Tutorial

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Managing users and teams

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So, one of the nice things in Ansible Tower is that you can set it up for role-based access control. And in order to use role-based access control, you use users and teams. So, tower users are users that are used by people that need to access the tower interface. So typically the tower user is your IT staff and you want to grant specific roles within tower possibilities to the IT staff. And tower users are used with role-based access control to give these users access to specific roles. So you don't just need a user, you also need to assign this user to a specific role. And roles can be assigned to either individual users or teams. Depending on the role-based access control settings that are granted to an Ansible Tower user, the user will be able to view or use or change or remove Ansible objects. There's also organizations. Now, what is an organization? An organization is the highest level of role-based access control, basically. It's a collection of teams, projects, and inventories.…

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