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Setting up Ansible Tower to manage assets

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Setting up Ansible Tower to manage assets

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In this video, we are going to use Ansible Tower to configure some managed servers. So let's have a quick look at the tower workflow. That is not a workflow resource, by the way, but it's the order of events that you need to do in order to work with towers successfully. First, you need to define an organization. Then you need to create an inventory. Optionally, you might want to work with users and teams as well. But we will cover that in a later lesson. For now, we keep it simple and we do everything with the admin user. So create an inventory is the next step. Then you need to configure credentials. You need to set up a project. In the project, you are going to make a connection to the Git repository. Next, you use a job template and then you are going to run the job. Sounds easy. Well, there's a couple of things you need to pay attention to. Let me show you in the next demo. So, you might be surprised seeing the control host again, but there's a reason for it. And the reason is…

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