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Understanding Ansible Tower, Automation Platform, and AWX

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Understanding Ansible Tower, Automation Platform, and AWX

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In this video, I will explain Ansible Tower AWX and Ansible Automation Platform. So what is Ansible Tower? Well, Ansible Tower is a Red Hat-based platform that manages Ansible from a web interface. The purpose is to make it easier to work with Ansible and to add some features as well. And that is because Ansible Tower is offering features that you won't find in Ansible Engine, which is a command line version of Ansible. These include role-based access control, for instance. In role-based access control, you can use users as well as teams and to provide permissions to the users and teams to perform specific tasks. You can do caching of passwords to make it easier to work with Ansible in a secure way. And there's Workflow Designer, which is the option to create a conditional workflow between different tasks. That is like execute task A. If task A succeeds, you execute task B. If it doesn't, you execute task C. You can do pretty complex things with the Workflow Designer. There's also…

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