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Understanding Ansible Tower main components

Understanding Ansible Tower main components - Ansible Tutorial

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Understanding Ansible Tower main components

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So now that Ansible Tower is up and running, it's time to explore its possibilities. And let's talk about the main components that you will be working with. So to reach out to managed machines with Tower, things are not really different from managing machines with Ansible Engine from the command line. That means that you need to identify the managed machines. and on the tower host that will start by setting up ETC host name resolving or DNS, because otherwise you can't find the machines. Next, on the managed machines themselves, you need to make sure that SSHD is running and it accepts incoming connections. So also take care of your firewall. And you need a user account with sudo privileges, like the way we did it while setting up Ansible engine. And also you need to set up password and optionally SSH keys. Once you've done it, you will be able to manage Ansible Tower. That's a quick overview of the different components involved before I will show you. It starts with the organization.…

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