Ansible offers a great deal of power with just a small amount of learning, yet when deployed at a large scale in an enterprise, it can become more difficult to keep track of everything, especially which users have the latest versions of playbook code and who ran what playbook when. AWX supplements Ansible in the enterprise by bringing with it key benefits such as role-based access control, auditability, integrated source control management of playbook code, secure credential management, and job scheduling. It achieves this while providing an easy to use point and click interface, which further lowers the barrier to entry for all staff responsible for the Linux environment.
In this chapter, you learned why AWX is important to an Enterprise Linux environment and how to leverage a number of its key features. You then carried out a hands-on installation of a single AWX node...