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Demystifying Ansible Automation Platform

By : Sean Sullivan
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Demystifying Ansible Automation Platform

By: Sean Sullivan

Overview of this book

While you can use any automation software to simplify task automation, scaling automation to suit your growing business needs becomes difficult using only a command-line tool. Ansible Automation Platform standardizes how automation is deployed, initiated, delegated, and audited, and this comprehensive guide shows you how you can simplify and scale its management. The book starts by taking you through the ways to get Ansible Automation Platform installed, their pros and cons, and the initial configuration. You’ll learn about each object in the platform, how it interacts with other objects, as well as best practices for defining and managing objects to save time. You’ll see how to maintain the created pieces with infrastructure as code. As you advance, you’ll monitor workflows with CI/CD playbooks and understand how Ansible Automation Platform integrates with many other services such as GitLab and GitHub. By the end of this book, you’ll have worked through real-world examples to make the most of the platform while learning how to manipulate, manage, and deploy any playbook to Ansible Automation Platform.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
1
Part 1: Getting Ansible Automation Platform Up and Running
6
Part 2: Configuring AAP
13
Part 3: Extending Ansible Tower

Automation Analytics for Red Hat AAP

Automation Analytics is a tool for exploring the performance and return on investment of either single or multiple Automation controllers. There are also reports, savings calculators, job explorers, and notifications of cluster status. These can be viewed by going to https://console.redhat.com/ansible. This section will go through the basic configuration for the Automation controller so that you can send reports to Red Hat, as well as some of the features it provides. The first step is configuring the Automation Analytics reporting.

Automation Analytics configuration

To configure Automation Analytics in the GUI, follow these steps:

  1. From the Automation controller, navigate to Settings | Miscellaneous System settings. Then, click Edit.

Toggle Gather data for Automation Analytics on and fill in the fields for Red Hat customer username and Red Hat customer password:

Figure 13.6 – Red Hat Insights settings...