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Demystifying Ansible Automation Platform

By : Sean Sullivan
Book Image

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

Configuring Automation controller settings

Automation controller settings are where the access controls are stored in the controller. However, before a controller can be accessed, a subscription must be added. This section will cover how to go through registration and change settings inside of the controller. The section after that will go into detail about authentication settings.

Registering the Automation controller with a subscription manifest

When an Automation controller is first accessed, it asks the user to activate a subscription. This can be done with either a manifest file from the Red Hat website, from a Satellite installation, or using the user’s Red Hat username and password. The registration page looks like this:

Figure 4.1 – Automation controller registration

Using a username and password for this process will present the user with a selection of subscriptions to choose from. However, if a subscription is being split between...