Ansible Tower Installation and Reference Guide¶
Thank you for your interest in Ansible Tower by Red Hat, the open source IT orchestration engine. Whether sharing operations tasks with your team or integrating with Ansible through the Tower REST API, Tower provides many powerful tools to make your automation life easier.
The Ansible Tower Installation and Reference Guide helps you to understand the installation requirements and processes behind installing Ansible Tower. This document has been updated to include information for the latest release of Ansible Tower 2.4.4.
Ansible Tower Version 2.4.4; February 22, 2016; https://access.redhat.com/
- Ansible Tower Installation and Reference Guide
- 1. Tower Licensing, Updates, and Support
- 2. Release Notes
- 3. Known Issues
- 3.1. Installation failure related to MongoDB
- 3.2. Upgrading to Ansible Tower 2.4.4
- 3.3. Running in FIPS mode
- 3.4. Errors when editing objects
- 3.5. Host comparisons against a single host
- 3.6. Host comparisons against two hosts
- 3.7. Live events status indicators
- 3.8. Use of Custom Certificates with Live Events
- 3.9. sudo/su not working as expected for local playbooks or playbooks with local_actions
- 3.10. Installation program does not enable su command support
- 3.11. Problems when using SSH customization
- 3.12. Ubuntu unsupported for bundled installations
- 3.13. YAML parser errors when installing Tower without python-yaml installed
- 3.14. Session Limits of 1 minute or less will break your instance of Tower
- 3.15. Ansible 2.0 strategies
- 3.16. Reactivating OAuth authentication accounts which have been deleted
- 4. General Installation Notes
- 5. Supported Platforms and Requirements
- 6. Platform-Specific Notes
- 7. Requirements
- 8. Prerequisites
- 9. Tower Installation Scenarios
- 10. Get the Tower Installation Program
- 11. The Tower Installation Wizard
- 12. Upgrading an Existing Tower Installation
- 13. Supported Locales
- 14. Glossary
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