Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform controller (“Automation Controller”) is a software product provided as part of an annual Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform subscription entered into between you and Red Hat, Inc. (“Red Hat”).
Ansible is an open source software project and is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3, as detailed in the Ansible source code: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/COPYING
You must have valid subscriptions attached before installing the Ansible Automation Platform. See Attaching Subscriptions for detail.
Red Hat offers support to paid Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform customers.
If you or your company has purchased a subscription for Ansible Automation Platform, you can contact the support team at https://access.redhat.com. To better understand the levels of support which match your Ansible Automation Platform subscription, refer to Subscription Types. For details of what is covered under an Ansible Automation Platform subscription, please see the Scopes of Support at: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/ansible-tower#scope-of-coverage-4 and https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/ansible-engine.
While a license is required for automation controller to run, there is no fee for a trial license.
Trial licenses for Red Hat Ansible Automation are available at: http://ansible.com/license
Support is not included in a trial license or during an evaluation of the automation controller software.
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is provided at various levels of support and number of machines as an annual Subscription.
Manage any size environment
Enterprise 8x5 support and SLA
Maintenance and upgrades included
Review the SLA at: https://access.redhat.com/support/offerings/production/sla
Review the Red Hat Support Severity Level Definitions at: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/severity
Manage any size environment, including mission-critical environments
Premium 24x7 support and SLA
Maintenance and upgrades included
Review the SLA at: https://access.redhat.com/support/offerings/production/sla
Review the Red Hat Support Severity Level Definitions at: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/severity
All Subscription levels include regular updates and releases of automation controller, Ansible, and any other components of the Platform.
For more information, contact Ansible via the Red Hat Customer portal at https://access.redhat.com/ or at http://www.ansible.com/contact-us/.
The Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform controller license defines the number of Managed Nodes that can be managed as part of a Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform subscription. A typical license will say ‘License Count: 500’, which sets the maximum number of Managed Nodes at 500.
For more information on managed node requirements for licensing, please see https://access.redhat.com/articles/3331481.
Note
At this time, Ansible does not recycle node counts or reset automated hosts.
You must have valid subscriptions attached before installing the Ansible Automation Platform. Refer to Attaching your Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform subscription for more detail.
To view the license information for the components included within automation controller, refer to /usr/share/doc/automation-controller-<version>/README where <version> refers to the version of automation controller you have installed.
To view a specific license, refer to /usr/share/doc/automation-controller-<version>/*.txt, where * is replaced by the license file name to which you are referring.