Ansible Tower User 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 User Guide discusses all of the functionality available in Ansible Tower and assumes moderate familiarity with Ansible, including concepts such as Playbooks, Variables, and Tags. For more information on these and other Ansible concepts, please see the Ansible documentation at http://docs.ansible.com/. 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 User Guide
- 1. Overview
- 1.1. Real-time Playbook Output and Exploration
- 1.2. “Push Button” Automation
- 1.3. Role Based Access Control and Auditing
- 1.4. Cloud & Autoscaling Flexibility
- 1.5. The Ideal RESTful API
- 1.6. Backup and Restore
- 1.7. Ansible Galaxy Integration
- 1.8. Inventory Support for OpenStack
- 1.9. Remote Command Execution
- 1.10. System Tracking
- 2. Tower Licensing, Updates, and Support
- 3. Logging In
- 4. Exploring the Dashboard and Tower Interface
- 5. Organizations
- 6. Users
- 7. Teams
- 8. Credentials
- 9. Projects
- 10. Inventories
- 11. Job Templates
- 12. Jobs
- 13. Best Practices
- 14. Security
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