It's a GUI based tool which lets you create automation workflow to carry out tasks like cloud provisioning, configuration management, and application deployment. It provides features like job scheduling, RBAC and logging. It also provides integration with LDAP.

1. Ansible Tower
( Ansible Automation
Platform )
Shubham Kumar

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3. Agenda
1 Ansible Automation Platform ( AAP ) – What it
is?
2 Key Features
3 Benefits
4 Architecture
5 Components
6 Integrations
7 Use Cases
8 Alternatives
9 Demo
10 Conclusion

4. Ansible Automation Platform – What it is?
 A web-based automation platform
 Provides a centralized interface for managing Ansible automation
 Developed by Red Hat

5. Key Features
 Job Scheduling
 Workflow Capability
 RBAC ( Role Based Access Control )
 Job history report
 Restful API support for creating out Ansible Tower objects ( e.g Job Template , Credentials )
 Scalability and High Availability
 Highly Informative Dashboard and an extensive level of log visualization option
 Survey to pass on the user choices into the automation playbook.

6. Benefits
 Easy to manage Inventories, credentials through GUI instead of doing it through engine.
 Capability to create projects and fetch the code from different source.
 Ability to schedule jobs at a particular day, time or month.
 Better administrative control
 Dynamic Inventory capability
 Restful API to manage platform objects ( e.g trigger JT, Create/Delete/Update an object )

7. Architecture

8. Components
 Ansible Engine
 Tower Web Interface
 Tower REST API
 PostgreSQL Database
 Message Broker (RabbitMQ)

9. Integrations

10. Use Cases
 To perform Day1 operations e.g spinning up multiple instance with a certain set of tools installed
based on the users choice over an on-prem or cloud provider.
 Managing those instances at regular intervals ( like patching , taking backup )
 Using Workflows to manage the entire lifecycle of an instance from provisioning to running tests
required and later scrapping the same.
 Basically we can handle the entire provisioning and de-provisioning workflow through the platform
 Restful API gives capability to integrate it with ServiceNow Workflow that can be associated to a
catalog which will internally trigger a Job templates or workflow sitting on the Ansible Tower
Platform, thus removing the dependency for the IT or someone who is not familiar with the Ansible
tower platform to go and trigger the same from AT.

11. Alternatives
 SaltStack Enterprise
 Puppet

12. Demo

13. Conclusion
 streamlines IT operations.
 Offers centralized control, role-based access, and job scheduling.
 Enables automation of various IT tasks.
 Enhances security, compliance, and scalability.
 powerful tool for DevOps and IT teams.

14. Thank you