Ansible Tower: Open source

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Ansible is an open-source tool that is used for IT tasks like provisioning infrastructure, application deployment, configuration management, automating daily tasks, improving security and compliance, intra-service orchestration, and sharing automation across the entire organization. Ansible Tower provides a web-based interface that makes Ansible easier to use.

Following can benefit from our instance:

• Team of developers
• DevOps Engineers
• IT Engineers
• System administrators

• Web based user interface dashboard
• Role-based access control
• External logging integrations
• Real-time job status updates
• Job scheduling
• Multi-playbook workflows
• RESTful API

• Recommended memory: 8GB RAM
• Recommended vCPU:4 vCPUs
• Operating System:Ubuntu 20.04

Ansible tower is supported by the following operating systems

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 or later 64-bit (x86)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 or later 64-bit (x86)
• CentOS 7.7 or later 64-bit (x86)

Following notification sources are supported in Ansible Tower

• Email
• Grafana
• IRC
• Mattermost
• PagerDuty
• Rocket.Chat
• Slack
• Twilio
• Webhook (post to an arbitrary webhook, for integration into other tools)

Ansible Tower brings the flexibility of the command line to Tower, a user can now prompt for any of the following:

• Inventory
• Credentials
• Job tags
• Limits

Ansible Tower supports the following authentications

• LDAP
• SAML
• token-based authentication

Tower is compatible with the major cloud environments:

• Amazon EC2
• Rackspace
• Azure

The default port that Ansible tower listens to is 80. You can access the web interface at http://yourip using the credentials

• username:admin
• password:password