Ansible Tower
Ansible Tower is an enterprise tool that helps organizations automate and manage their IT tasks more efficiently. It builds on Ansible, an open-source automation engine, by adding a user-friendly interface, central control, basic scheduling and real-time monitoring. With Ansible Tower, teams can streamline repetitive IT processes, manage systems across different environments, and ensure consistent task execution, all while providing better visibility, security, and control.
Benefits and Use Cases
- Schedule and execute Ansible job templates and workflow templates to streamline complex workflows and reduce manual errors.
- Monitor execution status in real time within the Automic interface.
- Capture detailed execution logs for auditing and compliance.
Example Use Case: Application Deployment and Maintenance
Fully automate the deployment of a new application version, apply critical server patches, and validate the system across multiple environments, all orchestrated by Automic.
Automic Features
- Run Ansible Tower Jobs and Workflow Templates
- Monitor Ansible Tower Jobs and Workflow Templates to completion
- View execution log for problem diagnosis
- Alert on failure of Ansible Tower processes
- Coordinate Ansible Tower processing with other Automic jobs
- Provide advanced scheduling rules for Ansible Tower processing
- Centralize and standardize monitoring, alerting and problem resolution