Going beyond the basics

We have now covered the basics necessary to run your first playbook from AWX – the basics required for most Ansible automation within this environment. Of course, we can't possibly cover all the advanced features AWX has to offer in a single chapter. In this section, we will therefore highlight a few of the more advanced facets to explore if you wish to learn more about AWX.

Role-based access control (RBAC)

So far, we have only looked at using AWX from the perspective of the built-in admin user. Of course, one of AWX's enterprise-level features is RBAC. This is achieved by the use of users and teams. A team is basically a group of users, and users can be a member of one or more teams.

Both users and teams can be created manually in the AWX user interface, or through integration with an external directory service, such as LDAP or Active Directory. In the case of directory...