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Practical Ansible 2

You're reading from   Practical Ansible 2 Automate infrastructure, manage configuration, and deploy applications with Ansible 2.9

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789807462
Length 410 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Fabio Alessandro Locati Fabio Alessandro Locati
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James Freeman James Freeman
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Oh Se Young Oh Se Young
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Learning the Fundamentals of Ansible
2. Getting Started with Ansible FREE CHAPTER 3. Understanding the Fundamentals of Ansible 4. Defining Your Inventory 5. Playbooks and Roles 6. Section 2: Expanding the Capabilities of Ansible
7. Consuming and Creating Modules 8. Consuming and Creating Plugins 9. Coding Best Practices 10. Advanced Ansible Topics 11. Section 3: Using Ansible in an Enterprise
12. Network Automation with Ansible 13. Container and Cloud Management 14. Troubleshooting and Testing Strategies 15. Getting Started with Ansible Tower 16. Assessments 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Controlling access to AWX

In my opinion, one of the biggest advantages of AWX compared to Ansible is the fact that AWX allows multiple users to connect and control/perform actions. This allows a company to have a single AWX installation for different teams, a whole organization, or even multiple organizations.

A Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) system is in place to manage the users' permissions.

Both AWX and Ansible Tower can link to central directories, such as Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) and Azure Active Directory—however, we can also create user accounts locally on the AWX server itself. Let's start by creating our first user account locally!

Creating a user

One of the big advantages of...

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