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Demystifying Ansible Automation Platform

You're reading from   Demystifying Ansible Automation Platform A definitive way to manage Ansible Automation Platform and Ansible Tower

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803244884
Length 314 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Sean Sullivan Sean Sullivan
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Getting Ansible Automation Platform Up and Running
2. Chapter 1: Introduction to Ansible Automation Platform FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Installing Ansible Automation Platform 4. Chapter 3: Installing Ansible Automation Platform on OpenShift 5. Chapter 4: Configuring Settings and Authentication 6. Part 2: Configuring AAP
7. Chapter 5: Configuring the Basics after Installation 8. Chapter 6: Configuring Role-Based Access Control 9. Chapter 7: Creating Inventory, and Other Inventory Pieces 10. Chapter 8: Creating Execution Environments 11. Chapter 9: Automation Hub Management 12. Chapter 10: Creating Job Templates and Workflows 13. Part 3: Extending Ansible Tower
14. Chapter 11: Creating Advanced Workflows and Jobs 15. Chapter 12: Using CI/CD to Interact with Automation Controller 16. Chapter 13: Integration with Other Services 17. Chapter 14: Automating at Scale with Automation Mesh 18. Chapter 15: Using Automation Services Catalog 19. Index 20. Other Books You May Enjoy

Installing Galaxy NG on a machine

Galaxy NG is the upstream version of Automation hub. Its main purpose is to be an on-premises Ansible Galaxy (https://galaxy.ansible.com/) and to be a registry for container images. The GUI is kept in a separate repository as it is not required. It is based on pulp for its services. The latest instructions for installation can be found here: https://github.com/ansible/galaxy_ng/wiki/Development-Setup. The instructions to set up the development environment are as follows:

Clone the repository:

  1. Run the following commands to clone the galaxy_ng repository and then change to the newly created directory:
    $ git clone https://github.com/ansible/galaxy_ng.git
    $ cd galaxy_ng
  2. Use autocomplete on git checkout to find the highest release number:
    $ git checkout (TAB)

The following is an example:

$ git checkout v4.2.0
  1. Repeat this for the Galaxy NG UI:
    $ git clone https://github.com/ansible/ansible-hub-ui.git
    $ cd ansible-hub-ui
    $ git...
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