Red Hat Communities of Practice Ansible Automation Platform Utilities Collection
This ansible collection includes a number of roles which can be useful for installing Ansible Automation Platform.
Using this collection, you'll be able to automate following tasks:
- RHEL based installs
- prepare and install Automation controller and Private automation hub on RHEL
- configure the OS to support Kerberos (if you plan to manage Windows hosts using AD credentials)
- backup and restore Automation controller and Private automation hub
- install a minimal Git repo over SSH, for demonstration and learning purposes
- OpenShift based installs
- prepare and install Automation controller and Private automation hub on OpenShift
Getting Help
We are on the Ansible Forums and Matrix, if you want to discuss something, ask for help, or participate in the community, please use the #infra-config-as-code tag on the forum, or post to the chat in Matrix.
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Requirements
The following collections are required to use this collection if you are using the Openshift specific roles.
| Name | Minimum Version |
|---|
| ansible.posix | 1.0.0 |
| kubernetes.core | 2.2.0 |
| redhat.openshift | 4.0.2 |
⚠️ IMPORTANT
To install this collection ensure that access to Automation Hub is configured or required collections are already installed.
The aap_install_ocp role requires the kubernetes (version 12.0.0 or later) Python module to be installed.
Links to Ansible Automation Platform Collections
Links to other Validated Configuration Collections for Ansible Automation Platform
Included content
Click the Content button to see the list of content included in this collection.
Installing this collection
You can install the redhat_cop aap_utilities collection with the Ansible Galaxy CLI:
ansible-galaxy collection install infra.aap_utilities
You can also include it in a requirements.yml file and install it with ansible-galaxy collection install -r requirements.yml, using the format:
---
collections:
- name: infra.aap_utilities
# If you need a specific version of the collection, you can specify like this:
# version: ...
Using this collection
See Also
Release and Upgrade Notes
For details on changes between versions, please see
the changelog.
Many roles and variables have been renamed to reflect the product renaming from Tower to controller/AAP.
Verify carefully your inventory variables and playbooks.
The previous OCP installation role has been suppressed due to the introduction of an operator.
In addition to the current OCP installation role, further (community) automation for AAP on OCP is available from the GitOps catalogue.
Releasing, Versioning and Deprecation
This collection follows Semantic Versioning. More details on versioning can be found in the Ansible docs.
We plan to regularly release new minor or bugfix versions once new features or bugfixes have been implemented.
Releasing the current major version happens from the devel branch.
Roadmap
Contributing to this collection
We welcome community contributions to this collection. If you find problems, please open an issue or create a PR against the AAP Utilities collection repository.
More information about contributing can be found in our Contribution Guidelines.
Licensing
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later.
See LICENSE to see the full text.
Support
This collection is Ansible Validated Content. It is reviewed and tested by Red Hat but is not supported under a Red Hat SLA. For reporting issues and requesting improvements, file an issue at the AAP Utilities repository. Community help is also available on the Ansible Forum.
