Was versteht man unter Ansible Tower?

Ansible is part of Red Hat's enterprise IT systems management product group and includes Satellite infrastructure management, CloudForms cloud management and the Red Hat Insights monitoring and troubleshooting service. Ansible Engine provides enterprise-level support for the open source project. Ansible Engine is a stabilized, hardened version of the upstream automation technologies. Ansible Engine includes the central task runner and modules for core functions, networking, community and other areas. Ansible Tower provides a range of management and access control features to extend the capabilities of Ansible Engine. Ansible Tower is a supported Red Hat offering based on the upstream AWX project. The IT operations team can easily control user credentials for managed systems thanks to Role Based Access Control (RBAC). Ansible Tower also includes customizable dashboards and inventory management via a Graphic User Interface (GUI), a notification system and job scheduling. In addition to the GUI, Ansible Tower has its own CLI. Tower users can use its API to integrate Ansible into development, IT and DevOps processes and toolchains. Instance groups and isolated nodes enable precise control over implementations.