# 5. Ansible Tower

* It is a product created by Red Hat
* It is a framework for ansible
* It provides a GUI. Thus, reducing dependency for command prompt window
* Allows to control access and allow sharing of SSH credentials without someone being able to transfer those credentials
* Provides command line tools for easy integration with Jenkins and also provides great support for autoscaling topologies
* Inventory can be graphically managed or synced with a variety of cloud sources

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### Tower Parameters

#### Capabilities

1. Control
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2. Knowledge
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3. Delegation
   \*

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4. Support
   \*

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5. Maintainence
   * Offers full access to bug fix and requirement
6. Documented CLI
   * Offeres integration of ansible tower into existing toolset

#### Tower Editions

1. Self Support Edition
2. Standard Edition
3. Premium Edition

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### Tower Features

1. Ansible dashboard
2. Real-Time job status updates
3. Multi-Playbook workflows
4. Who ran what job when (audit trail)
5. Scale capacity with clusters
6. Integrated notifications
7. Scheduled ansible jobs
8. Manage and track entire inventory
9. Self service
10. Rest API & Tower CLI tool
11. Remote command execution

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