Up until this point, we have a lot of good information about Ansible.
There is one confusion that always around and I know a lot of system administrators have this confusion
is open source Ansible versus RedHat Ansible is RedHat Ansible different from the open source Ansible?
No.
So let's take a look.
Ansible itself is a free, open source software.
It was purchased by Red Hat.
Yes, in 2015.
And it was software itself.
The tool, the package itself is free, even though it is owned by Red Hat.
So clarifying it once again, Ansible is the same software across all platforms.
The only difference is Red Hat provides additional product, which is Ansible Tower and consulting or
technical support for Ansible, which you don't get.
If you just wanted to run Ansible and you don't need any support or you need any you don't need any
Ansible Tower.
You could get support from the community, but it's not guaranteed that you're going to get the response
back in a timely fashion.
Or if you have an slay that you need to fulfill, then it's better that you go with the consulting or
technical support.
All right.
If you wanted to learn more about it, I would highly recommend you to go to dub dub dub dot red hat
dot com.
Let's take a quick look under red hat.
Hence Ansible Tower Right Head provides Ansible Tower, which is gooey based graphical user interface
based tool to manage ansible automation.
Ansible Tower is a paid product by Red Hat and it manages multiple Ansible servers for a large enterprise
environment.
So if you have production, non-product or Key Way, all those different environments and you probably
have your control node or Ansible server on all these different environments, then it's best that you
use Ansible Tower.
So Ansible Tower can manage all your nodes under one a single pane of glass.
There is another tool which provides somewhat similar functionality as Ansible Tower, and that is Ansible
AWACS.
This tool is open source and it's of course a free software.
Now when you use Ansible, you're not going to get the support from Red Hat.
So if you are in a larger, huge, big environment, in corporate environment, my recommendation is
always go with Ansible Tower.
So you could get all the support that you need from Red Hat.
But if you're still confident that you are able to manage your own environment without any support,
then be my guest and go with Ansible a.