Red Hat's Ansible Tower's documentation states that it can only be run on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. I can see once upon a time it could be run on other distros, such as Ubuntu. Is there a free Linux distro that Tower can still be installed upon?
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4Have you considered AWX? github.com/ansible/awx– BMitchSep 9, 2021 at 22:43
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BMitch, great suggestion and I didn't know about it. But the ask is about running Tower on a free distro– James T SnellSep 14, 2021 at 17:29
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1Commercial product requires commercial distros (that's their choice likely for support reasons). But the free upstream project runs on free distros.– BMitchSep 14, 2021 at 18:32
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BMitch, fair.. Though Tower did support CentOS, Ubuntu and others until very recently.– James T SnellSep 15, 2021 at 14:11
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The Ansible Tower Requirements still states
CentOS 7.7 or later 64-bit (x86)
however
you must have valid subscriptions attached before installing and running
An other option might be to use Ansible AWX
AWX provides a web-based user interface, REST API, and task engine built on top of Ansible. It is one of the upstream projects for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.
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Thanks, CentOS is apparently going away, so I don't really want to use that going forward. AWX has potential, but it also has a fairly dev-ish installation process, so I'm not sure about it either. I guess how "right" these suggestions are come down to the particular use case. For some these are totally enough. Feb 7, 2022 at 17:54