Ansible Tower was Red Hat’s web-based UI and REST API for running Ansible with access control, scheduling and logging. With Ansible Automation Platform 2, Tower was renamed automation controller and became one component of AAP. It’s no longer sold as a separate product.
AWX is the free, open source upstream project behind Ansible Tower and automation controller. It provides a similar web UI and API, but it’s community-supported, releases frequently and isn’t recommended by Red Hat for production.
Ansible vs Ansible Tower: Ansible is the command-line automation engine. Tower, and now automation controller, adds a central interface, credentials, RBAC and job history for teams.
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