How to install ansible and ansible tower

## Make sure the machine meets the ansible tower requirements RHEL 64bit RAM > 4GB HDD > 20GB ## download the ansible installer bundle cd /var/tmp wget --no-check-certificate https://releases.ansible.com/ansible-tower/setup/ansible-tower-setup-latest.tar.gz ## extract ## depending on the version number, it will create a sub directory with the version number e.g. ## ansible-tower-setup-3.8.4-1tar cvfz ansible-tower-setup-latest.tar.gz## edit the inventory file to insert passwords ## eg. if the extracted installer is in ansible-tower-setup-3.8.4-1 cd ansible-tower-setup-3.8.4-1 vi inventory ## modify accordingly [tower] localhost ansible_connection=local [automationhub] [database] [all:vars] admin_password='Your_Admin_Password_Here' pg_host='' pg_port='' pg_database='awx' pg_username='awx' pg_password='Your_DB_Password_Here' pg_sslmode='prefer' # set to 'verify-full' for client-side enforced SSL ## if you want to tweak the installation requirements e.g. minimum RAM size, you can edit the variables in [INSTALLDIR]/roles/preflight/defaults/main.yml ## run the installer and wait till completed. ./setup.sh ## Check the ansible tower service and enable and start if necessary ## systemctl enable ansible-tower systemctl start ansible-tower [root@mgmt7 ~]# systemctl status ansible-tower ● ansible-tower.service - Ansible Tower service Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/ansible-tower.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled) Active: active (exited) since Tue 2022-04-26 09:59:05 +08; 36min ago Process: 1478 ExecStart=/bin/true (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Main PID: 1478 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Tasks: 0 Memory: 0B CGroup: /system.slice/ansible-tower.service Apr 26 09:59:05 mgmt7 systemd[1]: Starting Ansible Tower service... Apr 26 09:59:05 mgmt7 systemd[1]: Started Ansible Tower service.