Enterprise Platform (AAP & AWX)¶

Everything before this section is about ansible-core — the open-source engine and CLI. This section is about what gets built on top of it once an organization needs shared scheduling, role-based access control, audit history, and vendor support: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) and its open-source upstream, AWX.

You don't need any of this to write and run great playbooks — plenty of teams never touch it. It becomes relevant the moment "a few engineers running playbooks from their laptops" needs to become "automation a whole organization can safely share."

Read in this order¶

1. ansible-core vs. ansible vs. AAP — four names, precisely disambiguated
2. Automation Controller and Automation Mesh — the web UI/API/RBAC layer, and distributed execution
3. Execution Environments and Automation Hub — reproducible run environments and certified content
4. Licensing and Adoption — AWX vs. a paid AAP subscription, and how to decide

Next¶

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