Author Archives: Sam Wills
Author Archives: Sam Wills
As you may already know, Ansible Tower 2.3.0's release offers a bundled installer for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS systems. This all-in-one installer contains everything you need to get Tower started in one bundle, including the bootstrapping of Ansible for you, if it is not already installed. If Ansible is already installed, ensure that it is the latest stable version before proceeding with your Tower installation.
In addition to other bug fixes and performance improvements, the documentation for the Tower 2.3.0 release also included a few updates.
The biggest update for the Tower Documentation Set hits the Tower API Guide.
The REST API in Tower is browsable and simple to use, but you must be logged into your Tower instance to view the endpoints. Now, for the very first time, the Tower API endpoints have been included for easy review.
For example, the Ping Endpoint, which is fairly simple as an example, includes the following information:
Another feature we are trying out for the Tower 2.3.0 Documentation Set is a new custom search. At the bottom right of your browser screen, a new "search this site" button appears that scrolls the Continue reading
While prior versions of the Ansible Tower documentation focused on a single PDF, we've gone in a different direction for this release. You will still have all of the great content available from earlier releases, but in a documentation set comprised of guides focused on getting you going, installation and reference, administration, and more. I have to say that all of the outstanding documentation that was created for prior versions gave me a strong foundation to work with for this release and I'm grateful for the hard work put in before I joined the Ansible team.
With Ansible Tower 2.2, we are ensuring that access to HTML as well as PDF versions of the Tower documents are easily available from the docs website. Our Ansible Tower HTML documents also look and feel more similar to the Ansible documentation available online that you've come to know and love. And, they've been indexed to help you find the information you need as quickly as possible.
First, we're introducing Ansible Tower to new users with our Quick Installation and Quick Setup Guides. These manuals are geared toward getting Ansible Tower installed and setup to the point of running a simple playbook. They Continue reading