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Red Hat
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An introduction to Ansible Tower
November 20, 2025 - It is fairly easy to install Ansible Tower. The following instructions use Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 as the base operating system. You have to use Ansible 2.8 or greater on RHEL 8 to install Tower.
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Mike Polinowski
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Installing Ansible Tower (AWX in Docker) on RHEL8 | Mike Polinowski
Versions may # be selected based on: latest, 1, 1.0, 1.0.0, 1.0.0.123 # by default the base will be used to search for ansible/awx dockerhub_base=ansible # Openshift Install # Will need to set -e openshift_password=developer -e docker_registry_password=$(oc whoami -t) # or set -e openshift_token=TOKEN # openshift_host=127.0.0.1:8443 # openshift_project=awx # openshift_user=developer # openshift_skip_tls_verify=False # openshift_pg_emptydir=True # Kubernetes Install # kubernetes_context=test-cluster # kubernetes_namespace=awx # kubernetes_web_svc_type=NodePort # Optional Kubernetes Variables #
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Next version of supported OS for Ansible Tower
Not sure about Tower but I suspect you don't need any Linux distro any more, just Kubernetes? More on reddit.com
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Ansible on RHEL8 options
That's what Python environments are for. You can run multiple version of Python on the systems. Another way might be is to set the Python executable: ansible_python_interpreter=/usr/bin/python3.11 Or go with RHEL 9 or 10. 9 has 3.9, 10 has 3.12. More on reddit.com
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Ansible Tower / AWX - How to Install Ansible AWX without Docker on CentOS 7 / RHEL 7 - YallaLabs
16K subscribers in the CentOS community. CentOS (Community Enterprise Operating System) was a Linux distribution that attempted to provide a free… More on reddit.com
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Ansible Tower vs. AWX vs. Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
AWX is the free version, so you get what you pay for. Ansible Tower from Red Hat is retired. It is now called Ansible Automation Platform. You get an Ansible Controller, which is basically what Tower was, and a lot of other things in the platform, like Automation Hub, Event Driven Ansible. If you use a lot of Ansible you get a lot of bang for your buck. I'd check RH's youtube channel for lots of demos and examples More on reddit.com
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Medium
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Installing Ansible Tower on RHEL8 using AWS (EC2) | by Florian Moss | Medium
October 1, 2020 - > sudo dnf install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm ... The following will set a password for the admin user and the database and then run the installer.
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How To Install and Configure Ansible Tower on CentOS 8 / RHEL 8
July 15, 2020 - We need the EPEL repository for this installation. Update your CentOS 7 system and add EPEL repository. sudo yum -y update sudo yum -y install epel-release For CentOS / RHEL 8, use:
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Red Hat
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Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Installation Guide | Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform | 2.0-ea | Red Hat Documentation
The automation controller server is accessible from port 80 (https://<TOWER_SERVER_NAME>/) but will redirect to port 443 so 443 needs to be available also. ... If the installation fails and you are a customer who has purchased a valid license for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, please contact Ansible via the Red Hat Customer portal at https://access.redhat.com/.
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PCC-IT International
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Tower Quick Installation Guide - PCC-IT International
December 3, 2020 - Note On Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 or 8, Ansible Tower 3.8.0 requires the Python 3 Software Collection. If you are installing Tower offline, you need either CentOS-SCL or RH-SCL repositories enabled through a local mirror: Red Hat Subscription Manager: rhel-server-rhscl-7-rpms.
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Medium
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Install and Configure Ansible Tower on CentOS 7 / RHEL 7/8 | by ComputingPost | Medium
October 24, 2022 - Below are the steps you’ll use to install Ansible Tower on a CentOS 7 server. We need the EPEL repository for this installation. Update your CentOS 7 system and add EPEL repository. sudo yum -y update sudo yum -y install epel-release · For CentOS / RHEL 8, use: How to enable EPEL Repository on CentOS / RHEL 8 Ansible Tower uses Ansible playbook to deploy itself so we also need Ansible installed.
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Ansible Junky
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Create completely offline Ansible Tower bundle installation - Ansible Junky
March 25, 2021 - # Initialize vagrant box vagrant init generic/rhel8 # Ensure you have the latest box version vagrant box upgrade # Start the machine vagrant up # Login to the machine vagrant ssh # Escalate to root access sudo su - # Download latest version of Ansible Tower bundle package wget https://releases.ansible.com/ansible-tower/setup-bundle/ansible-tower-setup-bundle-latest.tar.gz · As stated, the bundled package still needs access to OS specific repositories. The Vagrant box includes them as a result of registering subscription-manager. These are the required repositories: > yum repolist Updating Subscription Management repositories. repo id repo name rhel-8-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 for x86_64 - AppStream (RPMs) rhel-8-for-x86_64-baseos-rpms Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 for x86_64 - BaseOS (RPMs)
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Ansible Tower Install and Setup Quick Guide -
This makes it nearly impossible (and not recommended for production) to install Ansible Tower or any other modern enterprise software directly on CentOS 8, because: Official YUM repositories are no longer available.
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Medium
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Ansible Tower Installation Step by Step | by Rajesh | Medium
August 4, 2020 - Support OS (64-bit): RHEL6/7/8 (Preferred OS), CentOS 6/7/8 · Ansible Installed · 2 GB RAM · Root access and internet · Ansible Tower steps for instillation on RHEL server · # Configure EPEL repository yum install -y epel-release · # OS package yum install wget curl tree vim ansible -y ·
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Step by Step guide to install Ansible Tower | by Ragu Thangavel | Medium
February 23, 2022 - Step by Step guide to install Ansible Tower Ansible Tower Single Machine integrated installation Prerequisites Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 or later 64-bit (x86) CentOS 7.7 or later 64-bit (x86) AWS …
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Ansible Tower
docs.ansible.com › ansible-tower › latest › html › quickinstall › prepare.html
Ansible Documentation
Tower Installation and Reference Guide · Tower User Guide · Tower Administration Guide · Tower API Guide · Tower CLI Guide · Previous Versions · 日本語ドキュメント -- Japanese Translations · Ansible Tower 中文文档 - Simplified Chinese Translations" Tower 3.8.0 ·
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Installing Ansible Tower (AWX). Jeganathan Swaminathan… | by Jeganathan Swaminathan ( jegan@tektutor.org ) | Medium
February 24, 2023 - Red Hat Ansible Tower (Enterprise Edition) built on top of AWX, backed by Red Hat support. In this blog, let’s see how to install AWX on your laptop/desktop. I did my setup on Fedora Workstation 37, however the step by step procedure demonstrated in this blog should work on CentOS/Rocky/RHEL if you use the respective package manager.
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Ansible Tower
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Ansible Automation Platform Quick Installation Guide v3.8.6
Tower Installation and Reference Guide · Tower User Guide · Tower Administration Guide · Tower API Guide · Tower CLI Guide · Previous Versions · 日本語ドキュメント -- Japanese Translations · Ansible Tower 中文文档 - Simplified Chinese Translations" Tower 3.8.0 ·
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Reddit
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r/ansible on Reddit: Next version of supported OS for Ansible Tower
March 10, 2022 -

All,

I have just created a new EC2 instance of CentOS Stream v9 and about to install v3.8.5 of Ansible Tower. Just reading through the documentation and came across this note in their installation guide:

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-tower/latest/html/installandreference/requirements_refguide.html

" next major release of Ansible Tower will not support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 or CentOS (any version) as an installation platform."

So am I wasting my time with CentOS? Red Hat have already dropped support for Ubuntu, so without CentOS and RHEL, what Linux distro should I be using?

Thanks

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Topvcf
topvcf.com › 2025 › 06 › 26 › install-rhel-8-install-ansible-initial-config-and-first-playbook
Install rhel 8, install ansible, initial config and first playbook – TOP VCF technology
June 26, 2025 - install ansible ---------------------------- sudo su - cat /etc/redhat-release yum repolist all | grep ansible yum install yum-utils yum-config-manager --enable ansible-2.9-for-rhel-8-x86_64-rpms yum repolist enabled yum install -y ansible ansible --version setup user on control node and all ...
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Testmuai
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Ansible Tower: A Complete Guide for Modern IT Automation
January 27, 2026 - To adopt it successfully, you can follow the steps below: ... Provision a fresh 64-bit RHEL 8 / CentOS 7.7 or later server. Allocate 2 vCPUs, at least 4 GB RAM, and 20 GB disk (with at least 10 GB dedicated to /var/, ideally 750+ IOPS).
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YallaLabs
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How To Install Ansible Tower on CentOS / RHEL - YallaLabs
May 30, 2020 - In this article we will install and configure Ansible Tower on CentOS / RHEL 7. Ansible Tower(AWX) is a web-based solution helps you to manage your entire infrastructure.