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What is Ansible AWX

AWX is a modern web UI and API to manage your organization's Ansible Playbook, Inventories, Vault, and Credentials. It is the Open Source upstream project of the Ansible Automation Controller (formerly Ansible Tower).

Luca Berton
3 min readSep 20, 2022

What is Ansible AWX?

AWX is the Open Source upstream project of the Ansible Automation Controller, part of the Ansible Automation Platform (formerly Ansible Tower).

It’s great to look at AWX to discover new features of the Automation Controller, but it has a different release cycle and support.

I’m Luca Berton and welcome to today’s episode of Ansible Pilot.

Ansible AWX vs. Automation Controller

  • Apache License 2.0
  • Ansible Automation Platform is fully supported by Red Hat, while AWX is supported by the community
  • new builds approximately every two weeks

Ansible AWX is the upstream project of Ansible Automation Controller (formerly Ansible Tower), providing a modern web-UI and API interface to manage Ansible Playbooks…

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Luca Berton
Luca Berton

Written by Luca Berton

I help creative Automation DevOps, Cloud Engineer, System Administrator, and IT Professional to succeed with Ansible Technology to automate more things everyday

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