Setup and Configure Ansible Tower for RHEL8

This repo will configure RHEL8 with Ansible 2.9, deploy Tower 3.7, and perform post-setup configuration of orgs/teams, projects, credentials, and job templates.

Instructions:

1. Place your license file in roles/config/files (Tower 3.6 and earlier)

2. Be root or set your ansible_become in the inventory template, and run:

    ansible-playbook one-stop-shop.yml -e "sub_username=username" -e "sub_password=password"

What does this role do?

Install Tower

• set timezone to utc
• register rhel
• add tower repo
• install pre-req yum packages
• place ssh keys on servers
• download, extract, and install tower

Configure Tower

• verify tower is up
• apply license
• install system pip packages
• install tower venv pip packages
• set ipv4 tcp keep alive
• adjust open file limits for tower

Add stuff to Tower

• add users
• create organizations
• add users to teams/orgs
• create inventory
• configure tower logging destination
• create fact collection project
• create linux root credential
• create fact collection job template
• launch fact collection job
• verify job completes