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Chapter 5. System requirements

Use this information when planning your Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform installations and designing automation mesh topologies that fit your use case.

5.1. Prerequisites
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  • Obtain root access either through the sudo command, or through privilege escalation.

    • De-escalate privileges from root to users such as: AWX, PostgreSQL, Event-Driven Ansible, or Pulp.
  • Configured an NTP client on all nodes.

5.2. System requirements for RPM installation
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Review system requirements to ensure your environment supports RPM installation of Ansible Automation Platform. RPM-based installations of Ansible Automation Platform were deprecated in 2.5 and will be removed in version 2.7.

For system requirements for the RPM installation method of Ansible Automation Platform, see the System requirements section of RPM installation.

Note

The Ansible Automation Platform RPM installer was deprecated in 2.5 and will be removed in Ansible Automation Platform 2.7. The RPM installer will be supported for RHEL 9 during the lifecycle of Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 to support migrations to existing supported topologies. For more information on upgrade and migration paths, see the Support matrix for upgrade scenarios.

For system requirements for performing a containerized installation of Ansible Automation Platform, see the System requirements section of Containerized installation.

For system requirements for installing Ansible Automation Platform on OpenShift Container Platform, see the Tested system configurations section of Tested deployment models.

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