Chapter 1. Tested deployment model types
Red Hat tests Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 with a defined set of topologies to give you opinionated deployment options. Deploy all components of Ansible Automation Platform so that all features and capabilities are available for use without the need to take further action.
Red Hat tests the installation of Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 using a defined set of infrastructure topologies or reference architectures. Enterprise organizations can use one of the enterprise topologies for production deployments. This ensures the highest level of uptime, performance, and continued scalability. Organizations or deployments that are resource constrained can use a growth topology.
You can install Ansible Automation Platform on different infrastructure topologies and environment configurations. However, Red Hat does not fully test topologies outside of published reference architectures. Red Hat recommends using a tested topology for all new deployments and provides commercially reasonable support for deployments that meet minimum requirements.
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Ansible Automation Platform offers many installation and deployment options based on your infrastructure and organizational needs. Each installation type reference includes supported infrastructure types and links to tested topologies.
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.
| Mode | Infrastructure | Description | Tested topologies |
|---|---|---|---|
| RPM | Virtual machines and bare metal | The RPM installer deploys Ansible Automation Platform on Red Hat Enterprise Linux by using RPMs to install the platform on host machines. Customers manage the product and infrastructure lifecycle. | |
| Containers | Virtual machines and bare metal | The containerized installer deploys Ansible Automation Platform on Red Hat Enterprise Linux by using Podman which runs the platform in containers on host machines. Customers manage the product and infrastructure lifecycle. | |
| Operator | Red Hat OpenShift | The Operator uses Red Hat OpenShift Operators to deploy Ansible Automation Platform within Red Hat OpenShift. Customers manage the product and infrastructure lifecycle. |