Install Ansible automation portal (OpenShift Container Platform only)

Ansible automation portal makes enterprise automation accessible to users of varying roles and skill levels through a simplified web interface designed for business users, not automation experts.

Instead of requiring users to understand Ansible playbooks or complex automation workflows, Ansible automation portal provides a streamlined "point-and-click" experience.

Ansible automation portal uses your existing Ansible Automation Platform setup: it uses the same logins, same security controls, and the same automation logic.

Job templates in Ansible Automation Platform are synced to Ansible automation portal, where they appear as auto-generated self-service templates. Users can launch the auto-generated self-service templates in Ansible automation portal to run the corresponding job templates in Ansible Automation Platform.

When launching a job, users follow step-by-step guided forms in Ansible automation portal. These forms are identical to the forms for the equivalent job templates in Ansible Automation Platform.

You can also import custom self-service templates in Ansible automation portal. These templates are pulled from a git repository, and their configuration file associates them with a job template in Ansible Automation Platform. The configuration file contains the forms for the template.

You can associate more than one custom self-service template with one Ansible Automation Platform job template. You set the RBAC for the custom self-service templates in Ansible automation portal. Therefore you can set up different types of forms for users with different levels of automation experience.

For example, for a job template that configures network settings, you could associate a custom template with minimum scope for adjusting settings to a group with less automation experience, and use a more detailed custom template with deeper scope for configuration for automation experts.

Ansible automation portal connects with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform using an OAuth application for authentication.

The following restrictions apply:

  • You can only use one Ansible Automation Platform instance.
  • You can only use one Ansible Automation Platform organization.