Installation and deployment models
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 Supported upgrade and migration scenarios.
| Mode | Infrastructure | Description | Tested topologies |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |