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.

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 Supported upgrade and migration scenarios.

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Table 1. Ansible Automation Platform installation and deployment models
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.

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.

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.