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AWX provides a web-based user interface, REST API, and task engine built on top of Ansible. It is one of the upstream projects for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.

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Windmill: Open-source developer platform to turn scripts into workflows and UIs | May 2023
How does this compare to Ansible, and AWX?

https://github.com/ansible/awx

Semaphore – Modern UI for Ansible | Mar 2021
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Reading through their website (https://ansible-semaphore.com/), it seems like it comes down to responsive UI with material design, and being written in Go.

It's not clear what this offers over Ansible AWX (https://github.com/ansible/awx), which is the traditional Ansible UI.
Ansible Alternatives in Python | Jun 2020
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For reference, in Ansible land the two approaches to this would be https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/cli/ansible-pull.htm... or https://github.com/ansible/awx (upstream project of Ansible Tower)
Jenkins Is Getting Old | Apr 2019
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For periodic admin tasks, you might consider giving Ansible AWX a try (https://github.com/ansible/awx). It is a web interface for managing Ansible playbooks, and lets you configure jobs that another user can then execute and provide parameters. It keeps track of all run results, has a fair number of supported integrations for notifications, and can schedule runs.

I work for Red Hat, and AWX is the upstream community project for Ansible Tower, which we provide support for. AWX is one of our newer open source projects (we open sourced it after acquiring Ansible), so you'll sometimes have better luck searching for information on "Ansible Tower".
The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers (2015) | May 2018
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You can also get Tower's functionality with the free version called AWX, although not as polished. https://github.com/ansible/awx
Red Hat to Acquire CoreOS | Jan 2018
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Recent example: they open sourced Ansible Tower. They must've lost quite a few sales, but even after only a few months community contributions started flowing in.[1]

Red Hat really believes in the power of open source. It must be a great place to work at.

[1]: https://github.com/ansible/awx I wish more companies had that kind of courage.
Ansible open-sources Ansible Tower with AWX | Oct 2017
Quick links:

- Github Project: https://github.com/ansible/awx

- Project FAQ: https://www.ansible.com/awx-project-faq

- Demo Video (10min): https://www.ansible.com/tower-demo

- Remove angry potato logo: https://github.com/nanobeep/awx-logos

I do the curation for the 'Ansible & Friends' newsletter and we've been following this closely for a few months...

If you're interested in alternatives to Tower/AWX, see our listing in issue 64: https://hvops.com/news/ansible/64

Kudos to Jeff, he's quite prolific in the community. We've highlighted him recently in the "Community Heroes" section: https://hvops.com/news/ansible/64 And in our September issue, we had to give Jeff his own section because there were just too many great articles he had put out: https://hvops.com/news/ansible/67

(Full disclosure: Ansible Inc hired me a few years ago to update and automate the Tower documentation systems)

Ansible open-sources Ansible Tower with AWX | Oct 2017
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https://github.com/ansible/awx