From fb352dd187da6d1c8a8856ea27fe26d9cd355a84 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Moreau Simard Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2018 19:22:17 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Update FAQ about Tower to include AWX AWX has been open sourced, let's mention it. Change-Id: I15b0db9d39612e63024989dfaebf136b3742c04a --- doc/source/faq.rst | 14 ++++++++------ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/source/faq.rst b/doc/source/faq.rst index 62f174ea..775373ea 100644 --- a/doc/source/faq.rst +++ b/doc/source/faq.rst @@ -150,14 +150,15 @@ integration or continuous delivery. ARA aims to do one thing and do it well: Record Ansible runs and provide means to visualize these records to help you be more efficient. -Why don't you use Ansible Tower, Rundeck or Semaphore ? -------------------------------------------------------- +Why don't you use Ansible Tower (AWX), Rundeck or Semaphore ? +-------------------------------------------------------------- -`Ansible Tower`_ is a product from Red Hat that has not been open sourced -(*yet*). We do not know when it will be made freely available or when it will -become open source. +`Ansible Tower`_ is a product from Red Hat while `Ansible AWX`_ is the upstream +open source version of Tower. ARA is not mutually exclusive with either: you +can use it with your Tower or AWX deployment but it's only job is to provide +reporting. -Ansible Tower, Semaphore_ and Rundeck_ all have something in common. +Ansible Tower, AWX, Semaphore_ and Rundeck_ all have something in common. They are tools that control (or want to control) the whole workflow from end-to-end and they do so in a fairly "centralized" fashion where everything runs from the place where the software is hosted. @@ -188,6 +189,7 @@ For more information regarding the core values and the scope for the ARA project, refer to the project :ref:`manifesto `. .. _Ansible Tower: https://www.ansible.com/tower +.. _Ansible AWX: https://github.com/ansible/awx .. _Semaphore: https://github.com/ansible-semaphore/semaphore .. _Rundeck: http://rundeck.org/plugins/ansible/2016/03/11/ansible-plugin.html