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Up until this point, we have a lot of good information about Ansible.

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There is one confusion that always around and I know a lot of system administrators have this confusion

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is open source Ansible versus RedHat Ansible is RedHat Ansible different from the open source Ansible?

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No.

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So let's take a look.

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Ansible itself is a free, open source software.

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It was purchased by Red Hat.

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Yes, in 2015.

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And it was software itself.

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The tool, the package itself is free, even though it is owned by Red Hat.

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So clarifying it once again, Ansible is the same software across all platforms.

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The only difference is Red Hat provides additional product, which is Ansible Tower and consulting or

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technical support for Ansible, which you don't get.

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If you just wanted to run Ansible and you don't need any support or you need any you don't need any

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Ansible Tower.

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You could get support from the community, but it's not guaranteed that you're going to get the response

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back in a timely fashion.

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Or if you have an slay that you need to fulfill, then it's better that you go with the consulting or

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technical support.

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All right.

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If you wanted to learn more about it, I would highly recommend you to go to dub dub dub dot red hat

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dot com.

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Let's take a quick look under red hat.

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Hence Ansible Tower Right Head provides Ansible Tower, which is gooey based graphical user interface

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based tool to manage ansible automation.

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Ansible Tower is a paid product by Red Hat and it manages multiple Ansible servers for a large enterprise

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environment.

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So if you have production, non-product or Key Way, all those different environments and you probably

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have your control node or Ansible server on all these different environments, then it's best that you

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use Ansible Tower.

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So Ansible Tower can manage all your nodes under one a single pane of glass.

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There is another tool which provides somewhat similar functionality as Ansible Tower, and that is Ansible

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AWACS.

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This tool is open source and it's of course a free software.

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Now when you use Ansible, you're not going to get the support from Red Hat.

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So if you are in a larger, huge, big environment, in corporate environment, my recommendation is

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always go with Ansible Tower.

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So you could get all the support that you need from Red Hat.

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But if you're still confident that you are able to manage your own environment without any support,

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then be my guest and go with Ansible a.