What is Ansible AWX - ansible awx
AWX is a modern web UI and API to manage your organization's Ansible Playbook, Inventories, Vault, and Credentials. It is the Open Source upstream project of the Ansible Automation Controller (formerly Ansible Tower).


What is Ansible AWX?
AWX is the Open Source upstream project of the Ansible Automation Controller, part of the Ansible Automation Platform (formerly Ansible Tower). It’s great to look at AWX to discover new features of the Automation Controller, but it has a different release cycle and support. I’m Luca Berton and welcome to today’s episode of Ansible Pilot.
Ansible AWX vs. Ansible Automation Platform
- Apache License 2.0
- Ansible Automation Platform is fully supported by Red Hat, whereas AWX is supported by the community
- new builds approximately every two weeks
Ansible AWX is the upstream project of Ansible Automation Controller (formerly Ansible Tower), providing a modern web-UI and API interface to manage Ansible Playbooks, inventories, Credentials, and Vaults between your team in your organization. The AWX source code is available under Apache License 2.0. Ansible Automation Platform is fully supported by Red Hat, whereas the community supports AWX. The current release cycle is approximately every two weeks for new builds; stability may vary.
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