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Luca Berton is an Ansible automation expert, author of "Ansible for VMware by Examples" and "Ansible for Kubernetes by Example" published by Apress, and creator of the Ansible Pilot YouTube channel. He shares practical automation knowledge through tutorials, books, and video courses to help IT professionals and DevOps engineers master infrastructure automation.
Install Ansible Automation Platform in Red Hat Ansible OpenShift Platform operator via Operator — Video Tutorial
How to install Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) via Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform operator on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (OCP).
What You'll Learn
- Ansible Automation Platform Operator
- AAP Operator installation
- AAP Operator usage
- Conclusion
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Ansible Automation Platform Operator
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform's latest release supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions 8 and 9 and Red Hat Openshift (the Red Hat Enterprise release of Kubernetes).
The Ansible Automation Platform Operator provides cloud-native, easy-to-install deployment of Ansible Automation Platform instances in our OpenShift environment version 4.9+.
AAP Operator installation

The easiest way is to install the Ansible Automation Platform Operator via the OperatorHub in the web console. Search for "Ansible Automation Platform", latest release is 2.3.0+0.1674778407. The operator installs all the dependencies, such as PostgreSQL 13.

Some parameters of the Ansible Automation Platform Operator installation:
- **Update Channel**: the exact version to install
- **Installation mode**: install the operator cluster-wise or only in a specific namespace
- **Installed namespace**: customize the default is the "aap" namespace
- **Update approval**: manual or automatic

AAP Operator usage
Once successfully installed, can access the Operator Dashboard to create instances of:
- **Automation Controller (AC)**: Deploy a new instance of AutomationController
- **Automation Controller Backup (ACB)**: Back up deployment of the controller, including jobs, inventories, and credentials
- **Automation Controller Restore (ACR)**: Restore a previous controller deployment from an AutomationControllerBackup. The deployment name you provide will be the name of the new AutomationController CR that will be created.
- **Automation Controller job template (JT)**: Define a new job template in the controller
- **Automation Controller job (AJ)**: Launch a new job via controller
- **Automation Hub (AH)**: Deploy a new instance of Automation Hub
- **Automation Hub Backup (AHB)**: Back up deployment of the hub, including all hosted Ansible content, secrets, and the database. By default, a persistent volume claim will be created using the default StorageClass on your cluster to store the backup.
- **Automation Hub Restore (AHR)**: Restore a previous hub deployment into the namespace.

We can create an instance of the Ansible Controller and access the Web dashboard to create users applying RBAC access criteria, fetch Ansible projects from the most common SCM, and run our automation using the Job Templates. The Ansible Controller Dashboard:

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About This Tutorial
- Author: Luca Berton
- Difficulty: Beginner
- Read time: 2 min
- Category: installation
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