Watch: Install Ansible Automation Platform in Red Hat Ansible OpenShift Platform operator via Operator

How to install Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) via Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform operator on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (OCP).

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

![Ansible Automation Platform Operator](/articles/aap-operator-1.jpg "Ansible Automation Platform Operator")

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.

![AAP operator installation parameters](/articles/aap-operator-2.jpg "AAP operator installation parameters")

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 installed](/articles/aap-operator-3.jpg "AAP operator installed")

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.

![AAP operator dashboard](/articles/aap-operator-4.jpg "AAP operator