Demystifying Ansible Automation Platform: A definitive way to manage Ansible Automation Platform and Ansible Tower

Excellent resource, I used this to help architect my Tower upgrade / AAP deployment. I particularly liked the charts/diagrams, great for visualizing what services chat with each other.Update ~6mo later: I upgraded our env from Tower 3.8.1 to AAP 2.2. This is the best 40 bucks I've ever spent.

Need any Tower help!! Sat thru AAP upgrade any book is a plus!!$$

Really appreciate the author sharing their real-world deployments at scale, Ansible is a very popular common open source tool, but not everybody deploys at scale across organizationally and this book helps give a lot of technical insights and best practices on deploying Ansible Automation Platform for success

The book does a great job introducing the Ansible project and upstream open-source components that a leveraged as part of the Ansible Automation Platform. In the first few chapters, Sean introduces the Galaxy-NG project and AWX as the upstream projects contributing to Ansible Automation Platform. After comparing and contrasting between the two paths "supported" vs. "upstream non-supported", the book dives into all the various components for AAP2.I've been teaching various Ansible courses and using Ansible for multiple years and this book serves as an excellent reference for Ansible Automation Platform as well as has various examples using some of the Ansible collections for automation. I've used this book as a reference when I haven't been able to find some of the items in Red Hat's documentation easily. One example of this is with some of the integration of Ansible Private Automation Hub with LDAP, leveraging SSO.This book is NOT a what is Ansible and how do I use Ansible. Instead, it focuses on Ansible Controller and Automation Hub and the various components and how to configure and use those components. The Ansible components it does focus in on are the Execution Environments and creating custom execution environments as well as how to create and use Ansible inventory plugins. Both of these topics are more geared towards Ansible Automation Platform 2.x which is why they are covered more in-depth. The missing piece for me here too was a chapter or section on collections and creating collections, although the book was never geared towards the creation of collections and teaching Ansible basics.There are however a few minor detractors from the book, but these are being addressed in the errata. Based on the earlier chapters and how quickly open-source, upstream project development changes, the instructions for setting up things like Galaxy-NG have already changed and the tags in the book don't exist. There wasn't a separate "fork" of the repository made for the book, so by relying on the repository and tags, things can change and break. The author and publisher of the book, however, have created a repository with playbooks and code/instructions for each chapter as well as errata for the items in the book, so this *should* be your source of truth when copy/paste of the examples in the book don't quite work right.Overall, this is an excellent text covering much of the most valuable components of Ansible Automation Platform 2.x.