Supported Platforms with Red Hat Ansible Engine
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The following article details the specific control nodes (the nodes that Ansible Engine is installed on) as well as the managed nodes (the nodes that Ansible Engine are connecting to and automating).
Platform Support Matrix - Red Hat Ansible Engine
| Control Nodes | Managed Nodes |
|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7.2 and later (and select derivatives) (x86_64 only)* |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 and later (and select derivatives)* |
| Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (x86_64 only) | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 and later (and select derivatives)* |
| Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (x86_64 only) | Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (x86_64 only) |
| Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (x86_64 only) | |
| Windows Server 2008, 2008 R2 | |
| Windows Server 2012, 2012 R2 | |
| Windows Server 2016 | |
| Network Devices: * Arista EOS * Cisco IOS, IOS-XE, IOS-XR, NX-OS * Juniper Junos OS * VyOS NOTE: Specific versions of Red Hat Ansible Engine are tested against specific versions of the above network operating system platforms. Red Hat does not maintain a list of actual hardware mapped to platforms above. Please refer to the original equipment manufacturer for complete networking hardware and software compatibility. |
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| Others - unlisted RHEL variants, SuSE, Solaris, AIX, etc. Commercially reasonable support only (i.e. replicate it on supported platform) |
* As part of a bundled offering with Ansible Tower, Ansible Engine must support Ansible Tower supported platforms.