Ansible Academy · Lesson

AWX vs Automation Platform vs CLI

When you outgrow the command line.

You Have Outgrown the CLI

Running ansible-playbook from your laptop works solo, but a whole team needs shared history, access control and a button anyone can press. ⚙️

AWX is the free, open-source upstream project that puts a web UI and REST API in front of Ansible, so runs happen on a server, not your machine.