Answers: <p>The Ansible Tower <a href="https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-tower/latest/html/installandreference/requirements_refguide.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Requirements</a> still states</p>
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  <p>CentOS 7.7 or later 64-bit (x86)</p>
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  <p>however</p>
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  <p>you must have valid subscriptions attached before installing and running</p>
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  <p>An other option might be to use <a href="https://github.com/ansible/awx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Ansible AWX</a></p>
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  <p>AWX provides a web-based user interface, REST API, and task engine built on top of Ansible. It is one of the upstream projects for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.</p>
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Answers: Thanks, CentOS is apparently going away, so I don't really want to use that going forward. AWX has potential, but it also has a fairly dev-ish installation process, so I'm not sure about it either. I guess how "right" these suggestions are come down to the particular use case. For some these are totally enough.
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Body: <p>Red Hat's Ansible Tower's documentation states that it can only be run on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. I can see once upon a time it could be run on other distros, such as Ubuntu. Is there a free Linux distro that Tower can still be installed upon?</p>
  
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Comments: Have you considered AWX? https://github.com/ansible/awx
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Comments: BMitch, great suggestion and I didn't know about it. But the ask is about running Tower on a free distro
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Comments: Commercial product requires commercial distros (that's their choice likely for support reasons). But the free upstream project runs on free distros.
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Comments: BMitch, fair.. Though Tower did support CentOS, Ubuntu and others until very recently.
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Title: Ansible Tower on a Free Linux Distro?
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ThreadText: # Ansible Tower on a Free Linux Distro?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2021-09-09)
  
  Red Hat's Ansible Tower's documentation states that it can only be run on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. I can see once upon a time it could be run on other distros, such as Ubuntu. Is there a free Linux distro that Tower can still be installed upon?
  
  **Tags:** ansible
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: Have you considered AWX? https://github.com/ansible/awx  
  > **username_0**: username_1, great suggestion and I didn't know about it. But the ask is about running Tower on a free distro  
  > **username_1**: Commercial product requires commercial distros (that's their choice likely for support reasons). But the free upstream project runs on free distros.  
  > **username_0**: username_1, fair.. Though Tower did support CentOS, Ubuntu and others until very recently.  
  
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  ### Answer by username_2 on 2022-02-05. Score: 1
  
  The Ansible Tower [Requirements](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-tower/latest/html/installandreference/requirements_refguide.html) still states
  
  > CentOS 7.7 or later 64-bit (x86)
  
  however
  
  > you must have valid subscriptions attached before installing and running
  
  An other option might be to use [Ansible AWX](https://github.com/ansible/awx)
  
  > AWX provides a web-based user interface, REST API, and task engine built on top of Ansible. It is one of the upstream projects for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_0**: Thanks, CentOS is apparently going away, so I don't really want to use that going forward. AWX has potential, but it also has a fairly dev-ish installation process, so I'm not sure about it either. I guess how "right" these suggestions are come down to the particular use case. For some these are totally enough.  
  
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