4 Documentation Changes
For the latest Oracle Linux Automation Manager Release 2.0 and Release 1.0 documentation, see Oracle Linux Automation Manager documentation.
Release 2.2
Release 2.2 includes the following notable changes to existing documentation:
- Oracle Linux Automation Manager 2.2: Installation Guide: Includes ugrade procedures to release 2.2.
- Oracle Linux Automation Manager 2.2: User's Guide: The uplift to awx 23.7.0 includes some UI changes in various locations.
- Oracle Linux Automation Manager 2.2: Private Automation Hub Installation Guide: Now includes ugrade procedures to release 2.2.
- Oracle Linux Automation Manager 2.2: Private Automation Hub User's Guide: Some changes to the Builder Utility discussions about Python versions and some small changes to the format 1 and format 2 examples.
- Oracle Linux Automation Manager 2.2: CLI and API Reference Guide: The uplift to awx 23.7.0 includes some changes to the REST API and CLI.
Release 2.1
Release 2.1 includes the following new documents:
- Oracle Linux Automation Manager 2.2: Private Automation Hub Installation Guide: This document provides instructions about installing, backing up, and restoring Private Automation Hub and installing the Builder utility.
- Oracle Linux Automation Manager 2.2: Private Automation Hub User's Guide: This document provides instructions about using Private Automation Hub to manage collections and execution environments for use with Oracle Linux Automation Manager. In addition, this document provides instructions for using the Builder utility to create custom execution environments and upload them to Private Automation Hub.
Release 2.1 also includes the following notable changes to existing documentation:
- Oracle Linux Automation Manager 2.2: User's Guide: A new section is available about creating execution environments for using custom execution environment container images hosted on Private Automation Hub or on some other local container registry. New instructions are available about creating credentials for accessing custom execution environments and about creating credentials for accessing collections hosted on Private Automation Hub.
- Oracle Linux Automation Manager 2.2: Installation Guide: Existing installation procedures now includes information about using custom execution environments when defining default execution environments when running playbooks in Oracle Linux Automation Manager.
Release 2.0
The contents of Oracle Linux Automation Manager 1.0: Getting Started has been split into the
following books in release 2.0:
- Oracle Linux Automation Manager 2.2: Installation
Guide: The Installation Guide
provides the following information
- Hardware requirements
- Installation options
- Service Mesh topology examples
- instructions for installing on a single host with a collocated database
- instructions for installing on a single host with a remote database
- instructions for installing in a cluster of host with a remote database
- Instructions for configuring the Service Mesh nodes
- Instructions for adding and removing cluster nodes
- Instructions for upgrading Oracle Linux Automation Manager release 1.0 to release 2.0
- Oracle Linux Automation Manager 2.2: User's
Guide: The User's Guide provides
information about setting up permissions, teams, and users, setting up
resources, and using views. Notable additions in Release 2.0 include the
following:
- Setting up Work flow Templates
- Creating Schedules for Resources
- Viewing Execution Environments
- Managing Instance Groups
- Oracle Linux Automation Manager 2.2: Administrator's Guide: The Administrator's Guide includes information about general administrative tasks, configuring credential types, configuring notification templates, scheduling management jobs, and configuring settings. Notable additions in Release 2.0 include instructions for setting up LDAP authentication for user accounts configured in an LDAP server that log on to Oracle Linux Automation Manager.