<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>
</blockquote>
<p>however</p>
<blockquote>
<p>you must have valid subscriptions attached before installing and running</p>
</blockquote>
<p>An other option might be to use <a href="https://github.com/ansible/awx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Ansible AWX</a></p>
<blockquote>
<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>
</blockquote>

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2022-02-07T17:54:55.970Z
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.
James T Snell
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U880D
<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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2021-09-09T22:43:34.747Z
Have you considered AWX? https://github.com/ansible/awx
BMitch
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BMitch, great suggestion and I didn't know about it. But the ask is about running Tower on a free distro
James T Snell
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2021-09-14T18:32:42.587Z
Commercial product requires commercial distros (that's their choice likely for support reasons). But the free upstream project runs on free distros.
BMitch
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2021-09-15T14:11:41.920Z
BMitch, fair.. Though Tower did support CentOS, Ubuntu and others until very recently.
James T Snell
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Ansible Tower on a Free Linux Distro?
James T Snell
# 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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## 1 answers

### 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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