<p>The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operations_support_system" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Wikipedia definition of Operational Support System</a> (OSS) makes it sound like a term of art from telecommunication companies.  I haven't seen this come up in systems administration over many years of working in this area.  The top vendors in the OSS space are Ericsson, Nokia, and Huawei.  I never see those guys trying to help me manage cloud deployments, so I don't feel there's much overlap with what Ansible Tower does.</p>
<p>Ansible Tower provides a GUI for working with the anisble configuration management tool.  While this provides similar functionality to what it seems an Operational Support System to be, I doubt Ansible Tower is being used as an OSS by anyone.  It wasn't mentioned in any of the product comparisons I googled for OSS vendors.</p>
<p>Tools similar to Ansible Tower would be in categories like deployment tools or infrastructure visualization.  A few examples of these:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.rundeck.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">rundeck</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.deployhub.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">DeployHub</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.theforeman.org/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Foreman</a></li>
</ul>
<p>There's also overlap with CI/CD tools.</p>

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<p>I just started my career as a  BA. As the first task, I have to study about operational support systems like ansible tower. I could not find any references to study about this. What are the similar operational support systems to ansible tower? Are there any references to study about them.</p>

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Clarification about Operational Support System
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# Clarification about Operational Support System

(Asked by: username_0 on 2020-07-16)

I just started my career as a BA. As the first task, I have to study about operational support systems like ansible tower. I could not find any references to study about this. What are the similar operational support systems to ansible tower? Are there any references to study about them.

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### Answer by username_1 on 2020-07-21. Score: 2

The [Wikipedia definition of Operational Support System](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operations_support_system) (OSS) makes it sound like a term of art from telecommunication companies. I haven't seen this come up in systems administration over many years of working in this area. The top vendors in the OSS space are Ericsson, Nokia, and Huawei. I never see those guys trying to help me manage cloud deployments, so I don't feel there's much overlap with what Ansible Tower does.

Ansible Tower provides a GUI for working with the anisble configuration management tool. While this provides similar functionality to what it seems an Operational Support System to be, I doubt Ansible Tower is being used as an OSS by anyone. It wasn't mentioned in any of the product comparisons I googled for OSS vendors.

Tools similar to Ansible Tower would be in categories like deployment tools or infrastructure visualization. A few examples of these:

* [rundeck](https://www.rundeck.com/)
* [DeployHub](https://www.deployhub.com/)
* [Foreman](https://www.theforeman.org/)

There's also overlap with CI/CD tools.


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