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Understanding the Architecture
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Understanding the Architecture
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The Itential Automation Service is a licensed capability of Itential Cloud that helps customers deploy and scale their automation needs.
The Automation Service is made up of two parts, one of which is a SaaS component of Itential Cloud, and the other of which is the Itential Automation Gateway 5 (IAG5), which you deploy in your automation environment. IAG5 is an application that allows you to organize, manage, and run your Ansible, Python, and OpenTofu based automation scripts. For more information on IAG5, go here.
If your organization does not already have an Itential Automation Service account, you can sign up for a trial by visiting our Itential Automation Service Trial Sign-up page.
Once you have received your Welcome email and verified your account, you can log in. Once you are logged in, you will need to get IAG5 and configure it before you can connect it to Automation Service.
Automation Service Architecture
This diagram illustrates the architecture of the simplest setup for an Automation Service:
Illustration notes
The box labeled “Itential Platform” represents a licensable service of the Itential Cloud product, but does not play a role in the Automation Service architecture.
The boxes labeled “Git” and “Devices” represent customer owned components which IAG5 connects to to perform its various tasks. The activities related to configuring IAG5 to connect to Git and the devices is not covered here; please refer to the IAG5 documentation to learn how to configure and use IAG5.
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