Fixed fee

Ansible Automation Platform 2.6: upgrade and migration

RHEL 8 to 9, RPM to containerized, AWX or Tower to AAP. A written plan and a runbook with rollback, from a former Red Hat Ansible engineer, at a price you know before the change window.

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Free call. You leave with a first read on your upgrade path either way.

AAP Upgrade Review

€2,900

One week, remote

You run AAP 2.4 or 2.5, Tower or AWX, and need to know what the move to 2.6 costs you before you commit a change window.

• Inventory of your controller, hubs, execution environments, collections and integrations
• Written migration plan: RHEL 8 to 9, RPM to containerized, AWX or Tower to AAP
• Risk register: custom EEs, credentials, RBAC, LDAP or SSO, callbacks, API clients
• Runbook with change windows, verification steps and rollback
• Two working sessions with your team, written report at the end

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Guided Migration

from €9,500

Two to four weeks, fixed fee after the review

You have the plan and want it executed without surprises. Your team does the work; I am in the room, on call and on the rollback.

• Everything in the review, if not done already
• Pre-flight checks, backups and a rehearsal on a staging controller
• Migration day with me on call; verification of every job template and schedule
• Post-migration hardening: EE pipeline, RBAC, credential rotation, monitoring
• Two weeks of follow-up for whatever the migration shook loose

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Prices exclude VAT. Teams larger than one controller cluster, or with more than three hubs, get a quote after the review.

What usually goes wrong

• Custom execution environments that nobody can rebuild
• Credentials and RBAC that only exist in the old controller's database
• Callback plugins, API clients and webhooks that break on the new API
• RHEL 9 changes (Python, SELinux, podman) found during the change window
• No rehearsal, so the rollback is a plan on paper

Who this is for

• Platform and infrastructure teams running AAP, Tower or AWX in production
• Regulated environments that need the change documented and reversible
• Teams with one or two Ansible people who cannot afford a failed cutover
• Red Hat partners who need a specialist for one engagement

The free guides this offer grew out of: the AAP 2.6 upgrade guide and the AAP hub on ansiblepilot.com.

Frequently Asked Questions

Why fixed fees?

Because an AAP upgrade has a known shape. After fifteen years of them, including inside Red Hat's Ansible engineering, I know where the time goes. You get a price before the change window, not a timesheet after it.

We are on AWX, not AAP. Does this apply?

Yes. AWX to AAP is the most common migration I do: same objects, different packaging, licensing and support model. The review tells you whether the move is worth it for your team, and the plan covers the data migration.

Containerized or RPM?

For 2.6 the containerized installer is where Red Hat invests, and it is what I recommend for new installs. For existing RPM installs the review weighs the cutover cost against your RHEL 9 timeline. Both paths are in the plan.

Can you do the work for us instead of with us?

The guided migration keeps your team on the keyboard on purpose: they run the platform afterwards. If you need hands-off delivery, say so on the call and I will quote it.

Upgrading more than Ansible?

If the AAP move is part of a wider platform change, the platform engineering service covers the rest of the stack.

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