Step By Step ( Learn Alphie )

These are Alphie’s left sidebar sections in the UI. Each button opens a focused workspace for building, running, and monitoring your automations.

• Dashboard — High-level health, recent jobs, failures you actually care about.
• Jobs — Every runbook event: Id of the run, Status: FINISHED / FAILED / CANCELED, and the output of the run.
• Pipelines — Multi-step automation flows, branching, Status: FINISHED / FAILED / CANCELED, the log of the pipeline, and each runbook log.
• Schedules — Time-based or recurring automation (patch Tuesday, nightly cleanup, etc.), With require approval before each run options.
• Runbooks / Pipelines — Create, Execute your runbooks and pipelines with real time logging.
• Access Packages — Pre-approved bundles of access you can grant in one click.
• Automation Sets — Bundled runnable logic, files, and vars that ship together and deploy cleanly.
• Target / Hosts — Create Target (Inventory), Hosts, and Sets (Hosts Groups) with extra variables
• Email Notifications — Send email alerts for runbook/pipeline results—successes, failures, and more—with a snippet of the job log.
• Profile — Get your personal Clientid, Client Secret, Generate personal Bearer Tokens for api's, and a YAML to Json conveter to help with extra variable sections.
• Users & Groups — Create local user accounts, Assign admin rights to users, Enable / disable accounts, Create Groups to keep users work environments seperated.
• Runtime Realms — Create Execution environments for Runbooks and Pipelines, With a few simple clicks.
• Notifications — Create/Edit Variables for access packages, and add external emails not associated with users.
• Configuration — Setup ldap, or saml login access. Server health check settings, Plus backup options including Database.
• Runners — Execution workers. This is where the "do the thing" actually happens.

Follow these steps in order, to run your first Runbook / Pipeline in Alphie.

• 01 — As Admin - Build a Runtime Realm.
• 02 — As Admin - Create Extra Varibles as needed, in Notifications.
• 03 — Create Usernames, Passwords, SSH Keys in Access Packages.
• 04 — Create A Automation set to download your ansible playbooks in Automtion Sets.
• 05 — Create A Inventory,Hosts and sets in Target / Hosts.
• 06 — Create your first Runbook in Runbooks / Pipelines.
• 06 — Create your first Pipeline in Runbooks / Pipelines.
• 07 — Launch your first Runbook or Pipeline and watch it work.

Alphie ↔ AWX/AAP quick reference

Note: Names differ, but the core concepts map closely. Use this table as a quick translator when moving between Alphie and AWX/AAP.