Red Hat today announced Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 as the company’s new standard for hybrid cloud automation. Refined for the evolving realities of computing at hybrid cloud scale, the latest version of the platform adds self-contained automation capabilities while shifting automation more deeply into the application development lifecycle.
Ansible Automation Platform 2 introduces the concept of automation execution environments (taking the place of Ansible Engine), which deliver self-contained automation spaces that can be easily replicated and repeated across an organization. This helps teams scale and speed up the delivery of automation tooling across environments while also significantly reducing the operational overhead and complexity of maintaining a standard automation platform that spans the open hybrid cloud.
Additionally, automation content navigator helps teams more quickly validate that automation content is working as it should across even the largest environments. This helps automators, from developers to sysadmins, maintain operational consistency across their systems, from developer workstations to staging platforms to production.
The automation platform for Red Hat’s open hybrid cloud and edge portfolio
Improved collaboration breaks down workflow and development silos between traditional servers and virtual machines and cloud-native clusters running Red Hat OpenShift. The Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Operator integrates Ansible Automation Platform directly with Red Hat OpenShift, enabling smoother cloud-native deployment of automation clusters, easier management and migration of data and platform performance upgrades further cementing automation into cloud-native processes.
Red Hat is the expert in Ansible automation, which is why Red Hat Insights is well-suited to keep automation delivering optimal outcomes across the open hybrid cloud by. The service now contains the former Automation Analytics components with added features that include:
● Advisor for analyzing automation controllers against a set of recommendations from Red Hat’s deep experience in the space that assess availability, performance, stability and system security.
● Drift for creating an automation controller baseline that helps drive configuration consistency and better identify issues through historical system data analysis.
● Policies enables organizations to create unique internal policies that can identify and eliminate problem scenarios specific to their environment.
“We are seeing many organizations shift their automation priorities away from cost savings and towards agility and security. We are helping our customers to rapidly evolve their culture and processes, to automate at enterprise scale, some with tens of thousands of automation creators working across many teams and countries, sharing and reusing content. Red Hat’s Ansible Automation Platform 2.1 delivers the next-generation architecture, collaboration and content needed for organizations to automate across their hybrid clouds.” Commented Joe Fitzgerald, vice president and general manager, Ansible Business Unit, Red Hat
Availability
Ansible Automation Platform 2 Early Access is now available for all existing and prospective customers. Ansible Automation Platform 2.1 will be generally available in November 2021.
