Ansible Engine, advanced network automation, and the latest version of Red Hat Ansible Tower accelerate the path to IT automation
Recently at AnsibleFest San Francisco, Red Hat unveiled several Ansible innovations designed to help enterprise customers harness the power of automation across the organization, from IT operations to network management development, including:
- Red Hat Ansible Engine, a new offering designed to provide the enterprise-grade global support that Red Hat is known for for the popular Ansible automation community project.
- Red Hat Ansible Engine Networking Add-on, which includes full support for selected network platform modules.
- Red Hat Ansible Tower 3.2, the latest version of its Ansible enterprise automation management platform.
With Red Hat Ansible Engine and Red Hat Ansible Tower, organizations can unify existing and disparate technologies into simple, repeatable, and automated processes. This can help expand access and fully manage the enterprise-wide deployment and adoption of business-critical automation. This organization-wide adoption can be important for IT organizations looking to implement DevOps, as well as IT disruptors using automation to help drive digital leadership.
With Ansible Engine, organizations can access enhanced, high-quality tools and innovations based on Ansible enterprise technology. Ansible Engine features:
- A suite of trusted Ansible automation modules and capabilities ready for the enterprise.
- 24x7 business hours support from the award-winning global support organization Red Hat.
- All the benefits of a Red Hat subscription, including Open Source Assurance, Service Level Agreement (SLA) response, regular security and maintenance updates, and much more.
Red Hat Ansible Engine is also available with the new Networking Add-on, which helps address a critical component of today's modern infrastructure. With network automation, IT organizations can now use fully supported Ansible modules, developed and maintained in-house, for many popular network devices. This offering includes full engineering support for the following Ansible network-specific modules:
- Arista (EOS)
- Cisco (IOS, IOS-XR, NX-OS)
- Juniper (Junos OS)
- Open vSwitch
- VyOS
Red Hat Ansible Tower 3.2 includes several new and improved features to help deliver greater value to IT teams, including the following capabilities:
- A more comprehensive approach:
- Updated inventory support allows users to create custom views to manage machines based on their attributes in public, private, and hybrid clouds.
- Tower instance groups dedicate capacity to specific organizations and inventory.
- Isolated tower nodes enable the ability to run local jobs in remote locations.
- Automate more flexibly:
SCM inventory support allows teams to fully manage automation and infrastructure as code.
Plugabble credentials allow users to define their own custom credentials, enabling integration with third-party credential storage.
Current Ansible Tower customers can add an Ansible Engine subscription to their Ansible Tower subscriptions at any time to get support for the underlying Ansible automation that powers Ansible Tower.
Red Hat Ansible Tower 3.2 is also the first version based on the open source AWX project, a new open source community project sponsored by Red Hat that allows users to interact directly and add features and capabilities to help drive innovation in Ansible Tower.
Red Hat Ansible Tower 3.2 will be available later this month through ansible.com and the Red Hat Customer Portal. Ansible Engine and Ansible Engine for Network Automation are expected to be available in early October as a standalone product or as part of a Red Hat Ansible Tower subscription.
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