Ansible

One of the key announcements at AnsibleFest 2022 was the introduction of the Event-Driven Ansible developer preview. This technology is currently available on GitHub and accessible by technology providers and end users to provide feedback ... [More] and drive the ecosystem. ISVs and consulting/service partners are specifically invited to create event driven automation content that makes it easy for customers to use in joint solutions. [Less]

Breaking news! Red Hat just announced Ansible Automation Platform’s availability on Google Cloud Marketplace. 

Last year, I blogged about how to use Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform to migrate Azure Arc-enabled servers from Azure Log Analytics Agents (MMA/OMS) to Azure Monitor Agent (AMA).  Azure Arc supports a number of other extensions that can ... [More] add additional value to your Arc-enabled infrastructure.  Since my previous article, all of these extensions have been added to the azure.infrastructure_config_demos collection that contains a role for managing Arc-enabled server VM extensions with Ansible. [Less]

 

TL;DR What is this? It has been a long term ask and our desire to make Smart Inventory, well, smarter. We’ve listened to feedback, and are now addressing not only direct customer asks but also presenting solutions to make it better overall.

On November 29, we launched Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.3, which included new and exciting features including improvements for Configuration as Code (CaC). Ansible Automation Platform 2.3 also includes improvements to automation ... [More] controller as well as the introduction of Ansible validated content. This blog post will walk you through what CaC is and the benefits it can bring to your organization, including a UI and API walkthrough of automation controller and how to take a full Configuration as Code approach to your automation infrastructure.   [Less]

[This blog post is based on my presentation at AnsibleFest 2022 in Chicago and virtually.]

We introduced resource modules in Ansible 2.9, which provided a path for users to ease network management, especially across multiple different product vendors. This announcement was significant because these resource modules added a well ... [More] structured representation of device configurations and made it easy to manage common network configurations. [Less]

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