Announcing Containerized Ansible Automation Platform

Everything you know and love about Ansible Automation Platform in containerized form We’re excited to announce something that we’ve been working on for a while now, the technical preview of a containerized Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform solution. Currently, this will allow you to install and run containerized automation controller, Ansible automation hub, and the Read more about Announcing Containerized Ansible Automation Platform[…]

Automate OpenShift with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

OpenShift meets Ansible   We have seen many organizations compare themselves on how agile they are in the innovation journeys. When we talk about innovation, there are several aspects around it, like optimizing the existing IT, integrating apps/data/processes, adding and managing cloud infrastructure or modernizing the applications. But in order to partner with lines of Read more about Automate OpenShift with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform[…]

Automating Azure Infrastructure for High Availability Web Hosting with Ansible

Is it a hassle to set up the infrastructure for a new website every time you need to run a short-term project, such as a marketing campaign or just for testing? Do you spend too much on resources that are only used for a short period? Look no further, because automation is here to save Read more about Automating Azure Infrastructure for High Availability Web Hosting with Ansible[…]

Ansible Automation Platform … You’re using it wrong.

5 things you didn’t know your Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform could do When we think about automation, we tend to focus on efficiency. Automating simple or even complex tasks to streamline our processes – It’s one of the reasons organizations adopt and implement Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.  But what if we can take Read more about Ansible Automation Platform … You’re using it wrong.[…]

Ansible Validated Content: Introduction to infra.osbuild Collection

Introduction to the Image builder use case During the last year we met with multiple edge customers, covering the automation needs for IT Linux infrastructure at scale across remote locations where there is often no IT staff on site. Think about retail stores, dark stores and warehouses where self-checkout, handhelds and POS devices hosting RHEL Read more about Ansible Validated Content: Introduction to infra.osbuild Collection[…]

A Deeper Look: Red Hat Named a Leader in the Forrester Wave

This week, we announced that Red Hat has been named a leader in The Forrester Wave™ Infrastructure Automation, Q1 2023. In an effort to help explain this result from our point of view, the following blog answers some of the most frequently asked questions.   What is The Forrester Wave? “The Forrester Wave™ is a Read more about A Deeper Look: Red Hat Named a Leader in the Forrester Wave[…]

Enable Extensions on Azure Arc Connected Machines with Ansible Automation Platform

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 add additional value to your Arc-enabled infrastructure.  Since my previous article, all of these extensions have Read more about Enable Extensions on Azure Arc Connected Machines with Ansible Automation Platform[…]

Bringing faster updates to Ansible Automation Platform

In today’s fast moving world, schedule driven, incremental releases may not be what customers are looking for. After gathering input from both external and internal customers, there is a definite appetite for more content driven releases. Rather than waiting weeks to get official builds with a bug fix (schedule driven), most would like to have Read more about Bringing faster updates to Ansible Automation Platform[…]

Ansible Automation Platform Moving Towards Smarter Inventory

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.   The current Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform  Smart Inventory The current Smart Read more about Ansible Automation Platform Moving Towards Smarter Inventory[…]

The Zen of Ansible

[This blog post is based on my presentation at AnsibleFest 2022 in Chicago and virtually.] Recently, a suggestion was made to adopt Tim Peters’ “The Zen of Python”  as an overall guiding principle for designing good automation content. That gave me pause because it didn’t seem like the right thing to me. While there is Read more about The Zen of Ansible[…]