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[…]

The Top 10 Ansible Blogs of 2022

Introduction If you’re looking to brush up on the most popular Ansible information from 2022 (or just grasping at any excuse to break away from your relatives for a few minutes during the holidays), you’ve come to the right place. What follows are the top 10 blogs that have captured the most attention from Ansible.com Read more about The Top 10 Ansible Blogs of 2022[…]

Using Ansible and Packer, From Provisioning to Orchestration

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform can help you orchestrate, operationalize and govern your hybrid cloud deployments.  In my last public cloud blog, I talked about Two Simple Ways Automation Can Save You Money on Your AWS Bill and similarly to Ashton’s blog Bringing Order to the Cloud: Day 2 Operations in AWS with Ansible, we Read more about Using Ansible and Packer, From Provisioning to Orchestration[…]

Ansible vs. Terraform Demystified

  Ansible and Terraform are two very powerful but unique open source IT tools that are often compared in competitive discussions.  We often see comparisons of the two tools – but many times, these comparisons are done purely from a “spec sheet” comparison. This type of comparison, while an interesting read, doesn’t take into account Read more about Ansible vs. Terraform Demystified[…]

What’s New: Cloud Automation with amazon.aws 4.0.0

When it comes to Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure automation, the latest release of the amazon.aws Collection brings a number of enhancements to improve the overall user experience and speed up the process from development to production. This blog post goes through changes and highlights on what’s new in the 4.0.0 release of this Ansible Read more about What’s New: Cloud Automation with amazon.aws 4.0.0[…]

Exploring New Possibilities with the AWS Cloud Control Collection

We recently made available an experimental alpha Collection of generated modules using the AWS Cloud Control API for interacting with AWS Services. This content is not intended for production in its current state. We are making this work available because we thought it was important to share our research and get your feedback.  In this Read more about Exploring New Possibilities with the AWS Cloud Control Collection[…]

Introducing a brand new way to automate your Azure Cloud

In December of 2021, Red Hat and Microsoft announced the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform on Microsoft Azure.  This year during Red Hat Summit 2022, Red Hat announced the General Availability of the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform on Microsoft Azure in North America with global availability coming soon.   I’d like to spend some time Read more about Introducing a brand new way to automate your Azure Cloud[…]