Using New Ansible Utilities for Operational State Management and Remediation

Comparing the current operational state of your IT infrastructure to your desired state is a common use case for IT automation.  This allows automation users to identify drift or problem scenarios to take corrective actions and even proactively identify and solve problems.  This blog post will walk through the automation workflow for validation of operational Read more about Using New Ansible Utilities for Operational State Management and Remediation[…]

Using NetBox for Ansible Source of Truth

Here you will learn about NetBox at a high level, how it works to become a Source of Truth (SoT), and look into the use of the Ansible Content Collection, which is available on Ansible Galaxy. The goal is to show some of the capabilities that make NetBox a terrific tool and why you will Read more about Using NetBox for Ansible Source of Truth[…]

New LibSSH Connection Plugin for Ansible Network Replaces Paramiko, Adds FIPS Mode Enablement

As Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform expands its footprint with a growing customer base, security continues to be an important aspect of organizations’ overall strategy. Red Hat regularly reviews and enhances the foundational codebase to follow better security practices. As part of this effort, we are introducing FIPS 140-2 readiness enablement by means of a Read more about New LibSSH Connection Plugin for Ansible Network Replaces Paramiko, Adds FIPS Mode Enablement[…]

Ansible + ServiceNow Part 3: Making outbound RESTful API calls to Red Hat Ansible Tower

Red Hat Ansible Tower offers value by allowing automation to scale in a checked manner – users can run playbooks for only the processes and targets they need access to, and no further.  Not only does Ansible Tower provide automation at scale, but it also integrates with several external platforms. In many cases, this means Read more about Ansible + ServiceNow Part 3: Making outbound RESTful API calls to Red Hat Ansible Tower[…]

Ansible + ServiceNow Part 2: Parsing facts from network devices using PyATS/Genie

This blog is part two in a series covering how Red Hat Ansible Automation can integrate with ticket automation. This time we’ll cover dynamically adding a set of network facts from your switches and routers and into your ServiceNow tickets. If you missed Part 1 of this blog series, you can refer to it via Read more about Ansible + ServiceNow Part 2: Parsing facts from network devices using PyATS/Genie[…]

Configure Network Cards by PCI Address with Ansible Facts

In this post, you will learn advanced applications of Ansible facts to configure Linux networking. Instead of hard-coding device names, you will find out how to specify network devices by PCI addresses. This prepares your configuration to work on different Red Hat Enterprise Linux releases with different network naming schemes. Red Hat Enterprise Linux System Read more about Configure Network Cards by PCI Address with Ansible Facts[…]