New release from Red Hat's Ansible team delivers authentication
options for enterprise customers and government organizations
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced the release of Ansible Tower 2.4. Ansible
Tower 2.4 helps DevOps teams manage systems and optimize deployments by
adding control, security and delegation capabilities to the simple,
agentless, and powerful Ansible open source automation tool.
Key new features in Ansible Tower 2.4 include:
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OAuth authentication via GitHub and Google: Many organizations
use external providers for handling their identity and authentication.
Ansible Tower 2.4 adds support for pulling users and teams from either
GitHub or Google Apps, using OAuth2. With this support, Ansible Tower
can pull from the providers that organizations already have in place,
avoiding user or group duplication.
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Enterprise authentication support for SAML 2.0 and RADIUS:
Ansible Tower 2.4 extends existing LDAP/AD enterprise authentication
support by adding SAML 2.0 for both identity and authorization
management, and also RADIUS for authentication. With these features,
it is easy to integrate Ansible Tower with the authentication
mechanisms and features (such as two-factor authentication) that
enterprises already have in place.
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Configurable Session Limits and Timeouts: Many enterprises have
specific security requirements, such as enabling a user to only log
into Ansible Tower from one computer at a time. Ansible Tower 2.4 can
now be configured not just for session time (with auto-logout), but
also to limit users to a specific number of active sessions at any
time. If security needs require that a user only have one active
session, Ansible Tower 2.4 can invalidate any session the user may
have active elsewhere when the user logs in via a new computer.
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Custom Branding: Ansible Tower administrators can now customize
the Ansible Tower login logo, as well as add custom login messages and
banners that provide detailed information about the systems being
accessed.
Ansible Tower 2.4 is the first release since Red
Hat acquired Ansible in October 2015. With the addition of Ansible,
Red Hat's robust open hybrid cloud and IT management portfolio now
includes:
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Red Hat CloudForms, an open management platform that provides
orchestration, governance and policy-based control across hybrid
clouds enabling self-service provisioning, and resource management as
well as quota enforcement, metering and chargeback.
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Red Hat Satellite, a comprehensive lifecycle management
solution with integrated infrastructure provisioning, software
distribution, patch management and auditing capabilities.
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Ansible and Ansible Tower, an IT automation and DevOps platform
that provides significantly simplified multi-tier application
deployment and IT automation across hybrid clouds.
Availability
Ansible Tower 2.4 is now generally available for a free 30-day trial via
Vagrant, Amazon EC2, or download for on-premise or cloud installation.
You can learn more about Ansible Tower and download a trial of Ansible
Tower at www.ansible.com/tower
Ansible Tower is available via subscription tiers suitable for everyone
from small companies to full-scale, mission-critical enterprise DevOps
teams. For pricing, visit www.ansible.com/pricing
AnsibleFest San Francisco 2015
On Thursday, Nov. 19, 2015, Red Hat's Ansible team is hosting
AnsibleFest, a sold out, day-long conference in San Francisco, bringing
together hundreds of Ansible users, developers and industry partners to
share best-practices, case studies and Ansible news. Learn more about
AnsibleFest at http://www.ansible.com/ansiblefest.
Supporting Quote
Tim Cramer, head of Ansible engineering, Red Hat
"Adopted by Fortune 100 companies and government organizations
worldwide, Ansible Tower offers ease of integration across the board.
The powerful identity management, authorization and session-related
capabilities in Ansible Tower 2.4 - the Ansible team's first release
since joining Red Hat last month - further enable IT organizations to
simplify their IT management with simple, agentless, and powerful IT
automation while keeping their environment's security requirements."
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