Red Hat Launches Ansible-Native Container Workflow Project
Community-powered Ansible Container enables complete container
creation from Ansible Playbooks, reducing reliance on external Docker
tools
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced the launch of Ansible Container under the
Ansible project, which provides the leading simple, powerful, and
agentless open source IT automation framework. Available now as a
technology preview, Ansible Container allows for the complete creation
of Docker-formatted Linux containers within Ansible Playbooks,
eliminating the need to use external tools like Dockerfile or
docker-compose.
While standardization is emerging for container formats in the form of
the Open Container Initiative, the tooling space is still fragmented,
with developers often forced to work outside of the enterprise
workstream to create and deploy containerized applications. Ansible
Container changes this dynamic, by bringing Linux container development
into the existing workstream through the easy-to-consume Ansible
Playbook, adding cloud-native application development side-by-side with
traditional application building.
Alongside Ansible Container, the Ansible project has also launched new
Kubernetes modules which allow for the production of Kubernetes
templates directly from an Ansible playbook. Combining the two new
offerings, IT teams can now build Linux containers directly from a
playbook and deploy to a Kubernetes-based container application
platform, like Red Hat OpenShift, in a more streamlined and efficient
manner.
Ansible enables developers and IT operators to more easily and quickly
deploy IT applications and environments, empowering them to remove
barriers between IT teams by automating routine activities such as
network configuration, cloud deployments, and creation of development
environments. Ansible’s modular code base, combined with ease of
contribution, and a community of contributors in GitHub, enables the
powerful IT automation platform to manage today’s infrastructure, but
also adapt to new IT needs and DevOps workflows.
With the capabilities of Ansible Container, users will be able to
automate their existing infrastructure and networks with Ansible
playbooks, while using additional playbooks to containerize their
applications and deploy them on a container application platform. This
allows for continuity of operations by preserving existing IT
investments and critical applications/systems without sacrificing
innovation in the form of cloud-native applications and container
orchestration at scale.
The automated container creation and deployment offered by Ansible
factor into Red Hat’s existing container infrastructure stack, which now
includes:
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A stable, container-centric operating system in Red Hat Enterprise
Linux Atomic Host.
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An enterprise-grade, Kubernetes- and Docker-native container
application platform through Red Hat OpenShift and the recently
announced next-generation OpenShift
Online public cloud service.
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Infrastructure management, automation and monitoring across hybrid
environments with Red Hat CloudForms, Red Hat Insights, Red Hat
Satellite and Ansible Tower by Red Hat.
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Massively-scalable private and hybrid cloud architecture for
large-scale container deployments through Red Hat OpenStack Platform
and Red Hat Cloud Suite, which also includes Red Hat OpenShift.
Red Hat’s container stack provides a fully-open, enterprise-grade
experience, from developers building cloud native applications to
operations teams managing and monitoring a diverse set of hybrid
applications and environments. Built entirely from upstream,
community-driven projects, Red Hat’s container portfolio provides the
innovation to drive the next-generation of enterprise IT while also
allowing for the retention of mission-critical modern and legacy systems.
For more details or to try it in its current form, visit the Ansible
Container project.
Supporting Quote
Greg DeKoenigsberg, director, Ansible community
“Many users
in our community have already grown accustomed to using Ansible to
deploy and manage their containers, and the Ansible Container project is
an encapsulation of many of the community’s best ideas, brought together
into a single tool. The user traction we’ve received in a fairly short
period of time indicates to us that we’re targeting a critical need in
the container tooling space.”
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