Red Hat Introduces Ansible Tower 3 with Enhanced Capabilities for Scaling IT Automation across the Enterprise
Streamlined interface, smarter notifications, and simpler permissions
help DevOps teams to scale the power of automation and avoid repetitive
tasks
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced the general availability of Ansible Tower 3,
the latest version of its enterprise-grade agentless automation
platform. Ansible Tower 3 by Red Hat gives teams the power to scale
automation across the enterprise including streamlined interface, more
powerful notifications, and explicit permissioning. Ansible Tower
empowers users to extend their automation solutions to their entire
team, so they can build, share and scale automation cross-functionally
and consistently as they build out their DevOps capabilities.
Ansible Tower by Red Hat, built on top of the popular Ansible open
source automation project, helps teams manage complex multi-tier
application deployments by adding control, knowledge, and delegation to
Ansible-powered environments. Ansible Tower 3 includes new features and
integrations for IT administrators including:
- A streamlined interface, which helps teams better manage
complex deployments and speed productivity.
- Integrated notification support, notifications can now be sent
to specific recipients or entire teams through a variety of channels,
including: email; IRC; HipChat; Slack; and more making ChatOps for the
enterprise possible.
- Simplified yet powerful permissions for role based access
controls allows for easier delegation across different users and teams.
- New network management support in Ansible Towerbuilds onAnsible’s networking capabilities by adding a new permission type
for the management of network devices.
- Deeper integration with Red Hat offerings including Red Hat
CloudForms for hybrid cloud management and Red Hat Satellite.
Availability
Ansible Tower 3 by Red Hat is now generally available for a free 30-day
trial via Vagrant image, Amazon EC2 AMI, or download for on-premise or
cloud installation. Ansible Tower is available via subscription
tiers - users can learn more about Ansible Tower and download a
trial of Ansible Tower at www.ansible.com/tower.
Supporting Quotes
Tim Cramer, head of Ansible Engineering, Red Hat
“We’ve been paying attention to how teams are using Tower to extend
Ansible automation to many different aspects of their enterprises.
Ansible Tower 3 improves the user experience by making it more intuitive
to set up and run automation jobs quickly. And, users can more easily
extend permissions to team members, notifying the right people and
systems of results in real-time.”
Mary Johnston Turner, research vice president, IDC
“Many DevOps teams depend on open source based automation, such as
provided by Ansible and Ansible Tower, to streamline operations, reduce
configuration errors, and accelerate time to market. Ansible Tower 3
adds important network and cloud integrations, as well as improved
notifications and usability controls, that will help these teams further
improve productivity across end to end desktop to deployment tool
chains.”
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