Red Hat Launches First Open Source Release of Ansible Galaxy
Open-sourcing the popular Ansible Role-sharing platform is aimed at
advancing automation and enabling Ansible users to set up private Galaxy
servers
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced the launch of the Ansible Galaxy project with
the full availability of Ansible Galaxy’s open-sourced code
repository. Ansible Galaxy is Ansible's official community hub for
sharing Ansible Roles. By open-sourcing Ansible Galaxy, Red Hat further
demonstrates its commitment to community-powered innovation and
advancing the best in open source automation technology.
The upstream Ansible project is one of the most popular open source
automation projects on GitHub with an active and highly engaged
community, encompassing over 2200 contributors. The number of Fortune
100 companies using Ansible automation to power large and complex
private cloud environments has grown.
Ansible Roles are content directories that are structured in a
conventional way to enable simple reuse, refactoring and sharing of
processes in ways that are highly portable across teams, organizations
and environments. Ansible Roles act as the “common language” of Ansible
functionality, and may include variables, handlers, files, templates,
tasks and modules.
As Ansible Roles are more widely used by organizations, the Ansible
Galaxy project has emerged as the best way to organize, search and share
them. With an open source Ansible Galaxy project, organizations can set
up a private Galaxy server, using the native Ansible Galaxy client,
redirected to their own private Galaxy repository. Users and
organizations can now also submit new features and enhancements directly
to the Ansible Galaxy codebase.
Supporting Quote
Tim Cramer, head of engineering, Ansible, Red Hat
“Open source communities are where innovation happens. The Ansible
community is thriving, and Red Hat hopes that by open sourcing the
Ansible Galaxy code repository, we will be able to advance open source
automation technology, and specifically Ansible Galaxy, in new and
interesting ways.”
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