Ansible 2.2 Delivers New Automation Capabilities for Containers, Networks and Cloud Services
Overall module count has grown more than 60 percent since January 2016
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 2.2, the
latest version of the leading simple, powerful, and agentless open
source IT automation framework. Ansible 2.2 brings performance
enhancements, expanded container and Windows automation capabilities,
and several new modules, including those for networking, cloud provider
platforms, and expanded vault support.
The upstream Ansible project is one of the most popular open source
automation projects on GitHub
with an active and highly engaged community. A wide range of
organizations, including Fortune 100 companies, use Ansible automation
to power large and complex private cloud environments. Ansible enables
developers and IT operations teams 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 2.2 continues the upstream momentum for Ansible, introducing
several new features, including:
Containers
New docker_network functionality enables users to manage docker machine
environments and automate their network layers simultaneously. Combined
with the ansible-container
project, users can now control more aspects of their container
development and deployment pipelines, including how containers
communicate over a network.
Networking
Ansible has experienced growth in its networking modules as more users
make network automation a priority. Since the Ansible 2.1 release in May
2016, Ansible’s supported networking platforms grew from ten to 20,
and total network module count has more than doubled. These network
modules now make up more than 20 percent of the modules available in
Ansible, and include numerous contributions by both the Ansible
community and networking partners.
Ansible 2.2 expands this networking support with:
- Additional network device support for several vendors,
including Cisco (ASA); Dell; F5 Networks; Nokia SR-OS;Pluribus
Networks (Open Netvisor) and VyOS.
- Expanded and enhanced Cisco NX-OS support provides modules
designed to make it easier for customers to operationalize Virtual
Extensible LAN (VxLAN) programmable datacenter fabrics through
automation.
Cloud Services
Ansible 2.2 brings performance enhancements for cloud services, spanning
the Microsoft Azure platform, and VMware cloud infrastructures. New
functionality for cloud providers has been added, including: Amazon Web
Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform and OpenStack providers. Finally,
new capabilities for VMware and Amazon Web Services have been added.
Ansible 2.2 features new VMware virtual machine management modules
and supports new AWS capabilities, including Amazon Elastic File
System (EFS), Amazon Redshift and AWS Lambda.
Other enhancements are included in the Ansible 2.2 release. Ansible
Roles, the self-contained, portable and reusable Ansible Playbook
format, have been updated to allow for more user flexibility. Future
Ansible development roadmaps are available in the Ansible community
GitHub project, and are now open for comment.
Supporting Quotes
Tim Cramer, engineering director, Ansible, Red Hat
“We are excited to see the results of the investments in our Ansible
Core engineering team, as well as continued community momentum in our
module development. Networking growth in Ansible has been exciting,
covering more than twenty percent of all our modules. We are pleased to
see continued momentum and commitment to building open source automation
solutions for a wide variety of customers.”
Mary Johnston Turner, Research vice president, Enterprise System
Management Software, IDC
“As enterprises seek to leverage open source-based management and
automation solutions, this newest release of Ansible provides the
updates and Docker functionality that development teams can use to
incorporate multiple cloud platform capabilities and diversify their
workloads. The networking module growth also shows Ansible’s commitment
to bringing new network functionality in automation to users.”
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