Red Hat Helps Enterprises Embrace DevOps at Scale with Ansible Tower 3.1
Multi-Playbook workflows, scale-out clustering, and new search
capabilities help further deliver automation to IT teams
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
3.1, the latest version of its enterprise-grade, agentless automation
platform. Ansible Tower by Red Hat helps enterprises cut through the
complexities of modern IT environments with powerful automation
capabilities that can improve productivity and reduce downtime. New
additions to the latest version of the platform enable enterprises to
better scale DevOps automation and offer the ability to link multiple
Playbooks into longer, more complex jobs, enhancing productivity across
the business.
Ansible Tower by Red Hat internally uses the popular Ansible open source
automation project to help teams more effectively manage systems and
optimize multi-tier deployments while adding control, security and
delegation capabilities. Ansible Tower 3.1 includes several new and
enhanced features to help provide greater value to IT teams, including:
- Multi-Playbook workflows enable users to more easily string
together multiple existing jobs templates into a single job run -
without the need to create additional Playbooks. Powerful workflows
can be designed complete with decision points, logic branches, and
integrated notifications to fully orchestrate the application
lifecycle.
- Scale-out clustering increases the number of jobs that can be
run simultaneously.
- A more streamlined job details page provides more applicable
information that can be understood and used by a wider audience across
the enterprise. The job details page now provides job output
searching, and formats the data for easier reading and analyzing
without having to leave the Tower user interface.
- Integration with enterprise logging providers allow for
automation results to be indexed, monitored, and acted on as part of
enterprise-wide analytics and log aggregation installations.
- Universal search functionality allows users to search and
filter throughout Tower by the executing user, job templates by the
inventory used, and more.
- User interface localized for two new languages, Japanese and
French. The translated interface provides for Ansible Tower 3.1 use
across the global enterprise.
Availability
Ansible Tower 3.1 by Red Hat is available now through the Red
Hat Customer Portal.
Supporting Quote
Tim Cramer, head of engineering, Ansible, Red Hat
“DevOps
teams look to IT automation to help speed productivity and manage
complex deployments. The new workflow functionality in Ansible Tower 3.1
takes those capabilities a step further by helping to make automation
even more intuitive. With workflows, users can run separate playbooks in
a dependent fashion, including the ability to run different playbooks
based on the success or failure of the prior job - further reducing
manual process and enabling faster time to market.”
Mary Johnston Turner, research vice president, IDC
“Open
source automation technologies are important in the continued successful
evolution and adoption of DevOps within enterprise IT. Beyond just
providing automation tools, these technologies help collaborative
development and operations teams to cut through the complexities of
configuring and optimizing modern computing environments. Ansible Tower
3.1 addresses these priorities by automating complex workstreams and
making it easier for a wide range of developer and IT operations teams
to apply automation to their day to day roles.”
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