Latest Version of Red Hat Ansible Engine Enables New Cloud, Network, and Windows Automation
Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.6 extends automation across AWS, Google
Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, and VMware, brings new capabilities to
network and Windows environments
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 Red Hat Ansible
Engine 2.6, the latest release of its simple, powerful, and agentless
open source IT automation solution. Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.6 adds new
content for automating across hybrid and multicloud
environments, along with simplified connections to network APIs and
updates for Ansible deployments overseeing Windows environments.
When Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.6 combines with Red Hat Ansible Tower, Red
Hat’s centralized control plane for managing and optimizing automated
systems at enterprise scale, organizations can more easily extend
automation across complex footprints. This includes hybrid and
multicloud environments as well as diverse infrastructure, network, and
application deployments.
The new features available in Ansible Engine are aimed at enabling users
to more rapidly expand their infrastructure, without expanding manpower.
Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.6 focuses on three key areas of automation:
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Multicloud
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Network
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Windows
Simplified multicloud provisioning
Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.6 helps organizations provision in public cloud
and in on-premises virtualization infrastructure more simply through
updated modules covering Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud
Platform and Microsoft Azure. The public cloud modules add capabilities
designed to match the latest functionality available in the respective
cloud environments. Additionally, an improved AWS EC2 Instance module
can provide a more streamlined user experience when provisioning new and
managing existing EC2-backed instances. When users provision their cloud
infrastructure with Ansible Engine, creating, managing, and
administering deployments on an ongoing basis is done through a single
tool -- helping to meet policies regardless of cloud provider.
This release also extends the support for VMware vSphere-deployed
infrastructure, including VMware Cloud on AWS, enabling users to use
automation across the hybrid
cloud including legacy infrastructure. Additionally, the new VMware
modules improve support for tags, fact gathering, and host management.
The modules also extend automation beyond the operating system layer to
enable automated application lifecycles on these infrastructure
deployments.
Enhanced networking capabilities
Red Hat Ansible Network Automation 2.6 delivers new vendor agnostic
modules that provide users with a common language. Previously, network
managers learned vendor-specific commands, which could be both time
consuming and create additional complexity. Through new networking
modules available in Ansible 2.6, a single language can be used across
multiple network environments, including Juniper and Cisco.
Additionally, new connection mechanisms available in Ansible Engine 2.6
help simplify management connections to network devices.
In addition, Ansible now offers support for InfoBlox, including a
collection of critical network services (DHCP, DNS, and IPAM),
collectively known as DDI. The fully-supported Infoblox modules
available in Ansible Engine 2.6 enable customers to more easily automate
the IP address selection, reservation, assignment, and retirement
process without human intervention. Additionally, the Infoblox support
enables users deploying systems across multiple clouds as well as
virtualization platforms to more effectively automate their IP address
management next to their application deployments.
Simplified Windows automation
Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.6 extends Ansible’s capabilities for automating
Windows environments with new features and enhancements for managing
computers and active directory, scheduling tasks, and better error
handling.
Improved extensibility
Additionally, with the new capabilities in Ansible Engine 2.6, users can
now more easily and programmatically extend Ansible in their
environments with new plugins for Red Hat OpenStack Platform, Red Hat
Satellite, Red Hat Virtualization, Amazon EC2, Google Cloud Platform and
Microsoft Azure. This enhancement is designed to streamline how Ansible
calls inventories and receives data back, helping to make inventory
modules easier to maintain and upgrade.
Ansible Galaxy 3.0
In addition to Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.6, Red Hat also recently
launched a new version of its Ansible
Galaxy service, a public-facing hub for community and
partner-generated Ansible Roles to make it easier to find and share
Ansible content. This latest version of Ansible Galaxy features an
improved user interface, modernized code base, and new containerized
infrastructure provided by Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated. This release
also adds support for OpenShift Ansible Broker content to define and
distribute multi-container services on Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated using
the greater simplicity and power of Ansible Automation.
Availability
Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.6 is available now through the Red
Hat Customer Portal.
AnsibleFest
Red Hat will host AnsibleFest Austin on Oct. 2-3, 2018. Register for the
event here.
Supporting Quote
Joe Fitzgerald, vice president, Management, Red Hat
“The
latest version of Red Hat Ansible Engine builds on our strategy to help
users extend automation across their public, private, and hybrid clouds.
New cloud, network and Windows capabilities can drive end-to-end
automation throughout the enterprise.”
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