Red Hat Provides Increased Control, Rich Integration, Greater Scalability and Container Support with Latest Version of Red Hat Ansible Tower
Red Hat Ansible Tower 3.3 available on Red Hat OpenShift Container
Platform for push-button deployment
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 Tower 3.3, the latest version of its enterprise framework
for automating and orchestrating IT operations. Red Hat Ansible Tower
3.3 includes an updated user interface, improved scaling and the ability
to run Ansible Tower on Red
Hat OpenShift Container Platform, Red Hat’s enterprise-grade
Kubernetes container application platform. The latest version of the
automation platform will be demoed at AnsibleFest,
the annual user conference for the Ansible community and Red Hat Ansible
Automation users, taking place in Austin, Texas, Oct. 2-3, 2018.
The ability to more quickly and easily collaborate across teams and
platforms is a necessity in today’s disparate IT environments. The
latest version of Red
Hat Ansible Tower helps to address this need by enabling
organizations to take a more agile and consistent approach to managing
Red Hat environments and hybrid infrastructure. With new features in
Ansible Tower 3.3, users can extend and scale automation across teams
and IT footprints through enhanced delegation and permissions,
integration with legacy processes and standards and an enhanced ability
to share Ansible playbooks.
Additionally, to help organizations automate more flexibly and to match
the structure of their infrastructure, Red Hat Ansible Tower 3.3 is now
available as a pod service and configurable directly from Red Hat
OpenShift Container Platform, enabling users to add more capacity to
Ansible Tower simply by adding more pods. Simplifying what was
previously a multi-step process, users can now scale Ansible Tower up
and down at runtime as needed directly through Red Hat OpenShift
Container Platform’s user interface, CLI and API.
Additional new features and enhancements available in Red Hat Ansible
Tower 3.3, include:
- More granular control: A redesigned user interface puts more
information at the user’s fingertips. Jobs and job templates now show
more information at a glance, including inventory and credentials,
enabling users to find information more quickly. Additionally, Ansible
Tower 3.3 allows for even easier configuration of jobs for use in
scheduling and workflows. Any item on a job that is configurable at
launch, including inventory, credentials, even surveys, can have its
configuration saved to be used in a workflow or in a schedule.
- Improved scaling: Scaling is critical for enterprise users and
Red Hat Ansible Tower 3.3 builds on instance groups, which allow for
reserving Tower cluster capacity for specific organizations,
inventory, or jobs. New features in instance groups improve how to
manage capacity in Tower without having to restart the cluster.
- Support for custom Ansible environments: Users can now create
tailored Ansible environments that include custom modules, custom
libraries, and even multiple Ansible versions. Application teams can
stay on their trusted version of Ansible Engine while other teams can
upgrade on their schedules.
- Enhanced integrations: Allows for easier management of
integrations, including improved authentication support, more granular
control of LDAP, and the ability to create tokens for third-party
applications directly from Ansible Tower.
AnsibleFest 2018
AnsibleFest 2018 is expected to be the largest to date, taking place in
Austin, Texas, Oct. 2-3, 2018. This year’s event features six different
breakout tracks: Network Automation, Ansible Integrations, Business
Solutions, Best Practices, Community and Culture, and Technical Deep
Dives. An added area this year is the Getting Started Hub for those just
getting started with Ansible and Red Hat Ansible Tower. Attendees will
hear talks and success stories from customers and partners including:
American Airlines; Chevron; Cisco; ING; Microsoft; Service Master, and
many more. The full agenda and registration for the event is available here.
Availability
Red Hat Ansible Tower 3.3 is available through ansible.com and the Red
Hat Customer Portal.
Supporting Quote
Joe Fitzgerald, vice president, Management, Red Hat
“As more
organizations move toward modernizing their infrastructure, tools that
can work seamlessly across environments become a critical part of that
equation. Red Hat Ansible Tower can already run where it's needed across
hybrid environments and now with the Red Hat OpenShift Container
Platform functionality available in Ansible Tower 3.3 we take that a
step further by making the platform consumable in more ways for even
easier automation across infrastructures.”
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