Red Hat Extends Confidence and Reliability Through Automation with Ansible Certified Content Program
New Red Hat Ansible Automation Certification Program to provide
tested, trusted and supported solutions for automating across
environments at scale
AUSTIN – ANSIBLEFEST 2018--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE:RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced the Red Hat Ansible Automation Certification
Program to more readily deliver tested, trusted and supported Red Hat
Ansible Automation. With more than two million customer systems now
managed by Red Hat Ansible Tower, the certification program is intended
to help further accelerate user deployment times by providing improved
security, reliability and consistency of content.
As IT infrastructures grow in complexity, the need for automation
becomes more pressing. To help address the challenge, Red Hat is driving
Ansible into more domains and expanding the supported use-cases for
automation across infrastructure, networks, containers and more,
enabling users to more easily automate more tasks in more ways. In
addition, to help organizations more securely expand their automation,
Red Hat is now offering certified Ansible content, helping users
mitigate risks and security concerns associated with consuming
automation content from unknown sources.
Trusted, Tested, Supported Automation
Ansible Modules and Plugins that are developed through Red Hat and
partners can be submitted to the program, where they are scanned against
known vulnerabilities, checked for compatibility and validated to work
in production. This provides assurances to end users that a certified
module will perform as expected in mission-critical environments.
Red Hat Ansible Automation and Red Hat Ansible Tower users can use the
program to more easily find and access certified modules, including
those from third-parties. Regardless of whether a module originates from
Red Hat or a partner, all content within the program undergoes rigorous
evaluation and testing. Additionally, the certified content will have a
similar lifecycle to Ansible Engine, are regularly re-evaluated for
certification qualification over time, and are fully-backed with Red
Hat’s award-winning support.
Ansible Certified Partners
At introduction, Cisco (ACI, NSO, NX-OS, and UCS product families),
CyberArk, F5 Networks, Infoblox, NetApp and Nokia are all participating
in the certification program. Together, these ecosystem partners are
expected to offer more than 275 Ansible Certified modules in addition to
what Red Hat currently supports, helping expand the breadth of
enterprise automation.
Supporting Quotes
Joe Fitzgerald, vice president, Management, Red Hat
“The
sheer complexity of modern IT environments make automation a necessity,
but production environments require automation tools that are tested and
trusted to work in tandem with critical systems. With certified Ansible
modules available through the Red Hat Ansible Automation Certification
Program, we are providing users with ready access to rigorously tested
content with performance that has been verified, all backed by the
support and expertise for which Red Hat is known.”
Ranga Rao, senior director, Product Management and Solutions
Engineering, Cisco
“Automation is a key focus for modern data
centers, and Cisco is delighted to be a partner in the Red Hat Ansible
Automation Certification Program. The combined capabilities of Ansible,
Cisco ACI, NXOS and UCS enable IT organizations to simplify the
management of their day-0 , day-1 and day-2 operations in mission
critical production environments.”
Adam Bosnian, executive vice president, Global Business Development,
CyberArk
“CyberArk supports the goals of the Red Hat Ansible
Automation Certification Program to give organizations the confidence
they need to further embrace automation, while prioritizing security.
CyberArk's inclusion in the Certification Program is another step toward
building privileged access security into modern infrastructure
initiatives, adding credibility and support for our joint solutions.
This milestone also extends CyberArk's integrations across the Red Hat
portfolio to broaden our reach and impact within global organizations.”
Calvin Rowland, senior vice president, Business Development, F5
Networks
"With the Red Hat Ansible Automation Certification
Program, our joint customers will get the end to end support on
automating F5 application services that mission-critical environments
demand."
Biren Fondekar, vice president, Engineering, NetApp
"Ansible
plays a significant role in NetApp's mission to empower DevOps teams
with data, tools and services that deliver strategic advantage. By
working closely with Ansible to release 66 new modules through the Red
Hat Ansible Automation Certification Program, we’ve demonstrated our
commitment to providing more consistent developer environments. In a
world where the demands on developers’ time and resources are
exponentially expanding, our collaboration with Ansible delivers the
innovation to enable developers to create without waiting on IT teams
and, ultimately, maintain their ability to drive business value.”
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