- The latest version of the platform adds self-contained automation capabilities while shifting automation more deeply into the application development lifecycle.
- The capability connects disparate automation components together and provides status checks on automation environments across the IT estate
Red Hat, Inc has announced Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 as the company’s new standard for hybrid cloud automation.The latest version of the platform adds self-contained automation capabilities while shifting automation more deeply into the application development lifecycle.
In a study commissioned by Red Hat, 451 Research, part of S&P Global Market Intelligence, noted that respondents in its recent Voice of the Enterprise: DevOps, Organizational Dynamics survey identified the top cultural challenges of DevOps as overcoming resistance to change (35 per cent), promoting communication between teams not accustomed to working together (34per cent) and breaking down silos (33 per cent). As organisation-wide collaboration becomes a priority, so does the need for product and IT teams to standardize automation practices around the needs of the business while extending automation use cases to drive greater efficiency.
It said, “As hybrid and multicloud computing become critical IT components, IT organizations need automation platforms that can bridge traditional systems with these modern services, stretching from the enterprise datacenter to remote network edges. Ansible Automation Platform 2 is now fully restructured for a hybrid cloud-native world, making it easier for IT teams to address automation needs at scale across varied environments and systems in a standardized way. With the automation controller (formerly Ansible Tower), users can more reliably and consistently scale automation on demand, taking a systematic approach to standardizing automation practices while helping to reduce automation irregularities across the enterprise.”
The capability connects disparate automation components together and provides status checks on automation environments across the IT estate. Automation mesh is designed to connect across diverse environments with dispersed networks for more flexibility and resiliency without sacrificing security features, so enterprises can better adopt and scale automation.
It added, “With automation now spanning the hybrid cloud, the associated tools are no longer the domain of specialists. Both IT operations teams and developers must now be enabled as automators, but to do so requires automation technology that is easily portable, flexible and scalable to stretch across IT footprints. Ansible Automation Platform 2 helps extend the role of automator across the IT organization with its cloud-native architecture and new collaboration and developer tools for creating, testing, distributing and managing automation content.”
It said that Ansible Automation Platform 2 introduces the concept of automation execution environments (taking the place of Ansible Engine), which deliver self-contained automation spaces that can be easily replicated and repeated across an organization. Automation content navigator helps teams more quickly validate that automation content is working as it should across even the largest environments. This helps automators, from developers to sysadmins, maintain operational consistency across their systems, from developer workstations to staging platforms to production.
It added, “Red Hat is the expert in Ansible automation, which is why Red Hat Insights is well-suited to keep automation delivering optimal outcomes across the open hybrid cloud. The service now contains the former Automation Analytics components with added features that include Advisor for analyzing automation controllers against a set of recommendations from Red Hat’s deep experience in the space that assess availability, performance, stability and system security.
