Huawei recently announced the release of its CloudEngine switch networking modules for Ansible, the leading simple, powerful, and agentless open source IT automation framework.
Huawei has collaborated with the upstream Ansible open source community to create Ansible networking modules of CloudEngine switches, one of the core components of Huawei’s CloudFabric data center network solution. The networking modules can be deployed in production environments to help customers achieve automated network operation and maintenance (O&M) in a more secure, efficient, and reliable way.
Huawei said cloud computing and virtualization have promoted the development of microservice and container technologies, which in turn can help simplify the implementation of DevOps, a model combining development and operations capabilities. Now, many enterprises are focusing their attentions on DevOps.
Huawei added that the upstream Ansible project is one of the most popular open source automation projects on GitHub with an active and highly engaged community. Ansible enables developers and IT operators to more easily and quickly deploy IT applications and environments, empowering them to remove barriers between IT teams by automating routine activities such as network configuration, cloud deployments, and creation of development environments.
Ansible’s modular code base, combined with ease of contribution, and a community of contributors in GitHub, enables the powerful IT automation platform to manage today’s infrastructure, but also adapt to new IT needs and DevOps workflows.
Greg DeKoenigsberg, Director, Ansible Community
This can help network teams take advantage of new deployment paradigms, including configuration automation, test-driven network deployment, and continuous compliance. We are pleased that Huawei has created Ansible modules that offer network automation support for CloudFabric.
Yu Li, GM, Huawei Data Center Network Domain
The Ansible open source community is an important part of our CloudFabric Open Ecosystem. We believe that the release of these networking modules is a special milestone in our collaboration with the Ansible project and a great contribution to the open source community. Huawei plans to deepen our collaboration through the upstream Ansible community to help further advance network automation innovation.
