Red Hat recently announced several upgrades to its enterprise automation platform, including the latest version of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform with new Red Hat Certified Ansible Content Collections, automation services catalog and private Automation Hub.
In a related announcement, Red Hat previewed an integration between Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management and Ansible Automation Platform, bridging the divide between traditional IT environments and cloud native, container-based solutions. This integration unites two of Red Hat's platforms, Red Hat OpenShift and Ansible Automation Platform, to drive automation across the open hybrid cloud.
Introduced in 2019, Ansible Content Collections provide a standardized method for automation developers to build and package automation content, and for implementers to consume them in a portable and scalable way. Ansible Content Collections bring guardrails and structure to automation content, packaging Collections into categories based on automation domain or platform. Collections delivered in Ansible Automation Hub are certified by the Ansible partner network and are tested, validated and fully supported for enterprise-class production environments.
Ansible Automation Hub is a managed cloud service to provide easy access to certified Ansible content for customers, maintained by Red Hat and its partners. As automation efforts expand across organizations, individual teams often look to integrate automation as part of their overall IT strategy, while IT leaders want the ability to ensure security and manageability of unsupported content.
Announced at Red Hat Summit 2020, the automation services catalog makes enterprise-specific, pre-approved, curated automation available to infrastructure and application teams, as well as to business users.
The latest version of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is slated for November release, including private Automation Hub on-premise or in the cloud of your choice.
Joe Fitzgerald, VP, Management, Red Hat
Ansible has evolved into a defacto standard for automation and became one of the top 10 open source projects in the world, according to a most recent study. Red Hat has built an automation platform for enterprises to more easily access, consume and share Ansible content to significantly reduce the time-to-automation.
