Red Hat this week announced Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 as the company’s new standard for hybrid cloud automation. Refined for the evolving realities of computing at hybrid cloud scale, the latest version of the platform adds self-contained automation capabilities while shifting automation more deeply into the application development lifecycle.
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.
Further addressing the need for automation at scale across the open hybrid cloud is automation mesh within Ansible Automation Platform. The capabilityconnects 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.
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.
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. This helps teams scale and speed up the delivery of automation tooling across environments while also significantly reducing the operational overhead and complexity of maintaining a standard automation platform that spans the open hybrid cloud.
Joe Fitzgerald, vice president and general manager, Ansible Business Unit, Red Hat
Red Hat’s Ansible Automation Platform 2.1 delivers next-generation architecture, collaboration and content to allow organizations to automate across their hybrid clouds.
