Red Hat has made available the Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed integrated with IBM watsonx Code Assistant, a generative AI service to help enterprises accelerate IT automation across an organization.
Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed generates content recommendations from user prompts, working with IBM watsonx Code Assistant to access IBM foundation models and quickly build Ansible content.
As part of the Ansible Automation Platform subscription and natively integrated with the Ansible Visual Studio Code extension, developers and operators don’t need to log into or access a separate tool or service to access the potential of Ansible Lightspeed with watsonx Code Assistant.
Ansible Lightspeed with watsonx Code Assistant helps translate existing subject matter expertise into more compliant Ansible automation content and best practices that scale across teams and the enterprise. Ansible Lightspeed with watsonx Code Assistant scans existing Ansible content to help standardize and improve quality through its recommendations, as well as adhere to industry-standards. The service also helps safeguard private data through data isolation, so sensitive customer information remains untouched and possible data leaks are minimized.
Red Hat states that IBM watsonx Code Assistant for Ansible Lightspeed is now available for purchase separately, with fine-tuning capabilities to train custom models specific to organizations expected for customers later this year.
Keri Olson, VP, Product Management, IBM watsonx Code Assistant
AI and IT automation have drastically accelerated innovation across industries, but there are still so many untapped possibilities that we can achieve in technology. The tech preview of Ansible Lightspeed with IBM watsonx Code Assistant gave us a snapshot into what’s possible when we combine domain-specific AI with IT automation.
Ashesh Badani, SVP and Chief Product Officer, Red Hat
AI offers an immense opportunity for enterprises to accelerate innovation. To help our customers contextualize AI, Red Hat has forged two paths to make it practical and specific to their existing priorities: delivering a foundation for building, tuning and maintaining AI workloads and AI-infused capabilities for our platforms, including Ansible. We’ve already shown what domain-specific AI can do for IT automation at the community level, and the general availability of Ansible Lightspeed with watsonx Code Assistant has the potential to close skills gaps, create greater organizational efficiencies and free enterprise IT to deliver even more business value.
