Ansible

With the increasing size and complexity of modern enterprise networks, the demand on simplifying the networks management becomes more intense. The introduction of resources modules with Ansible Engine 2.9 provide a path to users to ease the network management, especially across multiple different product vendors.

The 2020 results of the NetDevOps Survey are out! This was the third time the survey was conducted and was targeted to the network automation community. But first, a huge shout out to the team that led this effort again (Damien Garros and ... [More] Francois Caen). The survey was 100% community-driven, and I thank them for allowing me to be a part of the team, and to provide feedback to existing and new questions. [Less]

Today we're thrilled to announce that the RHEL System Roles Collection is now certified with Ansible Automation Platform and is being delivered to organizations through Ansible Automation Hub. Starting with the forthcoming RHEL 8.4, this ... [More] means that the system roles Collection is immediately available under technology preview support and planned to be fully supported by both RHEL and Ansible Automation Platform product support experts.  [Less]

Businesses continue to have a high demand for automation. This is not limited to infrastructure components, but stretches across the entire IT, including the platforms supporting application deployments. Here often Kubernetes is the way ... [More] to go - and why in November we released the first Certified Content Collection for deploying and managing Kubernetes applications and services. Since then, the development and work in this area has only increased. That is why we recently released kubernetes.core 1.2. [Less]

Red Hat Virtualization (RHV) is a complete, and fully supported enterprise virtualization platform that is built upon a foundation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), oVirt virtualization management projects, and Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) technology in order to virtualize resources, processes and applications. 

As automation becomes crucial for more and more business cases, there is an increased need to test the automation code itself. This is where ansible-test comes in: developers who want to test their Ansible Content Collections for sanity ... [More] , unit and integration tests can use  ansible-test  to achieve testing workflows that integrate with source code repositories. [Less]

The Ansible community team has announced the release of Ansible 3.0.0 and here are the questions about the release that we’ve heard from community members so far. If you have a question that is not answered below, let us know on the mailing lists or IRC.

The Red Hat Ansible Product Team wanted to provide an update on the status and progress of Ansible’s foundational role as it pertains to the product, specifically as a deliverable for implementing automation as a language. That is ... [More] , Ansible as provided by aggregated low-level command line binary executables leveraging Python, with a YAML-based user abstraction. Specifically, the packaged deliverable is currently named Ansible Base, but will soon be named Ansible Core later this year. When people often generally refer to “Ansible,” this largely describes what people use directly as part of their day-to-day development efforts. [Less]

Version 3.0.0 of the Ansible community package marks the end of the restructuring of the Ansible ecosystem. This work culminates what began in 2019 to restructure the Ansible project and shape how Ansible content was delivered. Starting ... [More] with Ansible 3.0.0, the versioning and naming reflects the new structure of the project in the following ways:  [Less]

With Kubernetes, you get a lot of powerful functionality that makes it relatively easy to manage and scale simple applications and API services right out of the box. These simple apps are generally stateless, so the Kubernetes can deploy ... [More] , scale and recover from failures without any specific knowledge. But what if Kubernetes native capabilities are not enough? [Less]