Red Hat has introduced Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 as their new hybrid cloud automation standard. The current version of the platform, which has been refined for the developing realities of computing at hybrid cloud scale, now includes self-contained automation capabilities as well as a deeper integration of automation into the application development process.
In a study commissioned by Red Hat, 451 Research, a division of S&P Global Market Intelligence, found that respondents in its recent Voice of the Enterprise: DevOps, Organizational Dynamics survey identified the top cultural challenges of DevOps as overcoming resistance to change (35 percent), promoting communication among teams not used to working together (34 percent), and breaking down silos as the top cultural challenges of DevOps (33 percent ). As the importance of cross-organizational collaboration grows, so does the need for product and IT teams to standardise automation methods around business goals while expanding automation use cases to increase efficiency.
IT organisations need automation platforms that can bridge traditional systems with these modern services, spanning from the company datacenter to remote network edges, as hybrid and multicloud computing become important IT components. Ansible Automation Platform 2 has been completely redesigned for a hybrid cloud-native world, making it easier for IT teams to meet automation needs at scale in a consistent manner across a variety of environments and systems. Users may more reliably and consistently expand automation on demand with the automation controller (previously Ansible Tower), providing a systematic approach to standardising automation procedures while helping to decrease irregularities in enterprises.
Ansible Automation Platform’s automation mesh addresses the requirement for automation at scale across the open hybrid cloud. The functionality connects various automation components and performs status checks across the IT estate on automation setups. Automation mesh connects disparate environments with scattered networks for increased flexibility and robustness without sacrificing security, allowing businesses to better embrace and scale automation.
The associated tools are no longer the domain of professionals, as automation now spans the hybrid cloud. Both IT operations teams and developers must now be able to act as automators, but this necessitates automation technology that is easily portable, versatile, and scalable enough to span several IT environments. With its cloud-native architecture and new collaboration and development tools for building, testing, distributing, and maintaining automation content, Ansible Automation Platform 2 helps extend the role of the automator across the IT business.
Automation execution environments (instead of Ansible Engine) are introduced in Ansible Automation Platform 2, which provide self-contained automation spaces that can be simply reproduced and repeated across an organisation. This allows teams to grow and accelerate the supply of automation tooling across environments while lowering the operational overhead and complexity of maintaining a single automation platform that spans the open hybrid cloud.
Additionally, the automation content navigator enables teams to more rapidly verify that automation content is functioning properly in even the most complex scenarios. This enables automators, ranging from developers to system administrators, to maintain operational uniformity throughout their systems, from developer workstations to staging platforms to production.
Between traditional servers and virtual machines and cloud-native clusters running Red Hat OpenShift, improved communication breaks down workflow and development silos. The Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Operator connects the Ansible Automation Platform to Red Hat OpenShift, allowing for easier cloud-native deployment of automation clusters, data management and migration, and platform performance upgrades, all of which help to further cement automation into cloud-native processes.
Red Hat Insights is well-suited to keep automation delivering optimal outcomes throughout the open hybrid cloud because Red Hat is an expert in Ansible automation. The service now includes the prior Automation Analytics components as well as the following new features:
