Red Hat Releases Ansible Tower 2.4
November 18 2015 - 12:00PM
Business Wire
New release from Red Hat's Ansible team
delivers authentication options for enterprise customers and
government organizations
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open
source solutions, today announced the release of Ansible Tower 2.4.
Ansible Tower 2.4 helps DevOps teams manage systems and optimize
deployments by adding control, security and delegation capabilities
to the simple, agentless, and powerful Ansible open source
automation tool.
Key new features in Ansible Tower 2.4 include:
- OAuth authentication via GitHub and
Google: Many organizations use external providers for handling
their identity and authentication. Ansible Tower 2.4 adds support
for pulling users and teams from either GitHub or Google Apps,
using OAuth2. With this support, Ansible Tower can pull from the
providers that organizations already have in place, avoiding user
or group duplication.
- Enterprise authentication support
for SAML 2.0 and RADIUS: Ansible Tower 2.4 extends existing
LDAP/AD enterprise authentication support by adding SAML 2.0 for
both identity and authorization management, and also RADIUS for
authentication. With these features, it is easy to integrate
Ansible Tower with the authentication mechanisms and features (such
as two-factor authentication) that enterprises already have in
place.
- Configurable Session Limits and
Timeouts: Many enterprises have specific security requirements,
such as enabling a user to only log into Ansible Tower from one
computer at a time. Ansible Tower 2.4 can now be configured not
just for session time (with auto-logout), but also to limit users
to a specific number of active sessions at any time. If security
needs require that a user only have one active session, Ansible
Tower 2.4 can invalidate any session the user may have active
elsewhere when the user logs in via a new computer.
- Custom Branding: Ansible Tower
administrators can now customize the Ansible Tower login logo, as
well as add custom login messages and banners that provide detailed
information about the systems being accessed.
Ansible Tower 2.4 is the first release since Red Hat acquired
Ansible in October 2015. With the addition of Ansible, Red Hat's
robust open hybrid cloud and IT management portfolio now
includes:
- Red Hat CloudForms, an open
management platform that provides orchestration, governance and
policy-based control across hybrid clouds enabling self-service
provisioning, and resource management as well as quota enforcement,
metering and chargeback.
- Red Hat Satellite, a
comprehensive lifecycle management solution with integrated
infrastructure provisioning, software distribution, patch
management and auditing capabilities.
- Ansible and Ansible Tower, an IT
automation and DevOps platform that provides significantly
simplified multi-tier application deployment and IT automation
across hybrid clouds.
Availability
Ansible Tower 2.4 is now generally available for a free 30-day
trial via Vagrant, Amazon EC2, or download for on-premise or cloud
installation. You can learn more about Ansible Tower and download a
trial of Ansible Tower at www.ansible.com/tower
Ansible Tower is available via subscription tiers suitable for
everyone from small companies to full-scale, mission-critical
enterprise DevOps teams. For pricing, visit
www.ansible.com/pricing
AnsibleFest San Francisco 2015
On Thursday, Nov. 19, 2015, Red Hat's Ansible team is hosting
AnsibleFest, a sold out, day-long conference in San Francisco,
bringing together hundreds of Ansible users, developers and
industry partners to share best-practices, case studies and Ansible
news. Learn more about AnsibleFest at
http://www.ansible.com/ansiblefest.
Supporting Quote
Tim Cramer, head of Ansible engineering, Red Hat
“Adopted by Fortune 100 companies and government organizations
worldwide, Ansible Tower offers ease of integration across the
board. The powerful identity management, authorization and
session-related capabilities in Ansible Tower 2.4 – the Ansible
team's first release since joining Red Hat last month - further
enable IT organizations to simplify their IT management with
simple, agentless, and powerful IT automation while keeping their
environment’s security requirements.”
Additional Resources
- Learn more about Ansible Tower and get
Ansible Tower 2.4
- Follow Ansible on Twitter
- Participate with the Ansible project on
GitHub
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