Red Hat Releases Ansible 2.0, Expanding Support for Hybrid Cloud Deployments and Introducing New Automation Capabilities
January 12 2016 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
Release of Popular Open Source IT Automation
Framework Simplifies Development of Playbooks and Includes 200 New
Modules
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE:RHT), the world’s leading provider of open
source solutions, today announced the general availability of
Ansible 2.0. This new release of the leading simple, agentless, and
powerful open source IT automation framework brings increased
stability, new automation capabilities, and new integrations with a
variety of services and providers, broadening support for public,
private, and hybrid cloud deployments, and expanding Ansible’s
footprint into Microsoft Windows environments and network
management.
Ansible is designed to enable developer and operators in IT
organizations to quickly learn and deploy the software, empowering
them to break down barriers between IT teams by automating routine
activities. Ansible 2.0 makes getting started with Ansible easier
than ever with the following improvements:
- Task blocks enable easier development
of playbooks and tasks, and additionally provide the option to
integrate exception handling and recovery;
- A refined playbook parser provides
clearer identification of errors and provides suggested fixes;
- New execution modes provide users with
ways to increase the speed of deployments across many
machines;
- Increased flexibility in tasks
facilitates easier reuse of automation content across a variety of
environments and contexts; and
- Logging playbook information to
services such as chat, email, or log aggregators can be easily
configured through newly included plugins.
Automation through community-powered innovation
With 2,000 contributors to its repositories on GitHub, and more
than 200 new contributors to the Ansible 2.0 release alone since
the last release, Ansible benefits from a worldwide community of
developers and users with diverse environments and use cases -
their participation and feedback enables Ansible to accommodate
requirements from nearly any IT organization.
The modularity of Ansible’s code base, combined with ease of
contribution, allows Ansible to manage today’s infrastructure, but
also rapidly adapt to new IT needs and integrate emerging
technologies created by contributors to the Ansible community.
Ansible 2.0 includes nearly 200 new modules spanning the public,
private and hybrid cloud that accommodate for containers,
networking, Windows - empowering users to automate more things than
ever before.
New module addition highlights include:
- A completely new set of modules for
managing OpenStack, the leading open source cloud computing
framework, developed in concert with the OpenStack community;
- 30 new modules for improving and
expanding the support for Amazon Web Services;
- Greatly expanded support for
configuring and managing VMware environments;
- Expanded support for managing Microsoft
Windows environments;
- Substantial improvements to the Docker
module and new Docker connection plugin; and
- Improved support for network
automation.
Availability
Ansible 2.0 is now available via GitHub, PyPi, and package
manager for most major Linux distributions. For users seeking more
control, security, and delegation for their Ansible deployments,
Ansible Tower is available via subscription tiers suitable for
everyone from small companies to full-scale, mission-critical
enterprise devops teams.
Supporting Quotes
Tim Cramer, head of Ansible Engineering at Red Hat
“We strongly believe that our users should be able to focus on
improving their business, rather than learning complex tools.
Ansible 2.0 expands upon that vision by delivering increased
flexibility in the Ansible Playbook automation language, while
still retaining the ease-of-use and simplicity that enables
developers and operators to get started quickly.”
Monty Taylor, OpenStack Technical Committee and core member,
OpenStack Infrastructure team
“Ansible is embraced by many users and operators in the
OpenStack ecosystem. The OpenStack Infrastructure team is proud to
have participated in the development of the OpenStack modules in
Ansible 2.0, which provide comprehensive and interoperable support
for OpenStack for both cloud operators and cloud users."
Additional Resources
- Get Ansible 2.0
- Attend the upcoming webinar “What's New
in Ansible 2.0”
- Discover ways to contribute to the
Ansible community
- Follow Ansible on Twitter
- Find an Ansible meetup near you
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high-performing cloud, Linux, middleware, storage and
virtualization technologies. Red Hat also offers award-winning
support, training, and consulting services. As a connective hub in
a global network of enterprises, partners, and open source
communities, Red Hat helps create relevant, innovative technologies
that liberate resources for growth and prepare customers for the
future of IT. Learn more at http://www.redhat.com.
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