Red Hat Launches Ansible-Native Container Workflow Project
June 20 2016 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
Community-powered Ansible Container enables
complete container creation from Ansible Playbooks, reducing
reliance on external Docker tools
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open
source solutions, today announced the launch of Ansible Container
under the Ansible project, which provides the leading simple,
powerful, and agentless open source IT automation framework.
Available now as a technology preview, Ansible Container allows for
the complete creation of Docker-formatted Linux containers within
Ansible Playbooks, eliminating the need to use external tools like
Dockerfile or docker-compose.
While standardization is emerging for container formats in the
form of the Open Container Initiative, the tooling space is still
fragmented, with developers often forced to work outside of the
enterprise workstream to create and deploy containerized
applications. Ansible Container changes this dynamic, by bringing
Linux container development into the existing workstream through
the easy-to-consume Ansible Playbook, adding cloud-native
application development side-by-side with traditional application
building.
Alongside Ansible Container, the Ansible project has also
launched new Kubernetes modules which allow for the production of
Kubernetes templates directly from an Ansible playbook. Combining
the two new offerings, IT teams can now build Linux containers
directly from a playbook and deploy to a Kubernetes-based container
application platform, like Red Hat OpenShift, in a more streamlined
and efficient manner.
Ansible enables developers and IT operators to more easily and
quickly deploy IT applications and environments, empowering them to
remove barriers between IT teams by automating routine activities
such as network configuration, cloud deployments, and creation of
development environments. Ansible’s modular code base, combined
with ease of contribution, and a community of contributors in
GitHub, enables the powerful IT automation platform to manage
today’s infrastructure, but also adapt to new IT needs and DevOps
workflows.
With the capabilities of Ansible Container, users will be able
to automate their existing infrastructure and networks with Ansible
playbooks, while using additional playbooks to containerize their
applications and deploy them on a container application platform.
This allows for continuity of operations by preserving existing IT
investments and critical applications/systems without sacrificing
innovation in the form of cloud-native applications and container
orchestration at scale.
The automated container creation and deployment offered by
Ansible factor into Red Hat’s existing container infrastructure
stack, which now includes:
- A stable, container-centric operating
system in Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host.
- An enterprise-grade, Kubernetes- and
Docker-native container application platform through Red Hat
OpenShift and the recently announced next-generation OpenShift
Online public cloud service.
- Infrastructure management, automation
and monitoring across hybrid environments with Red Hat
CloudForms, Red Hat Insights, Red Hat Satellite and Ansible
Tower by Red Hat.
- Massively-scalable private and hybrid
cloud architecture for large-scale container deployments through
Red Hat OpenStack Platform and Red Hat Cloud Suite,
which also includes Red Hat OpenShift.
Red Hat’s container stack provides a fully-open,
enterprise-grade experience, from developers building cloud native
applications to operations teams managing and monitoring a diverse
set of hybrid applications and environments. Built entirely from
upstream, community-driven projects, Red Hat’s container portfolio
provides the innovation to drive the next-generation of enterprise
IT while also allowing for the retention of mission-critical modern
and legacy systems.
For more details or to try it in its current form, visit the
Ansible Container project.
Supporting Quote
Greg DeKoenigsberg, director, Ansible community“Many users in
our community have already grown accustomed to using Ansible to
deploy and manage their containers, and the Ansible Container
project is an encapsulation of many of the community’s best ideas,
brought together into a single tool. The user traction we’ve
received in a fairly short period of time indicates to us that
we’re targeting a critical need in the container tooling
space.”
Additional Resources
- Learn more about containers
- Get Ansible
- Attend Ask an Expert Webinar on
Containers, Wednesday, July 13
- Attend AnsibleFest San Francisco,
Thursday, July 28
- Discover ways to contribute to the
Ansible community
- Follow Ansible on Twitter
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