Red Hat Introduces Ansible Tower 3 with Enhanced Capabilities for Scaling IT Automation across the Enterprise
July 20 2016 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Streamlined interface, smarter notifications,
and simpler permissions help DevOps teams to scale the power of
automation and avoid repetitive tasks
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open
source solutions, today announced the general availability of
Ansible Tower 3, the latest version of its enterprise-grade
agentless automation platform. Ansible Tower 3 by Red Hat gives
teams the power to scale automation across the enterprise including
streamlined interface, more powerful notifications, and explicit
permissioning. Ansible Tower empowers users to extend their
automation solutions to their entire team, so they can build, share
and scale automation cross-functionally and consistently as they
build out their DevOps capabilities.
Ansible Tower by Red Hat, built on top of the popular Ansible
open source automation project, helps teams manage complex
multi-tier application deployments by adding control, knowledge,
and delegation to Ansible-powered environments. Ansible Tower 3
includes new features and integrations for IT administrators
including:
- A streamlined interface, which
helps teams better manage complex deployments and speed
productivity.
- Integrated notification support,
notifications can now be sent to specific recipients or entire
teams through a variety of channels, including: email; IRC;
HipChat; Slack; and more making ChatOps for the enterprise
possible.
- Simplified yet powerful
permissions for role based access controls allows for easier
delegation across different users and teams.
- New network management support
in Ansible Tower builds on Ansible’s networking capabilities by
adding a new permission type for the management of network
devices.
- Deeper integration with Red Hat
offerings including Red Hat CloudForms for hybrid cloud
management and Red Hat Satellite.
Availability
Ansible Tower 3 by Red Hat is now generally available for a free
30-day trial via Vagrant image, Amazon EC2 AMI, or download for
on-premise or cloud installation. Ansible Tower is available via
subscription tiers - users can learn more about Ansible Tower and
download a trial of Ansible Tower at www.ansible.com/tower.
Supporting Quotes
Tim Cramer, head of Ansible Engineering, Red Hat
“We’ve been paying attention to how teams are using Tower to
extend Ansible automation to many different aspects of their
enterprises. Ansible Tower 3 improves the user experience by making
it more intuitive to set up and run automation jobs quickly. And,
users can more easily extend permissions to team members, notifying
the right people and systems of results in real-time.”
Mary Johnston Turner, research vice president, IDC
“Many DevOps teams depend on open source based automation, such
as provided by Ansible and Ansible Tower, to streamline operations,
reduce configuration errors, and accelerate time to market. Ansible
Tower 3 adds important network and cloud integrations, as well as
improved notifications and usability controls, that will help these
teams further improve productivity across end to end desktop to
deployment tool chains.”
AnsibleFest San Francisco
July 28, 2016
AnsibleFest is a day-long conference bringing together hundreds
of Ansible users, developers and industry partners to share
best-practices, case studies and Ansible news. Attendees include
DevOps engineers, operations engineers, open source fans, systems
engineers, system administrators, operations staff, release
engineers, DBAs, network engineers and security professionals.
Learn more about AnsibleFest and register to learn more about the
next advancements in enterprise automation.
Additional Resources
- Watch an Ansible Tower 3 demo
- Get Ansible Tower 3
- Attend AnsibleFest San Francisco on
July 28
- Attend an upcoming webinar on Ansible
Tower 3 on Aug. 3, 2016
- Discover ways to contribute to the
Ansible community
- Follow Ansible on Twitter
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