Overall module count has grown more than 60
percent since January 2016
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open
source solutions, today announced the general availability of
Ansible 2.2, the latest version of the leading simple, powerful,
and agentless open source IT automation framework. Ansible 2.2
brings performance enhancements, expanded container and Windows
automation capabilities, and several new modules, including those
for networking, cloud provider platforms, and expanded vault
support.
The upstream Ansible project is one of the most popular open
source automation projects on GitHub with an active and highly
engaged community. A wide range of organizations, including Fortune
100 companies, use Ansible automation to power large and complex
private cloud environments. Ansible enables developers and IT
operations teams 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 2.2 continues the upstream momentum for Ansible,
introducing several new features, including:
Containers
New docker_network functionality enables users to manage docker
machine environments and automate their network layers
simultaneously. Combined with the ansible-container project, users
can now control more aspects of their container development and
deployment pipelines, including how containers communicate over a
network.
Networking
Ansible has experienced growth in its networking modules as more
users make network automation a priority. Since the Ansible 2.1
release in May 2016, Ansible’s supported networking platforms grew
from ten to 20, and total network module count has more than
doubled. These network modules now make up more than 20 percent of
the modules available in Ansible, and include numerous
contributions by both the Ansible community and networking
partners.
Ansible 2.2 expands this networking support with:
- Additional network device
support for several vendors, including Cisco (ASA); Dell; F5
Networks; Nokia SR-OS;Pluribus Networks (Open Netvisor) and
VyOS.
- Expanded and enhanced Cisco NX-OS
support provides modules designed to make it easier for
customers to operationalize Virtual Extensible LAN (VxLAN)
programmable datacenter fabrics through automation.
Cloud Services
Ansible 2.2 brings performance enhancements for cloud services,
spanning the Microsoft Azure platform, and VMware cloud
infrastructures. New functionality for cloud providers has been
added, including: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform
and OpenStack providers. Finally, new capabilities for VMware and
Amazon Web Services have been added. Ansible 2.2 features new
VMware virtual machine management modules and supports
new AWS capabilities, including Amazon Elastic File System
(EFS), Amazon Redshift and AWS Lambda.
Other enhancements are included in the Ansible 2.2 release.
Ansible Roles, the self-contained, portable and reusable Ansible
Playbook format, have been updated to allow for more user
flexibility. Future Ansible development roadmaps are available in
the Ansible community GitHub project, and are now open for
comment.
Supporting Quotes
Tim Cramer, engineering director, Ansible, Red Hat
“We are excited to see the results of the investments in our
Ansible Core engineering team, as well as continued community
momentum in our module development. Networking growth in Ansible
has been exciting, covering more than twenty percent of all our
modules. We are pleased to see continued momentum and commitment to
building open source automation solutions for a wide variety of
customers.”
Mary Johnston Turner, Research vice president, Enterprise System
Management Software, IDC
“As enterprises seek to leverage open source-based management
and automation solutions, this newest release of Ansible provides
the updates and Docker functionality that development teams can use
to incorporate multiple cloud platform capabilities and diversify
their workloads. The networking module growth also shows Ansible’s
commitment to bringing new network functionality in automation to
users.”
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