FusionLayer Playbook is Now a Standard Ansible Feature
September 26 2017 - 07:11AM
Business Wire
FusionLayer today announced that the latest Ansible release made
on September 19, 2017 ships with FusionLayer Infinity Playbook as a
standard feature. Thanks to the inclusion, all Ansible users will
now be able to leverage FusionLayer Infinity for network and
release parameter provisioning as part of their automated
Information Technology (IT) processes without having to install any
additional software on their Ansible instances.
At Ansiblefest, on September 7, 2017 in San Francisco, Red Hat
Inc. announced the upcoming Ansible version 2.4 geared towards
harnessing the power of organization-wide automation. As part of
this initiative, the company also unveiled a new networking add-on
in an effort to expand the Ansible footprint also into the
networking realm.
“The inclusion of FusionLayer Infinity Playbook into Ansible as
a standard feature is very timely” said Teemu Sorvisto, the
Chief Executive of FusionLayer. “With a rapidly growing installed
base of joint customers running Ansible and FusionLayer Infinity
side by side, we felt that introducing an even simpler way to
integrate the two systems would add a lot of value to our
enterprise customers.”
Most enterprises working on Hybrid IT and multi-cloud strategies
continue to manage their enterprise network assignments with
spreadsheets. These manual management processes increase the risk
of overlapping networks and IP allocations that can lead to service
downtime, and slow down the onboarding new application workloads.
The virtual appliances offered by industry incumbents such as
Infoblox also fall short, requiring a costly onboarding process
that takes weeks to carry out.
FusionLayer eliminates these issues by centralizing the
management of all enterprise networks. With native support for
popular infrastructure solutions such as Amazon Web Services (AWS),
Ansible by Red Hat, Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI),
F5 Networks, Microsoft Azure, Nuage by Nokia and VMware, the
FusionLayer solution allows all networks and release parameters to
be provisioned from a single REST API regardless of whether the
network infrastructure is being run in public clouds or in
on-premise data centers.
“We have seen an increasing number of enterprise customers that
run an architecture consisting of AWS, Cisco, F5, Microsoft and Red
Hat” continued Teemu Sorvisto. “With plug-and-play support
for all these technologies, FusionLayer Infinity is the ideal
solution for organizations gearing up for IT transformation
projects.”
The Infinity Playbook for Ansible is a standard feature in
Ansible version 2.4, and is publicly available to all users with
the Ansible community. To learn more and see a 1 minute video how
to provision a network in seconds with Ansible and Infinity
visit https://www.fusionlayer.com/solutions/devops-and-automation.
About FusionLayer
FusionLayer automates workflows and simplifies network
management for service providers, data centers and enterprises that
operate at scale. The company’s vendor agnostic technology
unleashes network agility by powering interoperability between
SDN-enabled, cloud-based and existing networks. Nine out of 10 of
the world’s largest service providers leverage
FusionLayer. Visit www.fusionlayer.com/.
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