What's New in Ansible Automation Platform 2.7

Today we released Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.7, which builds on previous releases with more features and enhancements to help you enable a platform engineering approach to automation, accelerate adoption across different teams, and prepare your IT operations for AI-driven automation.  

Here's a look at what's included in our latest release. 

Empower platform engineering and boost developer productivity 

The self-service automation portal, released with Ansible Automation Platform 2.6, allows ITOps teams to make automation available to users who are not automation experts yet need easy access to automation job execution. This allows IT operations teams to rapidly scale automation to more domains without sacrificing governance and control. As of Ansible Automation Platform 2.7, IT operations teams can now deploy the self-service automation portal on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9 or 10 as well as through a Red Hat OpenShift operator with the following new capabilities: 

Execution environment builder 

The automation portal now includes a visual execution environment builder that eliminates what can often be a manual, inefficient process that requires command-line expertise. That process can now be represented in a visual step-by-step workflow in the portal. 

In addition to simplifying the execution environment build process, the self-service automation portal helps enforce consistency across the organization, eliminating manual configuration that often leads to environment drift. Automation developers can select from a pre-defined template or create a custom one, select required Ansible Content Collections, and download or push to a Git repository. 

Test drive the execution environment builder. 

Visual execution environment builder 

Centralized content discovery 

Within the automation portal, you can also continuously and automatically synchronize and aggregate multiple automation content sources (private automation hub and Git repos). This capability simplifies the execution environment build process while enabling governance by leveraging built-in role-based access and authentication integrations. Platform teams now have full control over which content is surfaced to which teams. Learn more. 

Ansible development workspaces

Ansible development workspaces give your team a more secure, browser-based development environment with everything pre-configured and with Red Hat best practices included. Automation developers can more securely and efficiently create, test, and deploy automation content within a framework. For administrators, workspaces provide centralized management, consistent policy enforcement, and governance, which is especially valuable for locked-down or regulated environments.

Automation coding assistant with more model integrations

The automation coding assistant, formerly Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed, has extended model support beyond IBM watsonx Code Assistant to include Red Hat AI and Google Gemini. Learn more. 

Accelerate automation adoption and governance

With Ansible Automation Platform 2.7, our product and engineering teams continue to prioritize ease of adoption and time to value, so users can start automating faster, accelerating time to value. 

Native OIDC integration with HashiCorp Vault

We've modernized our approach to identity management to support automation in zero trust environments. Ansible Automation Platform now acts as a native OIDC identity provider for HashiCorp Vault, enabling automation jobs to authenticate with short-lived, job-specific tokens instead of long-lived service accounts. Each token is scoped to a specific job, user, and organization and is automatically revoked after execution. For platform administrators, this capability reduces the operational burden of managing separate credential lifecycle. For compliance teams, it means a clear audit trail that ties every secret access to a specific automation run.

OIDC identity authentication with HashiCorp Vault 

Integration of the automation dashboard

The automation dashboard allows you to easily monitor, track, and report the value automation brings to your organization. While still available as a standalone utility, the automation dashboard reports can now be viewed directly within the platform (now in Technology Preview with planned general availability later in 2026). This eliminates context switching between discrete utilities, and provides a streamlined view to monitor and measure job success rates, cost savings, and ROI, and more. 

Bring-your-own-knowledge to the automation intelligent assistant

The automation intelligent assistant (formerly the Ansible Lightspeed intelligent assistant) uses a generative AI retrieval augmented generation (RAG) pipeline to connect with Red Hat documentation and other trusted resources for faster troubleshooting, onboarding, and day-to-day management of the platform. The intelligent assistant now supports the ability to "bring your own knowledge" (Technology Preview support), allowing you to inject your organization's internal policies and procedures into the model's RAG pipeline for more relevant, reliable responses that reflect your specific internal standards and best practices.

Unlock AI-driven automation

Automation and AI aren't competing ideas; they're complimentary. In fact, the existing playbooks and workflows you've successfully automated for years can now act as the governance for AIOps use cases and agent-driven automation. With Ansible Automation Platform 2.7, we're bringing AI and automation closer together to help simplify how you manage both the platform and your IT operations.  

MCP server for Ansible Automation Platform

Our new MCP server (Technology Preview support) allows AI to interact directly with the platform, augmenting how you manage and troubleshoot your automation estate. Through natural language prompts, you can query jobs, gather facts, and even launch automation workflows. This innovation shifts the management experience from manual API calls and UI navigation to a conversational, agent-driven model that increases your overall operational efficiency. Read the documentation. 

AIOps solution guides

Our latest solution guides for AIOps workflows offer step-by-step expertise for implementing complete AIOps workflows using solutions from popular observability platforms such as IBM Instana, ServiceNow, and Splunk. Following our practical, expert-created guidance, you can act on insights and intelligence from these platforms, performing trusted automated remediation at scale.

Additional enhancements 

At Red Hat Summit last month, we also introduced several new features coming soon, notably our automation orchestrator, which connects event detection, AI reasoning, and deterministic execution in a unified management plane with a single auditable pipeline. We intentionally built this for every automation user: Platform engineers get a visual workflow designer, automation developers have the API and an MCP server, and AIOps teams can plug agents in directly. Visit our web page to learn more and sign up for updates on this feature.

Try the automation orchestrator demo.

Other features:

• New Red Hat Ansible Certified Content Collections for Windows, Splunk, Cisco, and more.  
• Event-Driven Ansible: In-flight rulebook event persistence, project synchronization, and more. 

Learn more, because automation never stops advancing: 

• Documentation: Ansible Automation Platform 2.7
• Website: What's new with Ansible Automation Platform
• Webinar: What's new with Ansible Automation Platform 2.7 (July 14, 2026)