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We are excited to announce that Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 is now generally available.

Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 is designed to make it easier than ever to create, deploy, and scale mission-critical IT automation workflows across the enterprise. With a reimagined platform experience, new capabilities, and key performance enhancements, this release is designed to help customers accelerate adoption, take on new use cases, and get more strategic value out of their automation initiatives.  So, let’s dive in and talk about what’s new!

 

A Reimagined Platform Experience

With the release of Ansible Automation Platform 2.5, we are introducing a new interface that delivers an improved experience for operators, developers and platform administrators. The unified UI provides a consistent and centralized WebUI, API, authentication, authorization and role based access controls (RBAC). Within the unified UI, users will also be able to utilize reporting at scale with automation analytics, which includes automation calculator - a report on your ROI with Ansible Automation Platform. 

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Figure: Ansible Automation Platform unified UI

As a part of this improved platform experience, a new feature will be available that we refer to as   quick starts. These quick starts are new interactive, step-by-step guides for getting started quickly with key Ansible Automation Platform tasks and features. This will enable new users in your organization to learn how to use the Ansible Automation Platform.

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Figure: Ansible quick starts

 

Integrated developer tooling and generative AI (GenAI) capabilities

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Figure: Ansible content creator view in VS Code

Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed with IBM watsonX Code Assistant has new capabilities and features that expand the impact of GenAI on the Ansible experience including:

  • Generation of a full Ansible Playbook with a simple text prompt
  • Guided chat interface for maximum ease of use
  • On-the-fly prompt refinement for better contextual clarity and correctness
  • Playbook explanation to help users understand the logic and structure of new and existing playbooks.

Ansible Lightspeed is now also available for on-prem deployment for disconnected/regulated environments and will include authentication support for workstation, dev container, and Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces. We have also made it easier for your teams to gauge the value of Ansible Lightspeed with a one-click 90 day trial experience.

The Ansible development tools package included with the platform has fresh updates designed to help developers work more efficiently. Ansible development tools are a comprehensive suite of enterprise-grade automation development capabilities that are curated and supported to make it easier for automation developers to create, test, and deploy Ansible content. These tools integrate easily into existing workflows, enabling more experienced content creators to write Ansible content quickly and accurately.

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Tools for orchestrating across the enterprise

Continue to advance your automation with the ability to automatically respond to changing IT conditions with Event-Driven Ansible. As a part of the 2.5 release is the introduction of event streams, a new feature for Event-Driven Ansible. This new feature will simplify how event routing works to get events from their source to your rulebooks.

Event streams enable:

  • Webhook-based sources, automatically routed to one or many configured rulebook activations.
  • Event-Driven Ansible to handle delivery of events to horizontally scaled rulebook activations. 
  • Event-Driven Ansible to receive events from even more sources. Any system that can emit webhooks (GitHub, Service-Now, GitLab, etc.) can now directly send events for Ansible Automation Platform to process.

Event-Driven Ansible will also have enterprise enhancements including high availability and scalability, credential management, and RBAC + SSO. Customers who aren’t ready to upgrade their existing Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 deployments can still take advantage of the new Event-Driven Ansible capabilities by linking a new Event-Driven Ansible 2.5 deployment with their Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 environment. 

 

Getting Started with Ansible Automation Platform 2.5

Ready to get started using Ansible Automation Platform 2.5? Decide which option is best for you.

Option 1  | Fresh on-prem install New customer or deployment? Download Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 from the Red Hat Customer Portal and get started today.

Option 2  |  Ansible on cloud deployments Prefer to self-manage your automation platform in the cloud, deploy with managed cloud offerings, or take advantage of committed cloud spend agreements? Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 is available on Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud Platform.

Option 3  |  Upgrade from Ansible Automation Platform 2.4. Customers will need to be on the latest version of Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 to upgrade to 2.5. Detailed instructions and a full migration path will be published later in October.

In this release, Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 will introduce Red Hat-tested deployment topologies in both documentation and deployment inventories. These topologies are reference deployment architectures that are known to perform on the hardware tested and within specific workload parameters. These inventories will make it even faster to get started with Ansible Automation Platform - drop in your infrastructure information and run the setup, then Ansible Automation Platform will run. The topologies and inventory files will be expanded over time to align with different models of deploying Ansible Automation Platform across CPU architectures, redundancy requirements, networking layouts, and more.

Once Ansible Automation Platform is deployed, you can use the Ansible validated content available in Ansible automation hub. Validated content will help you kickstart ideas on new automation and make it faster to build automation in a variety of areas. Some examples include:

  • Improved configuration as code capabilities for Ansible Automation Platform
  • Infrastructure and OS technologies like VMware vSphere and Microsoft Windows Server
  • Hyperscalers like AWS and Microsoft Azure
  • Network operations such as ACLs, BGP, interfaces, BGP, OSPF and VLANs management

Key things to note:

  • Customers that aren’t yet ready to upgrade their existing Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 deployments can take advantage of new Event-Driven Ansible capabilities today by linking a new Event-Driven Ansible 2.5 deployment with their Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 environment. 
  • Once upgrades from 2.4 are available, users will be able to authenticate using their credentials from individual services.
  • Once upgrades from 2.4 are available, users will have the ability to merge their accounts together once they log in for the first time
  • Once upgrades from 2.4 are available, Services API will still be available but will eventually be deprecated later in 2.5.

 

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Elle is a Product Marketing Manager at Red Hat, working on the Ansible team since 2019. As a part of the Ansible product marketing team, she focuses on Ansible Automation Platform awareness and messaging to help fuel business growth.

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