Everything automation: Top automation focused blogs of 2023

2023 was a year brimming with exciting developments in automation, but one theme stands out in a year of automation advancements: innovation. From the launch of event-driven automation to the infusion of AI into automated processes and everything in between, here's your comprehensive source to catch up on all the highlights of an exemplary year in automation innovation.

Check out this year’s compilation of automation and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform related blogs to catch up on things you may have missed or refresh your memory on just how far we’ve come since 2022! 

• Getting started with Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed with IBM watsonx Code Assistant by Anshul Behl. Learn how to inject generative AI into your Ansible environment with this step-by-step guide that walks you through the process and capabilities of Ansible Lightspeed.
• Delivering highly resilient IT operations with event driven automation by Cindy Russell. Experiencing challenges with Day 2 operations? Event-driven automation might be the answer.
• Announcing Containerized Ansible Automation Platform by Phil Griffiths. A quick tech preview of containerized Ansible Automation Platform.
• The importance of automating the hybrid cloud by Massimo Ferrari. Learn about our automation initiative to better support automation use cases across public cloud, private cloud, and cloud native infrastructures.
• From good to great: Unleashing the potential of Red Hat Enterprise Linux’s standard operating environment with best practices by Jerone Young. Delve into some of the key principles that can help organizations unlock the full potential of their Red Hat Enterprise Linux standard operating environment.
• Using Kerberos for Windows in Ansible Automation Platform 2 by Patrick Harrison. After a number of years allowing Ansible users the option to authenticate using Kerberos, we revisit the subject to dive into how to configure and troubleshoot Kerberos authentication in Ansible Automation Platform 2.
• Accelerating your network automation journey with Ansible network validated content by Dafne Mendoza. Red Hat has developed and supports more than 139 Red Hat Ansible Certified Content Collections with our partners so, you can rely on a rich and trusted ecosystem of integrations to extend your automation capabilities.
• 5 use cases for automating your infrastructure with Ansible Automation Platform by Tricia McConnell. Discover five critical infrastructure automation use cases using Ansible Automation Platform to provision, configure, migrate, remediate, and more. With videos, too! (why read when you can watch?)
• Providing Terraform with that Ansible Magic by Nuno Martins. Read how the Red Hat Ansible Certified Content Collection for Terraform leverages Terraform’s infrastructure as code provisioning and Ansible’s strength in configuration as code, making this combo even more irresistible than before.
• Ansible and ChatGPT: Putting it to the test by Craig Brandt. This blog puts ChatGPT to the test by asking it to write Ansible Playbooks and determine whether or not generic generative AI is a trustworthy automation sidekick.

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