What’s new in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2?

What’s new in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2?

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2

The key to automating at scale is collaboration across the entire IT organization. That’s why Red Hat? Ansible? Automation Platform 2 is built to deliver a consistent, connected experience.

This is an interactive guide of what you’ll find in Ansible Automation Platform 2. To get started, choose the automation role that best matches your day-to-day experience.

I'm an automation architect

  • I lead and evangelize automation in my organization
  • I am responsible for Automation strategy?
  • I have a say in choosing the automation tooling my organization uses.

I am?an automation administer

  • ?I install, configure, and matins the automation platform for my organization.
  • I give users access via RBAC.
  • I am responsible for allowing integration with different internal/external tools.

I'm an automation creator

  • I write Ansible Playbooks and roles
  • I maintain all my automation as code in source control.
  • I work mostly on the command line and leverage developer tools such as VSCode.

I am an automation operator

  • I apply the automation content by developer/creator to the project I am working on.
  • I utilize the automation platform provided by the platform administrator.
  • I build and maintain workflow and inventories to automate.

You’re an automation architect. What you can expect from Ansible Automation Platform 2 ?

Automation execution environments

+ Ansible Automation Platform 2 adds enhanced automation execution environments (formerly Ansible Engine) to allow teams to package Ansible into a containerized environment for a defined, standardized, and portable set of automation resources to execute automation wherever it is needed.?

Automation controller?

+ Your new control plane is the automation controller, formerly Ansible Tower. It includes a user interface (UI), representational state transfer (REST) application programming interface (API), role-based access control (RBAC), workflows, and continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/ CD) for helping your team scale.??

Automation mesh

+ Automation mesh helps connect disparate automation components together, while providing status checks on automation environments across the IT estate.

Ansible Content Collections?

+ Ansible Content Collections helps Ansible content creators and developers get automation up and running faster. Certified Ansible Content Collections are backed by both Red Hat and a robust partner ecosystem. They are trusted, flexible automation content building blocks for a variety of use cases.?

You’re an automation administrator. What you can expect from Ansible Automation Platform 2 ?

Automation controller

+ Your new control plane is Ansible Automation Platform the automation controller, formerly Ansible Tower. It includes a UI, REST, RBAC, workflows, and CI/CD for helping your team scale.?

Automation mesh

+ Automation mesh helps connect disparate automation components together, while providing status checks on automation environments across the IT estate.

Automation hub?

+ The automation hub provides a place for Ansible Automation Platform customers to quickly find and use content that is supported by Red Hat and our technology partners, for additional reassurance for the most demanding environments. Private automation hub is also available, which offers customers a container image repository of their execution environments.??

Red Hat Insights for Red Hat

+ Your new control plane is Ansible Automation Platform.

+ With the integration of Insights for Ansible Automation Platform, you now have rich management and analytics tools to help you identify, troubleshoot, and resolve issues faster.?

You’re an automation creator. What you can expect from Ansible Automation Platform 2 ?

Automation execution environments?

+ Automation execution environments, formerly called Ansible Engine, are the key to Ansible Automation Platform’s new architecture.

Ansible content tools

+ We’re also introducing new Ansible content tools, which are designed to make building and deploying execution environments a better experience

Ansible Content Collections

+ Get a jumpstart on your automation creation with Ansible Content Collections. Your Ansible Automation Platform 2 subscription includes access to more than 100 certified collections comprising more than 40,000 modules.

Automation hub

+ This is where you’ll find automation content to use, get inspiration for what’s possible, and store and share custom content you’ve created

You’re an automation operator. What you can expect from Ansible Automation Platform 2 ?

Automation controller

+ Your new control plane is the automation controller, the Ansible Automation Platform component replacing Ansible Tower. It includes a UI, REST, RBAC, workflows, and CI/CD for helping your team scale.??

Automation services catalog

+ Automation services catalog is a venue for users to manage, provision, and retire automation resources, simplifying modeling and delivery

Automation hub

+ The automation hub provides a place for Ansible Automation Platform customers to quickly find and use content that is supported by Red Hat and our technology partners, for additional reassurance for the most demanding environments. Private automation hub is also available, which offers customers a container image repository of their execution environments.?

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Automation execution environments


An execution environment contains:

  • UBI 8 as a base operating system.
  • Ansible-core (the core automation language).
  • Python 3.8.
  • Any number of Ansible Content Collections, and their dependencies (if applicable).

Packaged as containers, automation execution environments (formerly Ansible Engine) are defined, consistent, and portable environments for executing Ansible Playbooks and roles. Execution environments offer a simple, flexible way to build, reuse, and scale automation content.

Automation execution environments let automation teams have standardized, portable, and maintainable environments for wherever automation is needed, allowing teams to focus on what they automate rather than maintaining the environments where they automate

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Automation controller


The control plane for Ansible Automation Platform is called automation controller (formerly Ansible Tower). It includes a UI, RBAC, workflows, and CI/CD for helping your team scale. Manage inventory, launch and schedule workflows, track changes, and integrate into reporting, all from a centralized user interface and REST API.

Architecture

  • Decentralized, modular application
  • Decoupled control and execution plane
  • Execution environments

WebUI

  • Refactored to PatternFly 4.0
  • Increased performance
  • Job output filters
  • Distinct “edit” and “read” views
  • Stricter content security policy

PostgreSQL 12

  • Installed from Red Hat Enterprise Linux? modules
  • Partitioned access and increased performance

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Automation mesh



Automation mesh is an overlay network that simplifies scaling and distributing execution capacity across a large and dispersed collection of nodes, bringing automation closer to the endpoints that need it. Automation mesh enables independent scaling of control and execution plane capacity, flexible and fault-tolerant design options, with resilience to high latency and connection disruptions.

Security features

  • Access Control Lists (ACL)
  • TLS authentication and encryption
  • Centralized management in automation controller
  • FIPS compliant encryption

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Ansible Content Collections



An Ansible Content Collection, or “collection,” is a format for organizing content independent of the main github.com/ansible/ansible development branch. In simple terms: it’s a directory structure and the complementary tooling within Ansible Automation Platform to use content from that structure. This new structure accommodates multiple types of content, such as modules, plugins, roles, and others, in a singular portable format.

An Ansible Automation Platform subscription provides access to more than 100 certified content collections comprised of over 40,000 modules curated for consistent, compliant delivery. These collections are available through the automation hub.

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Automation hub Private .



Automation hub provides a place for Ansible Automation Platform subscribers to quickly find and use content that is supported by Red Hat and our technology partners, delivering additional reassurance for the most demanding environments. Automation hub is available as both a hosted service and privately on-premise—customers can sync certified Ansible content repositories to an on-premise private automation hub or download directly from console.redhat.com.??

Automation hub:

Execution environments are container images, so to use them in production, you’ll need a container registry. We’ve enhanced the private automation hub to host container images so it can host execution environments for customers who have not yet moved to container-native development and are not currently using a platform, such as Red Hat OpenShift.

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Red Hat Insights for Red Hat



Ansible Automation Platform Red Hat Insights for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is a suite of reporting and analytics tools to identify, troubleshoot, and resolve operational, business, and security issues across your entire ecosystem. Gain full visibility into the ROI of your automation efforts, and set the stage for faster, more informed decisions

Features:

  • Job status and module usage
  • Remediation guidance
  • Automation planner and calculator
  • Proactive alerts and notifications
  • Drift management

Enroll - DO374

Developing Advanced Automation with Red?Hat Ansible Automation Platform

Developing Advanced Automation with Red?Hat Ansible Automation Platform (DO374) is designed for Linux system administrators and developers to learn the recommended practices for Ansible and the new, container-focused tools from the Ansible Automation Platform.

Course Objectives

  • Investigating recommended practices for effective and efficient automation with Ansible.
  • Performing rolling updates.
  • Using advanced features of Ansible to work with data, including filters and plug-ins.
  • Creating execution environments to contain and scale Red?Hat Ansible Automation.
  • Leveraging capabilities of automation content navigator to develop Ansible Playbooks.

Audience

  • This course is designed for users who need to create recommended design patterns and operate automation practices at scale, including these roles:
  • DevOps engineers
  • Linux system administrators
  • Other IT professionals with basic expertise using Red?Hat Ansible Automation Platform to automate, provision, configure, and deploy applications and services in a Linux environment

Prerequisites

  • Red?Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) certification on Red?Hat Enterprise Linux?8 (EX294), or equivalent Ansible experience.

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