Red Hat, the provider of open source solutions, has announced the general availability of Ansible Tower 3.1, the latest version of its enterprise-grade, agentless automation platform. Ansible Tower by Red Hat offers automation capabilities that can improve productivity and reduce downtime.
New additions to the latest version of the platform enable enterprises to better scale DevOps automation and offer the ability to link multiple Playbooks into longer, more complex jobs, enhancing productivity across the business.
Ansible Tower by Red Hat internally uses the popular Ansible open source automation project to help teams more effectively manage systems and optimise multi-tier deployments while adding control, security and delegation capabilities. Ansible Tower 3.1 includes several new and enhanced features to help provide greater value to IT teams, including:
● Multi-Playbook workflows that enable users to more easily aggregate multiple existing jobs templates into a single job run.
● Scale-out clustering increases the number of jobs that can be run simultaneously.
● Integration with enterprise logging providers allow for automation results to be indexed, monitored, and acted on as part of enterprise-wide analytics and log aggregation installations.
● Universal search functionality allows users to search and filter throughout Tower by the executing user, job templates by the inventory used, and more.
● Japanese support for the user interface provides for Ansible Tower 3.1 use across the global enterprise.
Tim Cramer, Head of engineering, Ansible, Red Hat said, “DevOps teams look to IT automation to help speed productivity and manage complex deployments. The new workflow functionality in Ansible Tower 3.1 takes those capabilities a step further by helping to make automation even more intuitive. With workflows, users can run separate playbooks in a dependent fashion, including the ability to run different playbooks based on the success or failure of the prior job - further reducing manual process and enabling faster time to market.”
Mary Johnston Turner, Research VP, IDC said, “Open source automation technologies are important in the continued successful evolution and adoption of DevOps within enterprise IT. Beyond just providing automation tools, these technologies help collaborative development and operations teams to cut through the complexities of configuring and optimising modern computing environments. Ansible Tower 3.1 addresses these priorities by automating complex workstreams and making it easier for a wide range of developer and IT operations teams to apply automation to their day to day roles.”
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