Red Hat today revealed it is extending the reach of its Ansible Automation Platform for IT operations to artificial intelligence (AI) agents, in addition to making it simpler to build AI agents using existing application development tools. Announced at the Red Hat Summit conference, version 2.7 of the Ansible Automation Platform adds a technology preview […]
How to Eliminate DevOps Toil Using Automation Scripts
Engineering teams spend nearly 15 hours a week on repetitive DevOps toils that drain productivity. This guide explains how to identify high-impact automation opportunities, apply the 15-minute rule, and build sustainable script-based solutions that eliminate toil and free teams for innovation.
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Ansible Automating Build Environment Setup for Windows and Linux
This post is a guide on how to use Ansible to automate infrastructure setup on any Windows or Linux build machine.
Red Hat Previews Series of Updates to Ansible Automation Platform
Red Hat today at AnsibleFest 2025 previewed support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP) developed by Anthropic within Ansible Lightspeed, a set of generative artificial intelligence capabilities based on large language models (LLMs) specifically trained by Red Hat and IBM to automate IT tasks. Any LLM or associated AI agent will soon be able to invoke […]
IBM Applies Generative AI to Ansible Playbooks
IBM extended the reach of the generative AI tools it provides to automate the writing of code to the Ansible IT automation framework.
Red Hat Adds Generative AI and Event-Driven Capabilities to Ansible
Red Hat today unveiled a technical preview of Ansible Lightspeed with IBM Watson Code Assistant, a generative artificial intelligence (AI) service specifically trained on domain-specific data collected via the Ansible automation platform. At the same time, Red Hat is also making available an event-driven capability within version 2.4 of the Ansible platform that enables runbooks […]
Things We Should Acknowledge, Part Two: Skills Are Less Relevant
This is perhaps the toughest issue for all of us to acknowledge: The longer you are in the space, the more skills you have filled out on LinkedIn (or wherever you are tracking your career for HR reps to look at) but the skills you possess today are, by definition, a subset of the skills […]
Red Hat Brings Ansible Automation to Google Cloud
Red Hat today announced that the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is now available on Google Cloud to simplify the management of yet another cloud platform. Using the Ansible Automation Platform, it’s now possible for IT teams that invoke Google Cloud to access pre-integrated services such as Google Virtual Private Cloud, security groups, load balancers […]
Red Hat and IBM Pledge to Bring NLP to Ansible
At the Ansiblefest 2022 conference today, Red Hat and its parent company IBM announced the Project Wisdom initiative to bring natural language processing (NLP) to the open source Ansible IT operations automation platform. At the same time, Red Hat announced that the curated instances of Ansible from Red Hat are now available in the marketplaces […]
Red Hat Adds Managed Ansible Service on Azure
Red Hat today announced general availability of a managed instance of the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform on the Microsoft Azure cloud. Announced at the Red Hat Summit 2022 event, this offering makes it possible to deploy the control plane for Ansible on the Microsoft Azure cloud as an alternative to existing support for Amazon […]
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