{"id":5173,"date":"2016-01-18T12:06:45","date_gmt":"2016-01-18T12:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/?p=5173"},"modified":"2016-01-18T12:06:45","modified_gmt":"2016-01-18T12:06:45","slug":"red-hat-releases-open-source-it-automation-ansible-2-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/2016\/01\/18\/red-hat-releases-open-source-it-automation-ansible-2-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Hat releases open source IT automation Ansible 2.0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Red Hat has announced the general availability of <a href=\"http:\/\/media.ne.cision.com\/l\/thnxzdwr\/www.ansible.com\/blog\/ansible-2.0-launch\"><span class=\"s2\">Ansible 2.0<\/span><\/a>. This new release of the leading simple, agentless, and powerful open source IT automation framework brings increased stability, new automation capabilities, and new integrations with a variety of services and providers, broadening support for public, private, and hybrid cloud deployments, and expanding Ansible\u2019s footprint into Microsoft Windows environments and network management.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Ansible is designed to enable developer and operators in IT organisations to quickly learn and deploy the software, empowering them to break down barriers between IT teams by automating routine activities. Ansible 2.0 makes getting started with Ansible easier than ever with the following improvements:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">Task blocks enable easier development of playbooks and tasks, and additionally provide the option to integrate exception handling and recovery;<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">A refined playbook parser provides clearer identification of errors and provides suggested fixes;<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">New execution modes provide users with ways to increase the speed of deployments across many machines;<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">Increased flexibility in tasks facilitates easier reuse of automation content across a variety of environments and contexts; and<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">Logging playbook information to services such as chat, email, or log aggregators can be easily configured through newly included plugins.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Automation through community-powered innovation<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">With 2,000 contributors to its repositories on<a href=\"https:\/\/wpyadmin.ne.cision.com\/l\/thnxzdwr\/github.com\/ansible\/ansible\"><span class=\"s2\"> GitHub<\/span><\/a>, and more than 200 new contributors to the Ansible 2.0 release alone since the last release, Ansible benefits from a worldwide community of developers and users with diverse environments and use cases &#8212; their participation and feedback enables Ansible to accommodate requirements from nearly any IT organisation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The modularity of Ansible\u2019s code base, combined with ease of contribution, allows Ansible to manage today\u2019s infrastructure, but also rapidly adapt to new IT needs and integrate emerging technologies created by contributors to the Ansible community. Ansible 2.0 includes nearly 200 new modules spanning the public, private and hybrid cloud that accommodate for containers, networking, Windows &#8211;\u00a0 empowering users to automate more things than ever before.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">New module addition highlights include:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">A completely new set of modules for managing OpenStack, the leading open source cloud computing framework, developed in concert with the OpenStack community;<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">30 new modules for improving and expanding the support for Amazon Web Services;<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">Greatly expanded support for configuring and managing VMware environments;<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">Expanded support for managing Microsoft Windows environments;<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">Substantial improvements to the Docker module and new Docker connection plugin; and<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">Improved support for network automation.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Availability<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Ansible 2.0 is now available via<a href=\"https:\/\/wpyadmin.ne.cision.com\/l\/thnxzdwr\/github.com\/ansible\/ansible\"><span class=\"s2\"> GitHub<\/span><\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/wpyadmin.ne.cision.com\/l\/thnxzdwr\/pypi.python.org\/pypi\/ansible\"><span class=\"s2\"> PyPi<\/span><\/a>, and package manager for most major Linux distributions. For users seeking more control, security, and delegation for their Ansible deployments, <a href=\"http:\/\/media.ne.cision.com\/l\/thnxzdwr\/www.ansible.com\/tower\"><span class=\"s2\">Ansible Tower<\/span><\/a> is available via subscription tiers suitable for everyone from small companies to full-scale, mission-critical enterprise devops teams.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Red Hat has announced the general availability of Ansible 2.0. 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