We are pleased to announce an updated version of Event-Driven Ansible as part of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5!This release includes expanded enterprise capabilities that can help you gain more operational ease from Event-Driven Ansible. Whether you are ready for advanced event-driven use cases that take into account multiple sources of events, want to advance your Event-Driven Ansible testing efforts into production, or want highly scalable and available Ansible Rulebook operations, this new version has you covered. Let’s dig into the details of these exciting new features: Event ..read more

We are excited to announce that Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 is now generally available.Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 is designed to make it easier than ever to create, deploy, and scale mission-critical IT automation workflows across the enterprise. With a reimagined platform experience, new capabilities, and key performance enhancements, this release is designed to help customers accelerate adoption, take on new use cases, and get more strategic value out of their automation initiatives. So, let’s dive in and talk about what’s new! A Reimagined Platform ExperienceWith the r ..read more

In today's complex IT environments, system failures can occur unexpectedly, often due to failed updates or conflicts with third-party software. These issues can lead to significant downtime and productivity loss, especially in Windows environments where Blue Screen of Death (BSoD) scenarios can render systems inoperable. As IT professionals, we're constantly seeking flexible, scalable approaches to quickly recover from such failures across diverse infrastructure landscapes.The Ansible Windows Automated System Recovery (including 0-Day BSoD) project offers an inspiring framework for addressing ..read more

Every solution starts with sharing a problem. At Red Hat, when we talk about the open source way, we're talking about a proven way of collaborating to create technology. The freedom to see the code, learn from it, to ask questions, and offer improvements. Of course, applying this idea to an organization that needs to align and collaborate around a technology like automation is often easier said than done.What is an automation community of practice?An automation community of practice is a collection of individuals (automation engineers, network operators, automation developers, automation archi ..read more

The rise of Red Hat OpenShift has led organizations to adopt a centralized hub cluster model for automating their entire IT operations. This hub cluster, typically placed in a management segment, hosts centralized components like Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes, and Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes.The increasing adoption of Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization presents a need for automated solutions for virtual machine (VM) Day-1 and Day-2 activities. A centralized Ansible Automation Platform model within the hub cluster empo ..read more

Unlock new possibilities across the hybrid cloud with a comprehensive application platformApplication transformation opens up innovative opportunities for organizations. While you may be focused on building new applications, it’s crucial to have a platform that not only supports these new developments but also more seamlessly integrates with your traditional workloads. To achieve this, teams need the right platform with the right tools and services to manage, build and deploy applications across all environments—whether on-premises, across multiple clouds or at the edge.Red Hat OpenShift e ..read more

The impact of recent virtual machine (VM) pricing changes has drastically increased the cost of virtualization, creating uncertainty and risks for many businesses. Inherent vendor lock-in has created critical IT dependency and interoperability issues, where the over-reliance on proprietary IT tools has stifled new use case adoption—use cases like AI that are bringing more, new workloads into existing virtualization infrastructure.But migrating from traditional virtualization platforms and modernizing the virtualization architecture for continuous innovation and efficiency needs a deliberate ..read more

In our previous article we discussed what a nightmare a sprawl of service tickets can be—placing a huge strain on operations teams and preventing staff from being able to innovate or advance the organization’s business goals because they are so busy responding to failures. As an organization expands its customer base and global reach and enhances its digital offerings and services, it also increases the need for staff to manage a growing number of platforms and resolve any incidents that arise in the environment. Managing these environments manually is time-consuming and error-prone, and d ..read more

Automation has enabled and empowered a generational shift in the technology industry, and has delivered more reliable, dynamic systems with faster change rates than were previously thought possible.At the same time, these change rates pose new challenges for keeping track of assets and states. Many organizations have explicit audit obligations and separation of duties requirements, and it makes sense for them to have a centralized workflow and asset tracking system to help meet these requirements.There are immense benefits to enabling integrations between automation systems and these centraliz ..read more

Every support team has nightmares about a barrage of tickets coming through in the middle of the night. The on-call sysadmin wakes up to a storm of red flags from users across the globe and spends the rest of the night manually remediating hundreds of service interruptions impacting customers in other time zones.Automate intelligent IT operations e-bookImagine you could resolve issues before customers notice them—pinpointing the root cause of performance problems and remediating them in real time without having to expend IT labor addressing each incident. Red Hat and Dynatrace’s joint solu ..read more