The shift from Chef to Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform has become a strategic choice for many organizations seeking simplicity, scalability and ease of use for configuration management and automation tools. This article explores the process of converting Chef cookbooks into Ansible Playbooks, providing insights and guidance for a smooth and efficient transition.Understanding the differencesChef and Ansible Automation Platform, while both prominent tools share the common goal of automating infrastructure tasks, they differ in their approaches to configuration management and exhibit distinct ..read more

How often do we see a news story about a data breach or system outage caused by human error or some type of exploit by an external entity? If you work in IT for the affected company, the direct and indirect impacts can be significant, and this level of impact is echoed across the IT industry. Let’s consider a few data points: Splunk’s 2023 state of security report indicates that the sophistication of attacks is the top challenge facing 38% of the survey’s respondents, and 28% are trapped in a reactive response mode due to high workload demands. IBM’s 2023 cost of a security breach rep ..read more

Modern life is leading to a permanent state of online connectivity. If you’re reading this article from your cell phone, you already used AI. And it feels almost natural that as soon as you wake up, you open social media and answer messages. You might be checking emails while eating breakfast, and while you are driving to school or work, you may be listening to podcasts or Spotify. Once you connect to your computer you will enter into enterprise applications and services, including desktop applications that could be hosted as cloud services.It’s all fun and joy, until you get a message lik ..read more

AnsibleFest 2024 is coming up in Denver, Colorado, from May 6 - 9, 2024. As we did last year, AnsibleFest is co-located with Red Hat Summit – giving attendees a chance to explore the broader Red Hat portfolio all in a single city and event! If you are an outdoor enthusiast, Colorado has much to offer, and even if you will just be attending the conference, the mountain views from around the city of Denver are spectacular. The event itself offers a series of learning and professional networking opportunities, so let’s explore them.Seven key ways to enhance your agenda for Red Hat Ansible Aut ..read more

We are excited to announce the general availability of Builds for Red Hat OpenShift. Builds enables application developers to build container images for their applications using popular tools in the Kubernete ecosystem. Builds for OpenShift is based on the open source Shipwright project (part of the CD Foundation) and provides a Kubernetes-native API for declaring and running image builds that run on-demand on the cluster and produce images that are then pushed to an image registry.In the early days of Kubernetes, deploying applications necessitated developers to craft Dockerfiles and produce ..read more

There’s no denying that Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform has had your back when you needed it most. It reduced your frustrations, time and steps needed to finish your day-to-day tasks right, the first time. Although it’s easy for you to see the benefits automation has made for your daily work items, what if it could be extended to the rest of your team or adjacent teams? We know it might be difficult for you to show others (decision makers or management) how your team could start automating at the same rate that you are. Here’s where your automation opportunity presents itself; if you ..read more

In the ever-evolving landscape of cloud computing, efficient infrastructure management is critical. Google Cloud (GC) is a pioneer in providing robust cloud services. However, continuous management of resources, configurations, and day-two operations can be a significant challenge. Here's where the new Ansible validated content collection for Google Cloud, cloud.gcp_ops — a curated suite of Ansible roles and playbooks designed specifically for streamlined GC resource management.This blog post is your guide to not only simplifying the provisioning and setup, but also automating the day two op ..read more

It is no surprise to anyone that IT is a complex world across both development and operations. As a result, many organizations have adopted some level of automation to handle everything from “point tasks” that make a single team member’s job easier… all the way up to full cross-domain workflow automation, such as deploying a cloud application to production. The goals are often speed, efficiency, consistency and accuracy in managing the necessary IT services. Automation typically results in “hours to minutes” time savings benefits, and the more jobs you automate –as well as the mo ..read more

What is Ansible Lightspeed?Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed, armed with the formidable watsonx Code Assistant, leverages generative artificial intelligence (AI) to transform user prompts into code recommendations built on Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform best practices. Merging the realms of AI and Information Technology (IT), Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed can be used to enhance the productivity of automation developers and extend trust in the automation codebase.Leveling up the code with Red Hat’s Secure Development LifecycleRed Hat’s Secure Development Lifecycle (RH-SDL) focuses on software de ..read more

In today’s fast-paced, highly competitive world that is driven from “digital business”, organizations are being asked to do more with less. At the same time, key applications and IT services are more critical than ever and so must be up and running to drive revenue, productivity and more. To be able to be successful and not succumb to the Day 2 operational pressures you face, the need to automate is clear. By incorporating Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform as the common automation solution, at enterprise scale, organizations have begun to realize benefits, including a reduction of manu ..read more