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NEW CLOUD , NETWORK AND WINDOWS CAPABILITIES CAN DRIVE END-TO- END AUTOMATION THROUGHOUT THE ENTERPRISE . assignment and retirement process without human intervention . Additionally , the Infoblox support enables users deploying systems across multiple clouds , as well as virtualisation platforms to more effectively automate their IP address management next to their application deployments .
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more simply through updated modules covering Amazon Web Services ( AWS ), Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure . The public cloud modules add capabilities designed to match the latest functionality available in the respective cloud environments . Additionally , an improved AWS EC2 Instance module can provide a more streamlined user experience when provisioning new and managing existing EC2-backed instances . When users provision their cloud infrastructure with Ansible Engine , creating , managing and administering deployments on an ongoing basis is done through a single tool – helping to meet policies regardless of cloud provider .
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NEW CLOUD , NETWORK AND WINDOWS CAPABILITIES CAN DRIVE END-TO- END AUTOMATION THROUGHOUT THE ENTERPRISE . assignment and retirement process without human intervention . Additionally , the Infoblox support enables users deploying systems across multiple clouds , as well as virtualisation platforms to more effectively automate their IP address management next to their application deployments .
Simplified Windows automation
Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.6 extends Ansible ’ s capabilities for automating Windows environments with new features and enhancements for managing computers and active directory , scheduling tasks , and better error handling .
Improved extensibility
Additionally , with the new capabilities in Ansible Engine 2.6 , users can now more easily and programmatically extend Ansible in their environments with new plugins for Red Hat OpenStack Platform , Red Hat Satellite , Red Hat Virtualization , Amazon EC2 , Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure . This enhancement is designed to streamline how Ansible calls inventories and receives data back , helping to make inventory modules easier to maintain and upgrade .
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Joe Fitzgerald , Vice President , Management , Red Hat
This release also extends the support for VMware vSphere-deployed infrastructure , including VMware Cloud on AWS , enabling users to use automation across the hybrid cloud including legacy infrastructure . Additionally , the new VMware modules improve support for tags , fact gathering and host management . The modules also extend automation beyond the operating system layer to enable automated application lifecycles on these infrastructure deployments .
Enhanced networking capabilities
Red Hat Ansible Network Automation 2.6 delivers new vendor agnostic modules that provide users with a common language . Previously , network managers learned vendorspecific commands , which could be both time consuming and create additional complexity . Through new networking modules available in Ansible 2.6 , a single language can be used across multiple network environments , including Juniper and Cisco . Additionally , new connection mechanisms available in Ansible Engine 2.6 help simplify management connections to network devices .
In addition , Ansible now offers support for Infoblox , including a collection of critical network services ( DHCP , DNS , and IPAM ), collectively known as DDI . The fully-supported Infoblox modules available in Ansible Engine 2.6 enable customers to more easily automate the IP address selection , reservation ,
In addition to Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.6 , Red Hat also recently launched a new version of its Ansible Galaxy service , a public-facing hub for community and partner-generated Ansible Roles to make it easier to find and share Ansible content . The latest version features an improved user interface , modernised code base and new containerised infrastructure provided by Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated . This release also adds support for OpenShift Ansible Broker content to define and distribute multicontainer services on Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated using the greater simplicity and power of Ansible Automation .
“ The latest version of Red Hat Ansible Engine builds on our strategy to help users extend automation across their public , private and hybrid clouds ,” said Joe Fitzgerald , Vice President , Management , Red Hat .
“ New cloud , network and Windows capabilities can drive end-to-end automation throughout the enterprise .” •
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