Red Hat Helps Enterprises Embrace DevOps at Scale with Ansible Tower 3.1

Red Hat Helps Enterprises
Embrace DevOps at Scale with Ansible Tower 3.1

Multi-Playbook workflows,
scale-out clustering, and new search capabilities help further deliver
automation to IT teams

Hong Kong
–  3 March, 2017 – Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s
leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the general
availability of Ansible Tower 3.1, the latest version of its enterprise-grade,
agentless automation platform. Ansible Tower by Red Hat helps enterprises cut
through the complexities of modern IT environments with powerful automation
capabilities that can improve productivity and reduce downtime. New additions
to the latest version of the platform enable enterprises to better scale DevOps
automation and offer the ability to link multiple Playbooks into longer, more
complex jobs, enhancing productivity across the business.

Ansible
Tower by Red Hat internally uses the popular Ansible open source automation
project to help teams more effectively manage systems and optimize multi-tier
deployments while adding control, security and delegation capabilities. Ansible
Tower 3.1 includes several new and enhanced features to help provide greater
value to IT teams, including:

●    
Multi-Playbook workflows enable users to more
easily string together multiple existing jobs templates into a single job run –
without the need to create additional Playbooks. Powerful workflows can be
designed complete with decision points, logic branches, and integrated
notifications to fully orchestrate the application lifecycle.

●    
Scale-out clustering increases the number of jobs that can be run
simultaneously.

●    
A more streamlined job details page provides more applicable
information that can be understood and used by a wider audience across the
enterprise. The job details page now provides job output searching, and formats
the data for easier reading and analyzing without having to leave the Tower
user interface.

●    
Integration with enterprise logging providers allow
for automation results to be indexed, monitored, and acted on as part of enterprise-wide
analytics and log aggregation installations.

●    
Universal search functionality allows users to search and
filter throughout Tower by the executing user, job templates by the inventory
used, and more.

●    
User interface localized for two new languages, Japanese
and French. The translated interface provides for Ansible Tower 3.1 use across
the global enterprise.

Availability

Ansible
Tower 3.1 by Red Hat is available now through the Red Hat Customer Portal.

Supporting
Quotes

Tim
Cramer, head of engineering, Ansible, Red Hat

“DevOps
teams look to IT automation to help speed productivity and manage complex
deployments. The new workflow functionality in Ansible Tower 3.1 takes those
capabilities a step further by helping to make automation even more intuitive.
With workflows, users can run separate playbooks in a dependent fashion,
including the ability to run different playbooks based on the success or
failure of the prior job – further reducing manual process and enabling faster time
to market.”

Mary
Johnston Turner, research vice president, IDC

“Open
source automation technologies are important in the continued successful
evolution and adoption of DevOps within enterprise IT. Beyond just providing
automation tools, these technologies help collaborative development and
operations teams to cut through the complexities of configuring and optimizing
modern computing environments. Ansible Tower 3.1 addresses these priorities by
automating complex workstreams and making it easier for a wide range of
developer and IT operations teams to apply automation to their day to day
roles.”