What’s New in the Ansible Content Collection for Kubernetes 2.3

With increased adoption of container automation, IT organizations continue to expand their requirements when it comes to deploying and managing their Kubernetes clusters. As such, we at Red Hat continue to add new features and capabilities to meet those demands by announcing the availability of kubernetes.core version 2.3, our Red Hat Ansible Certified Content Collection for Kubernetes and Helm.

In this blog post, we’ll go over what’s new and what’s different in this release of our Kubernetes Collection. 

New Module - k8s_taint

With the release of kubernetes.core 2.3, we introduce the k8s_taint module. This module provides the ability for a Kuberentes node to repel a pod or set of pods from being scheduled unless they have a matching toleration. This establishes that with taints and tolerations in place, pods are not scheduled onto inappropriate nodes.

This feature is quite useful when you are trying to ensure exclusivity of a particular set of nodes (only allow a particular group of users access) or you want to provide particular nodes with special hardware (such as GPUs) to only run pods that require the use of the specialized hardware and keep out the pods that don’t require Continue reading

New reference architecture: Deploying Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.1

With the release of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.1, we are proud to deliver the latest reference architecture on the best practices for deploying a highly available Ansible Automation Platform environment. 

This reference architecture focuses on providing a step-by-step deployment procedure to install and configure a highly available Ansible Automation Platform environment from start to finish.

But there’s more!

Aside from the key steps to install Ansible Automation Platform, it incorporates key building blocks to optimize your Ansible Automation Platform environments, including:

• Centralized logging across multiple Ansible Automation Platform environments.
  
  
• Securing installation inventory passwords using ansible-vault.
  
  
• Using a combination of GitOps practices (configuration as code capabilities) and Git webhooks to streamline the automation and delivery of configurations to multiple Ansible Automation Platform sites automatically, immediately and consistently. 

What are the foundational pieces to this reference architecture?

The reference architecture consists of two environments of Ansible Automation Platform: Ansible Site 1 and Ansible Site 2 for high availability. Site 1 is an active environment while Site 2 is a passive environment. Each site consists of the following:

• A three node automation controller cluster with one PostgreSQL database.
  
  
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Automation Savings Planner

Pre-plan your automation savings with Red Hat Insights for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

Enterprise organizations understand that to be leaders in their industries, they must change the way they deliver applications, improve their relationships with customers and gain competitive advantages.

Positioning those advantages to have a positive return on investment often starts with proper planning and automation.

But what does proper planning of your automation even look like?

For some enterprises, proper planning includes reducing automation costs. For others, it’s reducing time spent to open new opportunities.

With this in mind, Red Hat is excited to introduce Automation Savings Planner, a new enhancement that puts automation planning in the forefront within the hosted services on console.redhat.com.

The Automation Savings Planner is designed to provide a one stop shop to plan, track and analyze potential efficiency improvements and cost savings of your automation initiatives.

How does it work?

Users can create an automation savings plan within Red Hat Insights for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform by defining how long and often the work is done manually, as well as a list of tasks needed to successfully automate this job.

Once defined, you can integrate your newly Continue reading