Red Hat Ansible Tower wins SIIA CODiE Award

We are excited to share that Red Hat Ansible Tower was awarded a 2018 Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) CODiE Award in the Best DevOps Tool category. The award recognizes the best tools for supporting collaboration between developers and operations. Additionally, we proud to share that Ansible Tower was honored with the Best Overall Business Technology Solution award. This award represents the product with the highest scores of both rounds of judging across all 52 business technology categories.

The SIIA CODiE Awards are the industry's only peer-recognized awards program. Business technology leaders including senior executives, analysts, media, consultants and investors evaluate assigned products during the first-round review which determines the finalists. SIIA members then vote on the finalist products and the scores from both rounds are tabulated to select the winners. Finalists represent the best products, technologies, and services in software, information and business technology.

We would like to thank the Ansible community for their continued support, contributions and excitement for the solution. The community is at the heart of all Ansible products and these awards were made possible because of our tireless community that collaborates everyday to help more people experience the power of automation.

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Don’t miss these Ansible Automation sessions at Red Hat Summit

The countdown is on! It’s just a few short days until Red Hat Summit. I’m Kaete Piccirilli and I do all things Ansible Marketing. While it’s not my first Summit at Red Hat, it’s the first one I’ll be attending, and I cannot be more excited to finally be in the mix of our customers, partners and open source communities.

Ansible Automation Breakout Sessions

Red Hat Summit has an action-packed few days planned, and I have picked a few Ansible Automation sessions that you won’t want to miss.

Managing 15,000 network devices with Ansible

Ansible allows network management across virtually any device platform. Any network device can be managed via SSH or an API. We took this cutting-edge network automation to scale with a customer’s global network infrastructure, giving them the ability to manage nearly all of their network devices at one time.

In this session, we'll discuss the architecture and strategies involved in network automation.

Manage Windows like Linux with Ansible

Few questions induce fear into the heart of a Linux admin more than, "Hey, can you manage these Windows servers?"

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Our Most Popular Blog Posts of 2017

2017 was such a great year for the Ansible team at Red Hat. From launching Ansible Engine to open sourcing Ansible Tower, we’ve had a year to remember. And just in case you missed them, here are our 10 most viewed blog posts of the year to showcase all the fun we’ve had.

1. How to Extend Ansible Through Plugins

Did you know a large portion of Ansible’s functionality comes from the Ansible plugin system? These important pieces of code augment Ansible’s core functionality such as parsing and loading inventory and Playbooks, running Playbooks and reading the results. In this blog, we review each of these plugins and offer a high-level overview on how to write your own plugin to extend Ansible functionality. Read more.

2. Exploring New Networking Features in Ansible 2.3

In 2016, we added the first networking modules to Ansible, since then we’ve added hundreds of modules and many networking vendor platforms have been enabled. This year, our focus on networking enablement turned to increasing performance and adding connection methods that provide compatibility and flexibility. You were eager to learn all about it and made this our second most read blog of the year! Read more.

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Red Hat Ansible Automation recognized with 2017 Editor’s Choice Award from Virtualization & Cloud Review

Each year the contributing editors at Virtualization & Cloud Review roundup products they love, from what they rely on every day to the innovative tech products they're excited to see. This year, enterprise IT watcher and analyst Dan Kusnetzky selected us for our framework, which makes it easier for enterprises to monitor, manage and automate their physical, virtual and cloud resources. Our community also gets a shout out from Dan, noting our 3,000 contributors worldwide. They're a testament to our dedicated community, contributing to the project and enabling the monitoring, management and automation of Windows, Linux and more.

Thank you to our community and Red Hat for driving organizations to transform to automated enterprises. Read about all of the winners here.

Our Most Popular Blog Posts of 2016

2016, what a year. Ansible upgrades galore, Tower 3 was released, a tipping point for DevOps, and much more.

All these themes were reflected in our blog this year. From doing more with automation, working across platforms (think Windows automation), orchestrating containers at scale, to exploring all the great new features in Tower 3, we covered a lot.

Just in case you missed them, here are our 10 most viewed blog posts of the year (plus a sneaky few honorable mentions).

1. 6 Ways Ansible Makes Docker-Compose Better

Containers are an integral part of DevOps workflows. With containers you can be sure that if you build an application once, you can run it in the same way across every environment along the application lifecycle. That’s great, until one developer announces the need for a second, third, or fourth container. More of them, all doing different things, and all connecting together – somehow. But how? Docker has a tool that can help – docker-compose. But it’s limited to environments with a Docker-centric view of the world and doesn’t solve non-Docker orchestration problems. That’s where Ansible comes in. Read more

2. Testing Ansible Roles with Docker

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