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What’s New in Ansible Tower 3.1

Ansible Tower by Red Hat

Ansible Tower 3.1 adds a variety of new features that make it easier than ever to share and scale IT automation. Tower now includes multi-Playbook workflows to streamline jobs, clustering to easily scale-out Tower instances, enhanced search and more.

For this post, we asked members of the Tower engineering team to highlight what’s new with the latest release and share what they're most excited about.

Engineered for the enterprise

Tim Cramer, Senior Director of Engineering, shares a quick overview of the Tower 3.1 enhancements designed to help teams harness the power of Ansible automation across servers, applications, environments and networks:

 

Scale-out clustering

Matt Jones, Principal Software Engineer, explains how scale-out clustering enables you to support a larger number of Tower jobs:

 

Multi-Playbook workflows

Chris Meyers, Senior Software Engineer, describes how Tower's new multi-Playbook workflows promote greater re-use of existing job templates and allow you to build a CI/CD testing workflow:

 

And more...

“One of the things we are most excited about in Ansible Tower 3.1 is localization. This is the first release of Tower that has been localized. Tower is now available in Japanese and French. We went through a lot of thought as to where we wanted Continue reading