Red Hat said its open source IT automation framework Ansible 2.3 is now generally available.
Ansible 2.3 provides performance enhancements and advanced networking capabilities, including adding connection methods.
The Ansible project is one of theopen source automation projects on GitHub with an active and engaged community.
According to Red Hat, Ansible’s modular code base is powerful enough to manage today’s infrastructure. And easily adapts to new IT needs and DevOps workflows.
With Ansible, developers and IT operations teams can more quickly automate the entire application lifecycle – from physical and virtual servers to cloud computing deployments to Linux containers.
In addtion, Ansible 2.3 includes new networking platform support or modules from Apstra, Arista Networks, Avi Networks, Big Switch Networks, Cumulus Networks, Fortinet, Huawei, Lenovo, Ordnance, and Palo Alto Networks.
The number of supported networking platforms has grown to 29 and the total networking module count is now 267.
It also offer Broader support for Microsoft Windows with many new and enhanced modules that make automating Windows with Ansible easier. Ansible 2.3 also offers pipelining support to boost performance.
