Red Hat Launches Ansible-Native Container Workflow Project (helpnetsecurity.com)

Orome1 quotes a report from Help Net Security: Red Hat launched Ansible Container under the Ansible project, which provides a simple, powerful, and agent-less open source IT automation framework. Available now as a technology preview, Ansible Container allows for the complete creation of Docker-formatted Linux containers within Ansible Playbooks, eliminating the need to use external tools like Dockerfile or docker-compose. Ansible's modular code base, combined with ease of contribution, and a community of contributors in GitHub, enables the powerful IT automation platform to manage today's infrastructure, but also adapt to new IT needs and DevOps workflows. Help Net Security reports: "The automated container creation and deployment offered by Ansible factor into Red Hat's existing container infrastructure stack, which now includes: A stable, container-centric operating system in Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host; An enterprise-grade, Kubernetes- and Docker-native container application platform through Red Hat OpenShift and the recently announced next-generation OpenShift Online public cloud service; Infrastructure management, automation and monitoring across hybrid environments with Red Hat CloudForms, Red Hat insights, Red Hat Satellite and Ansible Tower by Red Hat; Massively-scalable private and hybrid cloud architecture for large-scale container deployment through Red Hat OpenStack Platform and Red Hat Cloud Suite, which also includes Red Hat OpenShift."

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Re:Huh? Apparently I need to update my container k

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Ansible is a deployment mechanism that runs automated installations, like when you release new versions internally using continuous deployment and you're not deploying using 'heavy weight' deployment schemes like RPM/APT/MSI/ISO/etc...

Docker containers are light-weight simple isolated execution environments running in Linux, so that you can ideally choose to run Service X on machine Y without knowing or caring about the individual setup (there's usually some form of configuration management hub for detecting the new service and giving it work).

What this press release is saying is essentially you can manage mass deployment of Ansible-> docker deployments using Redhat based central applications management tools natively without relying on hand rolling all that crap yourself, which could be a nice enhancement if you've got a largely Redhat shop and an interest in continuous deployments.