Ansible Integration with Red Hat
Apparently RedHat has acquired ansible. Any documentation planned for how this will be implemented within the RHEL "ecosystem"? Will the ansible
packages move to the RHEL package repos from epel?
Responses
For those following at home, this slide deck gives some insight: https://access.redhat.com/articles/2155391
I am a little surprised by the integration suggestions in this deck (slide 18), Ansible, Ansible Tower, Puppet and Satellite 6.x in the stack?
Are any community members currently running Tower in their Red Hat environment? keen to hear feedback.
Based on the comments I saw on the Foreman mailing lists when the Ansible purchase was announced, there's a fair amount of support out there for Ansible replacing Puppet. But Red Hat could never openly admit or support that as there are many customers who have bought heavily into the Puppet ecosystem. Shame it couldn't be an OR option though. That would be ideal.
Ansible Support in Satellite (when released) will be in addition to Puppet support. As a Satellite customer, you have the choice of using either, neither or both. More succinctly, both Ansible and Puppet will be first class citizens in Satellite 6. ( We'll also be continuing to invest in the Puppet ecosystems, delivering Puppet 4 support in the near future).
Hi Rich,
How about a standalone Ansible Tower on top of RHEL 7? In my company we supply Satellite as a Service, but customers setup there own management, monitoring, and automation stack. Currently they use the epel released Ansible and would like a supported version.
Kind regards,
Jan Gerrit Kootstra
Hi Rich,
I am talking about a Hosting Provider, where customers are running applications on our hardware or hypervisors. We provided them only access to our Satellite server, but do not provide an Ansible Tower service. We only intent to provide the rpm's to install Ansible. As the Satellite contains information for multiple customers we do not wish Ansible to scan the inventory. Allowing the inventory to be scanned would mean that we would have to split the Satellite into multiple organizations, even though there is only one System Management team.
Kind regards,
Jan Gerrit Kootstra