The open-source automation tool Ansible receives a number of upgrades in the area of ​​artificial intelligence and real-time processing processes from the owner Red Hat.

Ansible is powered by Red Hat with a front end featuring generative AI and the ability to process events in real-time.

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These new features make it easier for Ansible newbies to automate tasks. Experienced automation professionals no longer have to deal with small tasks.

According to Red Hat, English commands can be used to generate the YAML commands for Ansible playbooks, the list of automated tasks.

The new service integrates with IBM’s Watson Code Assistant via natural language processing. This simplifies the development of various applications thanks to suggestions from the AI. This service is scheduled to be generally available later this year.

The event-driven version of Ansible will be a standard part of the Ansible Automation Platform 2.4; The system can respond to data in real-time, helping IT take automated action when problems arise. Various events can be linked together to develop more complex automated responses.

Advantages

According to Tom Anderson, CEO of Red Hat and Ansible, such changes are badly needed. As the world gets more complex, IT teams not only need to keep up, they need to change the way they think.

In his opinion, updates and novelties like this are also a win-win-win situation; The productivity of existing employees increases, the simplified processes allow more people to enter the world of automation and all of this benefits the end user.

By connecting various observation tools to Ansible’s automation platform, developers have more time to innovate and free themselves from repetitive and rather tedious tasks.

However, it was recently revealed that AI could put 7,800 jobs at Red Hat-owner IBM at risk after nearly 4,000 people were forced to leave in January. So there’s a chance that opinions about automation and its benefits in the IBM workplace are somewhat divided.