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  Best of Fest 2022
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  At AnsibleFest 2022, the power of automation was on full display. Through sessions, workshops, labs and more, we explored how to transform enterprise and industry through automation. There were a lot of exciting announcements made on both days, and in case you missed it, we are going to dive into what is new!

  
  
  https://www.ansible.com/blog/best-of-fest-2022
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  Introducing the Event-Driven Ansible developer preview
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  Today at AnsibleFest 2022, Red Hat announced an exciting new developer preview for Event-Driven Ansible. Most customers are on a journey toward full end-to-end automation and there are many paths you take along this journey.  Event-Driven Ansible is a new way to enhance and expand automation. It improves IT speed and agility, while enabling consistency and resilience. 

  
  
  https://www.ansible.com/blog/introducing-event-driven-ansible
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  Getting Started with Event-Driven Ansible
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   As one technology advances, it expands the possibilities for other technologies and offers the solutions of tomorrow for the challenges we face today. AnsibleFest 2022 brings us new advances in Ansible automation that are as bright as they are innovative. I am talking about the Event-Driven Ansible developer preview.

  
  
  https://www.ansible.com/blog/getting-started-with-event-driven-ansible
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  It takes a community: how partners play a key role in event driven automation
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  Event-driven automation is increasingly being adopted because of the strong benefits it delivers in managing huge amounts of complexity across multi-clouds, a multi-device remote workforce, and growing edge implementations. In a digital world, maintaining resilience and reliability is essential and event driven automation helps teams meet these needs while working around resource and skills gaps.  

  
  
  https://www.ansible.com/blog/event-driven-ansible-for-partners
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  Using Ansible and Packer, From Provisioning to Orchestration
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  Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform can help you orchestrate, operationalize and govern your hybrid cloud deployments.  In my last public cloud blog, I talked about Two Simple Ways Automation Can Save You Money on Your AWS Bill and similarly to Ashton’s blog Bringing Order to the Cloud: Day 2 Operations in AWS with Ansible, we both wanted to look outside the common public cloud use-case of provisioning and deprovisioning resources and instead look at automating common operational tasks.  For this blog post I want to cover how the Technical Marketing team for Ansible orchestrates a pipeline for demos and workshops with Ansible and how we integrate that with custom AMIs (Amazon Machine Images) created with Packer.  Packer is an open source tool that allows IT operators to standardize and automate the process of building system images.

  
  
  https://www.ansible.com/blog/ansible-and-packer-why-they-are-better-together
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  Dynamic inventory plugin collection for network device management
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  Tackling the complexities of enterprise inventories

  One common challenge our customers face is the need to track hosts from multiple sources: LDAP, cloud providers, and enterprise CMDB systems. Using a dynamic inventory allows users to integrate with these systems and update the Ansible inventory as it varies over time, with hosts spinning up and shutting down in response to business demands.

  
  
  https://www.ansible.com/blog/dynamic-inventory-plugin-collection-for-network-device-management
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  Migrate to Azure Monitor Agent on Azure Arc using Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
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  Azure Arc is becoming the default Microsoft Azure service for connecting non-Azure infrastructure into Azure monitoring and administration.  Azure has also issued a deprecation notice for the Azure Log Analytics Agents; Microsoft Monitoring Agent and Log Analytics (OMS).  Azure Monitor Agent replaces these agents, introducing a simplified, flexible method of configuring collection configuration called Data Collection Rules. To leverage Azure Monitor Agent with their non-Azure servers, customers will need to onboard their machines to Azure Arc-enabled servers. 

  
  
  https://www.ansible.com/blog/migrate-to-azure-monitor-agent-on-azure-arc-using-red-hat-ansible-automation-platform
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  Why Event-Driven Automation Matters
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  Life comes down to moments. These events are often how we define our achievements, successes, and failures throughout life. Just like our daily lives, IT organizations and teams can also have these defining moments, where you will often hear phrases like the "great database crash of '98." Many of these memorable IT  moments occur from limiting ourselves to a reactive approach when it comes to managing our IT assets. This is where event-driven automation can help us move from reactive to proactive IT management – well before we have the next great issue or moment in our IT teams. 

  
  
  https://www.ansible.com/blog/why-event-driven-matters
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  How network engineers can get more sleep using Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform: Your guide to AnsibleFest 2022
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  Since connectivity is critical to all types of business applications including cloud apps, managing and maintaining the network often falls into the overnight hours. This is great for the business, but it puts a large wrinkle in your work-life balance. Luckily, AnsibleFest is here to help you get more sleep! 

  
  
  https://www.ansible.com/blog/how-network-engineers-can-get-more-sleep-using-red-hat-ansible-automation-platform-your-guide-to-ansiblefest-2022
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  Ansible vs. Terraform Demystified
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  Update Check out the new article Ansible vs. Terraform, clarified on RedHat.com

   

  
  
  https://www.ansible.com/blog/ansible-vs.-terraform-demystified
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  The anatomy of automation execution environments
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  Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 introduced  major architectural changes, like automation mesh and automation execution environments, that help extend Ansible automation across your organization in a flexible manner, providing a single solution to all your organizational and hybrid cloud automation needs.

  
  
  https://www.ansible.com/blog/the-anatomy-of-automation-execution-environments
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  The Power of AI and the Science of Operations (Part 1)
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  A variety of industry experts cite Artificial Intelligence and Automation as key emerging trends.  But if you look around your organizations, you will see the evidence of AI projects and also an increasing focus on using automation in a variety of ways.  IBM and Red Hat together can help you build on and apply these trends to your IT operations. 

  
  
  https://www.ansible.com/blog/the-power-of-ai-and-the-science-of-operations-part-1
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  AnisbleFest 2021 - What it means for Partners
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  As the weather turns to Fall, the seasons seem to parallel that of the technology cycles. Over the past couple of decades, we have seen various transformations within the high-tech area:

  
  
  https://www.ansible.com/blog/anisblefest-2021-what-means-for-partners
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  Boost your cloud-native deployments with Red Hat OpenShift
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  Cloud-native deployments are becoming the new normal. Being able to keep full control of the application lifecycle (deployment, updates, and integrations) is a strategic advantage. This article will explain how the latest release of the Ansible Content Collection for Red Hat OpenShift takes the redhat.openshift Collection to the next level, improving the performance of large automation tasks. 

  
  
  https://www.ansible.com/blog/boost-your-cloud-native-deployments-with-red-hat-openshift
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  Ansible for AWS: Introduction to Spot Instance Automation
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  What are Spot Instance and Spot Instance Requests?

  A Spot Instance is an instance that uses spare AWS EC2 capacity that is available for less than the On-Demand price. Because Spot Instances provide the ability to request unused EC2 instances at steep discounts, it can lower your Amazon EC2 costs significantly. 

  
  
  https://www.ansible.com/blog/ansible-for-aws-introduction-to-spot-instance-automation
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  What's New: The Ansible AWS Collection 2.0 Release
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  When it comes to Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure automation, the latest release of the Ansible amazon.aws Collection brings a set of fresh features to build, manage and govern various public and hybrid cloud use cases while accelerating the process from development to production.

  
  
  https://www.ansible.com/blog/whats-new-the-ansible-aws-collection-2.0-release
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  Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2: Migration strategy considerations
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  Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 introduces an updated architecture, new tools and an improved but familiar experience to automation teams. However, there are multiple considerations for your planning and strategy to migrate your current deployment to Ansible Automation Platform 2.

  
  
  https://www.ansible.com/blog/ansible-automation-platform-2-migration-strategy-considerations
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  VMware resource MOID lookup filter
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  Are you trying to manage private clouds easily and efficiently using Ansible Automation Platform? When it comes to VMware infrastructure automation, the latest release of the vmware.vmware_rest Collection and new lookup plugins bring a set of fresh features to build, manage and govern various VMware use cases and accelerate the process from development to production.

  
  
  https://www.ansible.com/blog/vmware-resource-moid-lookup-filter
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  What's new in Ansible Automation Platform 2: automation content navigator
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  With the introduction of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2, several new key components are being introduced as a part of the overall developer experience. This includes automation execution environments, introduced to provide predictable environments during automation runtime. All collection dependencies are contained within the execution environment to make sure that automation created in development environments runs the same as in production environments.

  
  
  https://www.ansible.com/blog/whats-new-in-ansible-automation-platform-2-automation-content-navigator
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  What's new in Ansible Automation Platform 2: private automation hub
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  We are excited to announce that the Ansible Automation Platform 2 release includes private automation hub 4.3. Private automation hub provides automation developers the ability to collaborate and publish their own automation content and streamline delivery of Ansible code within their organization.

  
  
  https://www.ansible.com/blog/whats-new-in-ansible-automation-platform-2-private-automation-hub