RedHat acquires Ansible to enhance DevOps services

Ansible is a DevOps automation software that has gained increasing popularity in recent years. Although it has been less than three years since its founding in 2013, it is flexible to deploy and easy to read due to its plug-in architecture without proxies, as a result, it quickly becomes a high-profile DevOps tool. Open-source software vendor RedHat announced the acquisition of the DevOps automation software Ansible. Although RedHat has not yet announced the acquisition amount, according to the insider information of VentureBeat, the transaction amount may exceed

Ansible is a DevOps automation software that has gained increasing popularity in recent years. Although it has been less than three years since its founding in 2013, it is flexible to deploy and easy to read due to its plug-in architecture without proxies, as a result, it quickly becomes a high-profile DevOps tool.

Open-source software vendor Red Hat announced the acquisition of the DevOps automation software Ansible. Although Red Hat has not yet announced the acquisition amount, according to the insider information of VentureBeat, the transaction amount may exceed $0.1 billion.

Ansible is a DevOps automation software that has gained increasing popularity in recent years. Although it has been less than three years since its founding in 2013, it is flexible to deploy and easy to read due to its plug-in architecture without proxies, as a result, it quickly becomes a high-profile DevOps tool. In addition to the open-source version, Ansible also released Ansible Tower for enterprise users. It has been used by many well-known enterprises, such as Apple and Twitter.

Currently, well-known DevOps automation software tools include Puppet, Chef, Ansible, SaltStack, and CFEngine. After purchasing Ansible in Red Hat platform, undoubtedly, RedHat will play an important role in the popular DevOps field in recent years. Red Hat pointed out in the press release that it will continue to promote Ansible projects and communities and continue to serve enterprise users of Ansible Tower.

In fact, Ansible's team members have a lot to do with Red Hat. Ansible inventor Michael DeHaan developed the server deployment software Cobbler during his tenure at Red Hat, that is, the technology used by Red Hat Satellite; ansible, CEO and co-founder, Sa mongod Ziouani, and vice president of marketing, have also worked in RedHat for many years. However, Michael DeHaan left Ansible earlier this year.

At present, there are more than 400 Ansible modules. Alessnadro Perilli pointed out that modularization allows Ansible to support a wide range of requirements. Its modules support the management of the image file service Glance and Linux Container of OpenStack, as a result, F5 Big-IP Application Service controller is widely used to collect data, which helps enterprises face complex environments.

According to Red Hat's product portfolio, Alessandro Perilli said that Ansible's development is also in line with the Red Hat's open strategy to support multi-level system architecture, consistency, and heterogeneous multi-factory environment. Ansible supports the multi-level system architecture from containers, Virtual machines, and physical machines, for example, it can manage virtual machines in the VMware vSphere virtual environment, the host's customer Operating System (Guest OS), The OpenStack IaaS cloud environment, or the PaaS environment such as OpenShift.

Under the trend of Infrastructure as Code, Ansible is used to automate the deployment and management of the entire enterprise IT architecture using software programs. Alessandro Perilli indicates that IT includes network, storage, and computing (such as OpenStack) the job system, intermediary software, and application layer are applicable.

Ansible not only supports Linux, but also Windows. Based on its modular architecture, Ansible can support a wide range of products, such as F5 Big-IP, Citrix NetScaler network controllers, Amazon AWS or Google, and other cloud services. At the recent Amazon AWS Annual Meeting, Ansible just published a series of functions to support AWS cloud services.

In 2014, Red Hat began several highly strategic acquisitions. In April 2014, it acquired Inktank Storage and acquired Ceph Storage technology. Ceph is an open-source distributed storage software that features block storage and object storage. It is not only widely used in the OpenStack community, but also an open storage software with extremely high buzz in recent years.

Then in June 2014, RedHat acquired France's eNovance and Related Technologies of OpenStack integrated services. In September, RedHat acquired FeedHenry from Ireland and MBaaS (Mobile Backend as a Service, enter the mobile development market.

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