Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.7

Release notes

Includes new features, enhancements, notable technical changes, major corrections from the previous version, and known issues.

Patch releases

What is Ansible Automation Platform

Analyze automation usage with automation dashboard

Bring your own knowledge to the automation intelligent assistant

OIDC credential types for HashiCorp Vault

Get started automating with playbooks

Get started as an Ansible Automation Platform administrator

Get started as an automation developer

Get started as an automation operator

Choose a deployment method and topology

Plan infrastructure requirements for event persistence with Event-Driven Ansible

Install containerized Ansible Automation Platform

Inventory file variables

Install on OpenShift Container Platform

Activate your subscription

Understand and install metrics service

Install Ansible development tools (ansible-dev-tools)

Deploy Ansible automation portal RHEL appliance

Install automation portal on OpenShift Container Platform

Install automation dashboard to calculate savings (RHEL only)

Install Ansible Builder to create or edit execution environments

Deploy an MCP server on Ansible Automation Platform

Deploy the automation intelligent assistant on OpenShift Container Platform

Deploy the automation intelligent assistant on containerized Ansible Automation Platform

Configure the Ansible VS Code extension

Enable the VS Code extension AI assistant

Ansible plug-ins for Red Hat Developer Hub

Plan your upgrade to Ansible Automation Platform 2.7

Determine your upgrade path

Authentication changes in Ansible Automation Platform 2.7

Third-party authentication provider migration

API changes in Ansible Automation Platform 2.7

Containerized upgrade on RHEL

Upgrade on OpenShift Container Platform

Validating gateway authentication after the 2.7 upgrade

Upgrade metrics service

Upgrade Ansible automation portal

Upgrade the Ansible automation portal RHEL appliance

Upgrade Ansible plug-ins for Red Hat Developer Hub

Upgrade automation dashboard

Migrate from existing deployment topologies

Define automation target hosts in your inventory files

Define where automation runs with host and node groupings

Understand how to scale automation across your infrastructure with automation mesh

Scale with automation mesh in an Operator environment

Scale with automation mesh in a containerized or VM environment

Backup and restore your containerized deployment

Back up and restore in an OpenShift environment

Define, create, and build execution environments

Manage your organization's automation content

Manage collection access and permissions with namespaces

Manage containers in your private automation hub

Trigger automation from events with Event-Driven Ansible

User scenario: Automate actions by routing external event streams

Filter events before triggering automation with Event-Driven Ansible

Use awx-manage to access automation controller information

Get started automating with playbooks

Create, test, and deploy automation content with ansible-dev-tools

Emulate a platform environment locally with automation content navigator

Use jobs to run playbooks against an inventory of hosts

Standardize and streamline automation with automation job templates

Orchestrate complex automation with workflow job templates

Schedule recurring automation

Logically group playbooks with projects

Launch automation templates from Ansible automation portal

Streamline development by integrating Red Hat Developer Hub plug-ins

Trigger automation with webhooks

Best practices for automation execution

Build execution environments with automation portal

Access preconfigured development tools with Ansible development workspaces

Build automation faster with Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed

Configure Ansible Automation Platform

Distribute workloads with clustering

Configure supported inventory plugin templates

Configure static storage for Ansible Automation Platform

Configuration as Code with the ansible.platform collection

Set up your automation environment for Configuration as Code

Modules in the ansible.platform collection

Configuration as Code migration guide for Ansible Automation Platform 2.7

Configure a proxy to communicate with external systems

Configure central authentication for Ansible Automation Platform

Manage access with role-based access control

Understand secret handling

Configure automation hub tokens

Configure credentials to authenticate remote systems and services

Configure credentials for Event-Driven Ansible

Authenticate through the API

Renew and change SSL/TLS certificates

Harden the platform security posture

Manage firewall policies and rules with security automation

Automate network intrusion detection and prevention systems

Security automation use cases

Configure role-based access control for Ansible automation portal

Metrics for monitoring automation controller application

Generate consumption-based billing reports with the metrics utility

View activity streams for all resources

Understand and configure notifications

Access log information

Send log files to third-party aggregation services

Send metrics to system monitoring software

Configure logging for Event-Driven Ansible

Capture telemetry data for Ansible plug-ins for Red Hat Developer Hub

Capture telemetry data for the Ansible self-service portal

Integrate with HashiCorp Terraform

Integrate with HashiCorp Vault

Integrate with Open Policy Agent (OPA) to implement policy enforcement

Integrate with Red Hat Lightspeed

Optimize platform performance

Workload types and access methods

Vertically scale tested deployment models to improve performance

Horizontally scale tested deployment models to improve performance

Horizontally scale in Event-Driven Ansible

Performance tuning for operator environments

Scale up to an enterprise topology

Tune automation controller to improve performance

Tune the PostgreSQL database for optimal performance

Tune performance for Event-Driven Ansible

Get insights on automation across your environment with Automation Analytics

Manage analytics and data collection in Ansible Automation Platform

Optimize request timeouts

Access troubleshooting information in Ansible Automation Platform UI

Collect configuration and diagnostic information

Troubleshoot your containerized deployment

Troubleshoot your Operator-based deployment of Ansible Automation Platform

Troubleshoot automation controller

Troubleshoot Kerberos

Troubleshoot metrics service

Troubleshoot automation portal RHEL appliance

Troubleshoot automation portal authentication

Troubleshoot execution environment builder

Custom resources for Ansible Automation Platform

Ansible on Clouds

Ansible Automation Platform 2.7 PDF Reference