If you’ve been doing DevOps for a while already, when it comes to security for cloud native apps, you’ve surely heard it all by now: “Security is everyone’s responsibility.” “Bake security into your source code, don’t bolt it on after.” “Shift left.” These DevSecOps slogans all sound great, but turning them into reality takes more…
If you’re using Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (AAP), chances are your automation estate isn’t static. Teams grow. Infrastructure expands. Workloads shift across clouds and datacenters. Often, AAP customers can benefit from the convenience of simply applying their username/password in the Settings | Subscriptions area of their AAP controller, and selecting the full AAP subscription…
The Level Up team saw a question recently around how to reverse-engineer an Ansible playbook, in order to try to validate it and then modify it for one’s own purposes. Upfront, we’d generally recommend a good-better-best approach to unraveling anybody else’s Ansible code (much of this can be applied to your own Ansible code too).…
Level Up is proud to have been featured recently in a Red Hat® partner case study, which showcases some of our customer project experience supporting cloud offerings such as Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) on AWS. As highlighted: “Level Up, a Red Hat Premier partner, provided Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform on AWS via cloud marketplace…
Since a number of our customers have had questions for us about the recent announcements around AWX [https://www.ansible.com/blog/upcoming-changes-to-the-awx-project/], we wanted to share our views on the current/future state of the AWX project as of Q4 2024, and make sure that everyone is making a fully-informed near-term decision that’s best for their organizations and goals with infrastructure…
An early milestone for an Ansible developer is when you first begin mixing your traditional playbooks with roles. As you’ll see in this post, one of the most effective ways to get the many benefits of roles, without sacrificing the straightforwardness of your playbooks– especially in terms of being precise about what tasks you actually…
Tuesday 11/19: Level Up Workshop: Automate Windows with Red Hat® Ansible Automation Platform (4 hours) Register now: https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/sl/qcyVIAO/levelupansible20241119 Join us virtually Tuesday, November 19th, 2024 at 1pm Eastern Time for this Red Hat® and Premier Partner Level Up co-presented workshop, where you’ll be guided through configuring Red Hat Ansible® Automation Platform (AAP) controller to connect to Windows Server instances for…
Who among us hasn’t ever needed to download a larger file like an ISO or tarball onto their laptop via a browser, just to upload it via scp or WinSCP to a server somewhere far, far away– all because of the source website’s authentication requirements? Even in our modern world of multi-gigabit home Internet download…
Overview In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, agility and efficiency are paramount. While made available to customers as separate solutions, Red Hat OpenShift and Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) can fully combine forces to redefine how IT operations and development teams collaborate, innovate, and deliver applications in the hybrid cloud. Embrace this “both/and” solution as the centerpiece…
As fantastic as Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) is by itself, many customer success stories actually begin with third-party integrations and other extensions. After all, the opportunities that AAP creates for your organization have a lot to do with connecting various elements, thus making the sum greater than its parts and delivering quantifiable ROI.…