The Oracle Linux and Virtualization team is pleased to announce the release of Oracle Linux Automation Manager and Oracle Linux Automation Engine, the latest additions to the Oracle Linux operating environment.
Together, these new capabilities provide a cost effective, powerful, web-based automation engine with reporting, credentialed role-based access control, work flow automation, and job scheduling framework for Oracle Linux customers that need modern provisioning, deployment, configuration management, and task automation.
Available today, Oracle Linux Automation Manager and Engine, based upon the open source AWX and Ansible projects, respectively, are included with an Oracle Linux Premier Support subscription. Oracle Linux Premier Support customers already using or evaluating AWX or Ansible can run these technologies fully supported, at no additional cost, on Oracle Linux.
Benefits
- Powerful, intuitive and secure web-based user interface
- Reduces complexity and manual processes while increasing repeatability of day to day automation of tasks
- Create once, test and run infrastructure playbooks such as configure SELinux, firewalls, networking and add users
- Install and configure applications such as webservers on inventories of hosts
- Assign regular and timed job runs for tasks such as yum updates
- Stabilizes configuration management
- Avoid accidental and malicious drift using playbook based configuration as code
Supported features
- Projects
- Projects are a logical store for your playbooks which can be either stored locally on the Oracle Linux Automation Manager or sourced from a Source Control Manager (SCM) facility such as GIT
- Inventory management
- Inventories are logical groups of hosts where individual modules or playbooks can be run
- Credential management for project source and inventory nodes
- Credentials such as machine based SSH credentials and GIT Access tokens are centrally stored and managed for Oracle Linux Automation Manager inventories and projects
- Configuration of users, groups and permissions
- Base users can be enhanced with varying levels of privilege based role-based access control
- Configuration of job templates
- Job templates are definitions and parameters for the execution of a playbook, useful for collaborative and reusable job runs content and collaboration between teams
Oracle Linux Automation Manager is based on the AWX version 15.0.1 open-source software. The AWX development branch and documentation are available in GitHub. Oracle Linux Automation Engine is included in Oracle Linux Automation Manager and is based on the Ansible version 2.9.19 open-source software. The Ansible development branch and documentation are available in GitHub.
Oracle Linux Automation Engine feature support will concentrate on infrastructure use cases such as loading the yum cache and an update of the inventory host to the latest version as well as http server deployment including configuration of the firewall. Two example playbooks for these use cases are stored ready on the Oracle Linux Automation Manager.
Product support
Oracle Linux Automation Manager and Engine are included in Oracle Linux Premier support subscription; Oracle Linux Premier support provides essential software updates, as well as new releases, proactive support tools and 24/7 service.