For Oracle Linux customers that need modern provisioning, deployment, configuration management, and task automation, Oracle Linux Automation Manager 2.0 is now available. It enables users across an organization—from development and operations to security and network teams—to create, share, and manage infrastructure automation tasks.   

Oracle Linux Automation Manager Release 2.0 has a new, decentralized, scalable architecture. It is comprised of three main components, Control Plane, Execution Environments and Service Mesh. 

Control Plane:

The control plane for Oracle Linux Automation Manager provides the user interface, role-based access control and content management. The Control Plane defines how automation is initiated, deployed, audited and delegated. From the Control Plane user interface or via RESTful API, users can manage inventory, schedule workflows, track changes and initiate reporting. 

Execution Environments:

Execution Environments simplify how automation is executed. With Execution Environments, the place from where the automation is executed is a ready-built container with Oracle Linux, ansible-core, python and supporting collections and libraries, which enables a consistent and defined environment. 

Service Mesh:

Service Mesh provides a flexible multi-service network linking controller and execution nodes within a secure resilient mesh enabling the sharing of job execution. 

Additional highlights of the 2.0 release:

• Enhanced user experience with increased performance, job output filters and stricter content security policies. 
• Introduces the ability to separate the PostgreSQL database to a separate node.
• Adds service mesh and clustering capabilities for up to 20 control and execution nodes.
• Execution environments replace python virtual environments.
• Migration path from Oracle Linux Automation Manager 1.0 to 2.0. 
• New lifecycle model provides 18 months support for each Oracle Linux Automation Management release.

Oracle Linux Automation Manager 2.0 is based on the AWX version 19.5.1 open source software. The development branch and documentation are maintained at https://github.com/ansible/awx/tree/19.5.1.

Oracle Linux Automation Engine is included in Oracle Linux Automation Manager 2.0 and is based on the ansible-core version 2.12.2 open source software. The development branch and documentation are maintained at https://github.com/ansible/ansible/tree/v2.12.2.

Why choose Oracle Linux Automation Manager 2.0?

Added scalability and flexibility

Oracle Linux Automation Manager Release 2.0’s decentralized architecture uses a modular, container-based approach that effectively decouples the control and execution planes, with the option of multiple nodes, and the ability to have a remote database environment. Current users can easily migrate to the 2.0 release by following instructions within the documentation. 

For organizations invested in YAML and using or evaluating AWX, Oracle Linux Automation Manager can easily integrate, provide an enterprise solution, comprehensive automation and run existing YAML-based playbooks.

Increased security and decreased complexity

Oracle Linux Automation Manager 2.0 connects to targets using an agentless approach, reducing complexity and payload, while increasing security by providing TLS certificate communication within the Service Mesh.  

Simplified sharing across teams

Architects, developers, administrators, and operations staff are often part of disparate and separate organizations. But in many cases, they use similar—and often the same—processes to create, manage, secure, and automate infrastructure configurations. Oracle Linux Automation Manager 2.0 makes it easy to share automation across teams of users, providing a single platform to create, execute, and manage infrastructure automation. 

Support

Oracle Linux Automation Manager and Engine are included with an Oracle Linux Premier Support subscription. 

Oracle Linux Premier Support customers can run these automation technologies fully supported, at no additional cost, on Oracle Linux.  

Try it now!

Individual Oracle Linux RPM packages (including Oracle Linux Automation Manager) are available on the Unbreakable Linux Network (ULN) and the Oracle Linux yum server. ISO installation images are available from the Oracle Linux yum server and Oracle Software Delivery Cloud and container images are available via Oracle Container Registry, GitHub Container Registry and Docker Hub.

Oracle Linux can be downloaded, used, and distributed free of charge and all updates and errata are freely available. Customers decide which of their systems require a support subscription. This makes Oracle Linux an ideal choice for development, testing, and production systems, since support coverage can be optimized for each individual system, while keeping all systems up to date and secure.

Resources

• Oracle Linux Automation Manager 

• Oracle.com/linux

• Download Oracle Linux

• Oracle Linux product documentation

• Oracle Linux Premier Support Information
• Oracle Cloud Native Environment