Welcome back to Red Hat Developer’s Best of 2023 series, as we take a look back at the articles that captured developers’ attention over the past 12 months.
Automation and artificial intelligence (AI) were the talk of the town this year, with significant breakthroughs in open source and generative AI. 2023 also saw many advancements in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform; new offerings like Ansible Lightspeed and Event-Driven Ansible increase the efficiency of teams writing automation code and let developers focus on more strategic tasks.
The 10 most popular Ansible and automation articles of 2023
Based on our most-read articles this year, developers were particularly interested in learning about Ansible Automation Platform and ways to utilize it. Our list of top articles features tutorials on setting up a continuous integration pipeline, automating your single-sign on, creating a virtual machine on Microsoft Azure, and more.
Get started with Ansible Automation Platform
- What's new in Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 by Himanshu Yadav: Explore new features in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4, which integrates event-driven automation, validated content, and new generative AI capabilities.
- 6 steps to install Ansible Automation Platform 2.3 on RHEL by Tathagata Paul: Learn how to install Ansible Automation Platform 2.3 on a machine running RHEL 9.1 in this quick demonstration.
- Enhance Ansible development experience with Lightspeed by Himanshu Yadav: Get up and running with Ansible Lightspeed, a new generative AI service for Ansible automation, and the Ansible VS Code extension by Red Hat.
- Introducing Ansible Molecule with Ansible Automation Platform by Anshul Behl: Learn about Molecule 6, an automation testing framework now available as a developer preview in Ansible Automation Platform.
Continuous integration and continuous deployment
- How to employ continuous deployment with Ansible on OpenShift by Nagesh Rathod: Learn how to employ continuous deployment on Red Hat OpenShift using Ansible Automation Platform in this demo.
- Set up a continuous integration pipeline with Ansible Automation Platform and GitLab by Nagesh Rathod: Learn how to integrate Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform in a GitLab CI pipeline to automate and streamline your software deployment process.
Automate single sign-on, device management, and virtual machines
- How to create execution environments using ansible-builder by Tathagata Paul: Learn how to use execution environment builder, a CLI tool for Ansible Automation Platform, to create custom images and push them to a private automation hub.
- Automate your SSO with Ansible and Keycloak by Romain Pelisse: This article walks through how to automate your single sign-on setup with Keycloak and Ansible.
- Build and manage Red Hat Device Edge images with Ansible by Ricardo Noriega De Soto and James Harmison: Learn how to build Red Hat Device Edge images and manage field-deployed devices using Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform in this tutorial.
- How to automate VM creation on Azure with Ansible CLI by Deepankar Jain: In the first of a three-part series, learn how to use the Ansible Automation Platform’s CLI to automate virtual machines, configuring resource and security groups, virtual network, subnet, etc.
E-books and cheat sheets
If you’re looking for general information about getting started with automation and the benefits it offers, these short e-books are a great place to start:
- The cost of human error and the advantages of automation
- Enhance security with automation
- Build a foundation of security with Zero Trust and automation
- Automation at the edge
- Choosing an automation tool
We also published several Ansible cheat sheets this year to help you easily navigate various tasks:
- SSH into remote machines using Ansible
- Network automation with Ansible validated content
- WiFi automation with Ansible and SD-WAN Meraki
Even more automation resources
Learn how to create, manage, and scale automation with interactive hands-on labs and learning paths.
You can also check out our automation tag to browse our full content archive.
