Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed

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Generative AI, designed for enterprise automation

Red Hat® Ansible® Lightspeed is a generative AI service for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, empowering automation teams to work smarter, make better decisions, and resolve issues faster. By building on user expertise with Ansible-specific guidance and recommendations, Ansible Lightspeed helps boost developer productivity, address skill gaps, and make onboarding to Ansible Automation Platform easier.

Ansible Lightspeed includes:

The Ansible Lightspeed with IBM watsonx Code Assistant, which helps automation developers create content for single tasks, multiple tasks, Ansible Playbooks, and Ansible Roles.
The Ansible Lightspeed intelligent assistant, which guides administrators to install, configure, maintain, and optimize Ansible Automation Platform while helping IT operators analyze, troubleshoot, and optimize automation jobs and workflows.

Why use Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed?

Enhance your efficiency and productivity

Ansible Lightspeed intelligent assistant uses a RAG pipeline into documentation and other trusted resources to help you onboard, manage, and maintain your automation with ease.

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Code with confidence

In alignment with our open source values, Ansible Lightspeed provides a foundation that elevates the user experience through integrity and openness. Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed will always attempt to reference the potential data training sources for each code recommendation, including the Ansible content, content authors, and licenses, for maximum transparency.

Extend trust in automation code

Ansible Lightspeed provides peace of mind by guarding your private data. All personally identifiable information (PII) is anonymized in Ansible Lightspeed, with code recommendations that adhere to accepted Ansible best practices, options to customize suggestions, and significant data safeguards in place.

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What’s included in Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed?

Ansible Lightspeed with IBM watsonx Code Assistant

The Ansible Lightspeed with IBM watsonx Code Assistant is an integrated AI development tool that helps speed up Ansible content creation. It’s available to use directly in Visual Studio Code by installing the Ansible VS code extension. You can use natural language prompts to turn your automation ideas into Ansible code while learning Ansible best practices along the way. This service requires a subscription to IBM watsonx Code Assistant as the connected large language model (LLM).

AI-powered content creation

Generate single tasks, multiple tasks, or entire Ansible Playbooks and roles. Eliminate context switching by accessing Ansible Lightspeed directly in Visual Studio Code, and use the guided chat experience to help refine the model’s recommendations.

Flexible deployment options

Ansible Lightspeed with IBM watsonx Code Assistant is available as either a software-as-a-service (SaaS) or an on-premise deployment for organizations with air-gapped environments.

Model customization*

Use your existing Ansible content to train the IBM watsonx Code Assistant generative AI model. Improve the quality and accuracy of your Ansible content with code recommendations that are more tailored to your organization's specific needs and automation patterns.

*Only available with IBM watsonx Code Assistant standard pricing plan

Try Ansible Lightspeed with IBM watsonx Code Assistant

To get started:

If you're not currently an Ansible Automation Platform subscriber, sign up now for a no-cost 60-day trial which includes access to Ansible Lightspeed with IBM watsonx Code Assistant. NOTE: When activating your product trial, you must also activate the Ansible Lightspeed service.
For current customers, start a trial of Ansible Lightspeed in Visual Studio Code by following this interactive walkthrough.
Refer to the Ansible Lightspeed documentation for more details.

Ansible Lightspeed intelligent assistant

The Ansible Lightspeed intelligent assistant is a generative AI chat assistant embedded directly in the Ansible Automation Platform UI. It gives Ansible Automation Platform administrators access to expertise and documentation to simplify platform administration, speed up onboarding, and reduce frustration with common points of friction. You can ask the Ansible Lightspeed intelligent assistant about anything—from Ansible Automation Platform features to how to accomplish specific tasks.

On-demand AI assistance

Access Ansible expertise when and where you need it most—directly in the Ansible Automation Platform UI. Use the Ansible Lightspeed intelligent assistant to help you install and configure the platform, set up access controls, and handle day-to-day automation management.

Source validation

Get context-based support with references and resources so you know where the answers to your questions are coming from. Follow links to explore relevant documentation further for accelerated learning.

Flexible model connectivity

Deploy the Ansible Lightspeed intelligent assistant on-premise with the Ansible Automation Platform containerized installer or on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform with the Ansible Automation Platform operator. Choose any Red Hat AI platform, like Red Hat AI inference server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI, or Red Hat OpenShift AI, for your connected LLM.

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