USA: AnsibleWorks Inc., announced its corporate launch to provide new products, services, support, and training for Ansible, a popular Open Source IT automation solution. AnsibleWorks will sponsor Ansible by funding full time developers, implementing new ecosystem services, and providing subscription services, training, and events to the Ansible community.
AnsibleWorks was founded this year by Michael DeHaan and Saïd Ziouani. Michael is the original creator of Ansible and other popular open source projects including the Cobbler install server platform, and previously worked with Red Hat’s Emerging Technologies Group and Puppet Labs.
Saïd Ziouani, a 10-year Red Hat veteran who helped establish Open Source as a viable business model building and selling Open Source products to Fortune 1000 companies. He most recently served as executive VP at Eucalyptus Systems Inc.
Ansible was launched by DeHaan in 2012 as an Open Source project aimed at radically simplifying the orchestration and management of IT infrastructure. Ansible users are on the forefront of Big Data and analytics, including AppDynamics, Aerospike, Basho Technologies, Brainpage, Drawn To Scale, Lucky Sort, and eXelate, as well as major web properties such as Care.com and Gawker Media.
In addition to providing extreme simplicity that accelerates IT project time-to-value, Ansible breaks new ground in the IT automation space through a wide variety of capabilities:
* It does not require any agent software running on remote machines.
* It uses the standard SSH channel by default for maximum security.
* It allows configuration in simple text, rather than writing software code.
Ansible is especially appropriate for particular sets of IT organizations:
* those concerned about network security or daemons with root access.
* those with complex multi-tier environments, such as application server and database tiers.
* those needing to perform rolling updates, work within outage windows, or maintain uptime using load balanced pools.
* those wishing to avoid vendor lock-in by keeping automation content in well-defined data formats.
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