Network automation is a big deal for Ansible—the company has customers who use another orchestration tool for most purposes, but run Ansible for network automation.

This how-to shows how to use free Ansible software to automate configuration of Cisco routers and links to other Ansible modules that apply to other vendors' gear and support other functionality ...

Huawei announced the release of its CloudEngine switch networking modules for Ansible, a Red Hat open source project.

Like Puppet, Chef, and Ansible, Salt offers a large number of modules to address specific software, operating systems, and cloud services. Custom modules can be written in Python or PyDSL.

IBM subsidiary Red Hat launched early access of Ansible Automation Platform 2, with Platform 2.1 expected to become generally available in November, adding capabilities around automation scaling ...