May 30, 2023
Red Hat launched Ansible Lightspeed with IBM Watson Code Assistant, a generative AI tool for Ansible automation, at this year’s Red Hat Summit. This service seeks to make automation more accessible to both novice and expert users by improving the task creation process.
According to Red Hat, this generative AI solution provides more consistent, accurate, and quicker automation. It employs natural language processing and connects with Code Assistant to gain access to IBM Foundation Models built on Red Hat’s Kubernetes service, OpenShift.
Ansible Lightspeed is part of the Project Wisdom project, which intends to make automation available to Red Hat’s ecosystem’s users, contributors, clients, and partners. The service enables customers to easily develop automation code using natural language processing by connecting with Watson Code Assistant, which utilizes IBM foundation models. This connection bridges the skills gap and improves automation efficiency.
Ansible Lightspeed, designed for developers and operators, increases productivity by allowing users to provide English prompts and easily transform their domain expertise into YAML code for Ansible Playbooks. User comments can also be offered to aid in the training of the model.
Red Hat claims that when Lightspeed develops a specific Ansible Playbook – a reusable, straightforward configuration management and multi-machine deployment solution – it is based on proven, high-quality data and code.
The sources for this piece include an article in TheRegister.
