Ansible plug-ins for Red Hat Developer Hub
Empower teams and drive productivity with an internal developer portal custom-built for Red Hat® Ansible® Automation Platform.
Enable your automation Community of Practice
Ansible content is the fuel for automation. Yet many organizations struggle in their adoption of automation simply because users lack the access, the experience, or the right tools to get started.
Ansible plug-ins for Red Hat Developer Hub provides an Ansible-specific connection to Red Hat Developer Hub, which is based on Backstage—the open source Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) project.
Ansible plug-ins for Red Hat Developer Hub delivers a portal experience with curated learning paths, push-button content creation, integrated development tools, and other opinionated resources to help users who are new to Ansible learn quickly while supporting experienced teams with the resources they need to be more productive.
What can you do with Ansible plug-ins for Red Hat Developer Hub?
Learn
Follow guided learning paths, labs, and other expert-developed resources to help you learn the basics of Ansible and start automating faster.
Create
Quickly spin up new playbook or collection projects with built-in best practices and expertise.
Develop
Connect to the Red Hat OpenShift® Dev Spaces integrated development environment (IDE) via the user interface or choose your existing IDE to create your automation.
Promote
Deploy and share trusted content with operations teams to run consistently throughout your entire IT environment using streamlined CI/CD pipelines.
Features and benefits
Upskill on Ansible
Ansible plug-ins for Red Hat Developer Hub fosters learning and collaboration. If you're new to Ansible, you can ramp up your skills quickly while simultaneously creating Ansible Playbooks, collections, roles, and more. Curated, opinionated Ansible tools and resources help democratize access to automation so that any IT team can put their operational expertise to work through automation faster.
Accelerate time-to-value
Extract more from your IT automation investment in less time by enabling teams, regardless of previous Ansible experience, to create trusted and accurate Ansible content more efficiently. Build an automation Community of Practice (CoP) using a unified development platform that can enable automation best practices while ensuring consistency and standardization across your organization.
Boost automation development velocity
Eliminate common points of friction in your automation CI/CD pipelines with an enterprise-grade portal and common user interface (UI), integrated tooling including generative AI, and other Ansible-specific resources. Lower the barrier to entry and provide users access to the resources and tools they need to be autonomous and productive.
Ensure governance, control, and trust
Improve adherence to organization policies and best practices with an enterprise-grade, Red Hat-supported environment, tools, and more. Improve IT system reliability and consistency through improved code quality and governance.
FAQs
What are automation developers?
Despite what the title might suggest, an automation developer is not a traditional software developer. In fact, most automation developers (or automation engineers or platform engineers) don’t have extensive development skills or backgrounds in coding, yet they create playbooks, roles, modules, and other Ansible content every day and contribute to the successful adoption of automation within their organization.
What is Red Hat Developer Hub?
The Red Hat® Developer Hub is a developer portal that promotes efficiency and collaboration by visually consolidating elements of the development process. It streamlines onboarding speed, developer productivity, and collaboration through a unified and open platform while reducing cognitive load and frustration for the development team. With pre-architected and supported approaches, and by centralizing technology resources, developer focus can center on delivering a competitive advantage for their organization.
Who can use Ansible plug-ins for Red Hat Developer Hub?
The Ansible plug-ins are fully supported for customers with active Ansible Automation Platform and Red Hat Developer Hub subscriptions.
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Advance your skills
Whether you're new to Ansible or an experienced user, these learning paths, self-paced labs, and other resources will help you reach the next phase of your automation journey with confidence.
Improve developer productivity
Explore generative AI to help teams learn and be more productive writing trusted, reliable Ansible code.
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