Oracle Linux Automation

Manager / Engine
Oracle Linux Automation Manager and Oracle Linux Automation
Engine are the latest additions to the Oracle Linux operating
environment. Together, they provide a cost-effective, powerful,
scalable, and secure infrastructure automation framework for Key Benefits

enterprise environments. Additionally, they streamline software  Reduces manual

processes and
provisioning, configuration management, and application-deployment, automates day-to-
enabling infrastructure as code. day IT tasks

 Stabilizes
Oracle Linux Automation Manager and Engine are included with an configuration
management
Oracle Linux Premier Support subscription. Oracle Linux Premier
 Avoids accidental
Support customers already using or evaluating AWX can run these and malicious drift
technologies and get support at no additional cost. using playbook-
based configuration
as code
Oracle Linux Automation Manager and Engine  Powerful, intuitive,
and secure web-
Oracle Linux Automation Manager is based on the AWX open source project. The
based user interface
AWX development branch and documentation are available in GitHub. Oracle
 Provides human-
Linux Automation Manager provides a centralized web-based UI with reporting readable
and control for your IT infrastructure. With a visual dashboard, it provides infrastructure
playbooks in YAML
workflow automation, role-based access control, job scheduling, integrated
configuration
notifications, and graphical inventory management. language

 Easy to create or
Oracle Linux Automation Engine is based on ansible-core open source software; leverage existing
development branch and documentation are available in GitHub. playbooks for tasks
such as configuring
Oracle Linux Automation Manager Release 2.0 has a new, decentralized SELinux, firewalls,
architecture. The modular, container-based approach effectively decouples the networking, and
adding users
control and execution planes with the option of multiple nodes and the ability to
 Standardizes
have a remote database environment. Current users can easily migrate to the 2.0 installing and
release by following instructions within the documentation. configuring
applications such as
For organizations invested in YAML, Oracle Linux Automation Manager can easily webservers on
integrate, provide an enterprise solution, comprehensive automation and run inventories of hosts

existing YAML-based playbooks.  Simplifies assigning

regular and timed

Oracle Linux Automation Manager 2.0 is comprised of three main components, job runs for tasks

Control Plane, Automation Execution Environments and Service Mesh.  Included with Oracle
Linux Premier
Support at no extra
cost

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Control Plane:

The Control Plane for Oracle Linux Automation Manager provides the user
interface, role-based access control and content management. The Control Plane
defines how automation is initiated, deployed, audited and delegated. From the
Controller Plane user interface or via RESTful API, users can manage inventory,
Key Features
schedule workflows, track changes and initiate reporting.
 Projects, which are a
logical store for your
Execution Environments: playbooks, can be
stored locally on the
Execution Environments simplify how automation is executed. With Execution Oracle Linux
Environments, the place from where the automation is executed is a ready- Automation
built container with Oracle Linux, ansible-core, python and supporting collections Manager or sourced
from a Source
and libraries, which enables a consistent and defined environment. Control Manager
(SCM) facility such
Service Mesh: as GIT.
 Inventory
Service Mesh provides a flexible multi-service network linking controller and management, where
execution nodes within a secure resilient mesh enabling the sharing of job logical groups of

execution. hosts can run

individual modules
or playbooks.
Dashboard  Credential
management, for
The Oracle Linux Automation Manager dashboard provides an immediate project source and
overview for everything scheduled and in flight within your environment. inventory nodes,
where credentials
From the dashboard, you can access hosts and inventory status, view all jobs, and such as machine-
an overview of recent job runs. The option to adjust job status or time range based SSH
credentials, Oracle
settings enables you to graph data based on specific requirements.
Cloud Infrastructure
(OCI) and GIT
access tokens are
centrally stored and
managed.
 Role-based access
control of users,
groups, and
resources.

 Programmatical
interaction with
REST API and CLI

Role-based access control

Allowing the right people with the right access to the right resources is key. Oracle
Linux Automation Manager lets organizations quickly and easily control who can
run what tasks on what resources. Related support
services

 Oracle Linux
Support
 Oracle Premier
Support for Systems

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Real-time job updates
Executed and scheduled jobs run in real time. As Oracle Linux Automation
Manager automates across your infrastructure, you’ll see running and completed
tasks, related to each system, and each success or failure, with complete output of
the execution.

Job scheduler
Oracle Linux Automation Manager offers different options to schedule playbook
runs and source control updates, allowing you to schedule occasional tasks like
point-in-time jobs (backup), periodic jobs (configuration remediation for security
compliance), or a full and continuous delivery job with just a few clicks.

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Activity log
Oracle Linux Automation Manager enables you to verify all the activities executed.
Events within your infrastructure can be analyzed, monitored for anomalies, and
correlated from one service to another. Event data types are job runs, activity
stream data, and log messages.

Inventory management
Oracle Linux Automation Manager provides inventories that enable a logical
segmentation of physical resources to be coupled with the role-based access
control framework.

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REST API and CLI support
Oracle Linux Automation Manager provides a REST API for programmatical
interaction as well as a CLI for direct interaction providing options outside the web
based UI.

Streamlined support
Oracle is the only vendor in the industry that offers a complete Linux-based
solution stack – applications, middleware, database, management tools, operating
system, virtualization, hardware, engineered systems, and cloud – along with
streamlined support, which offers several benefits.

With Oracle as your Linux support provider, your costs can be significantly lower
than with other vendors’ Linux support, while having a single point of contact for
all your support needs. Users are free to decide which systems should be covered
by a support subscription, and at which level each of them should be supported.
There is no all-or-nothing clause. This makes Oracle Linux an ideal choice for both
development and production systems. You decide which support coverage is the
best for each of your systems individually, while keeping all of them up-to-date
and secure.

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