Introducing Ansible Lightspeed playbook generation and on-premise deployments

This year, we've launched a crop of new capabilities for Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed. In February, we announced model customization as well as flexible new pricing options, a free trial experience and an administrative dashboard. This month, IBM released a new version of  watsonx Code Assistant that includes full Ansible Playbook generation as well as an on-premise deployment option.

Ansible Playbook generation

With Ansible Lightspeed, users can now generate entire Ansible Playbooks from a single natural language prompt.

Enhanced interface

Ansible Lightspeed also includes a completely reimagined guided chat interface to help you refine and update your prompt before generating a playbook.

Prompt refinement

Ansible Playbook generation

Ansible Playbook generation can dramatically boost developer productivity while helping new users who are just getting started with Ansible learn about Ansible Playbook syntax and structure. In addition, it includes helpful text explanations to contextualize the purpose and impact of playbook code.

Ansible Playbook explanation

Finally, Ansible Lightspeed now uses the IBM 20B Granite model to generate better quality recommendations for automation content creators and developers.

On-premise deployment of watsonx Code Assistant

Many Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform customers use IBM watsonx Code Assistant's cloud-based service, but for organizations in sensitive industries with data privacy requirements or air-gapped environments, both the Ansible Lightspeed service and the watsonx Code Assistant LLM are now available for on-premise deployment. This enables Ansible Automation Platform customers more control over their data and supports compliance with enterprise security policies.

Additional resources

• Try an Ansible Automation Platform 60-day trial with Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed.
• Sign up for 30-day access to watsonx Code Assistant (cloud-based service)
• Read the blog: Getting started with Ansible Lightspeed with watsonx Code Assistant
• Visit us online: Ansible Lightspeed with watsonx Code Assistant