Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed with IBM watsonx Code Assistant
Red Hat® Ansible® Lightspeed with IBM watsonx Code Assistant helps automation teams learn, create, and maintain Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform content more efficiently.
Generative AI, the Ansible way
Ansible Lightspeed with watsonx Code Assistant is a generative AI service designed by and for Ansible automators, operators, and developers. It accepts prompts entered by a user and then interacts with IBM watsonx foundation models to produce code recommendations built on Ansible best practices.
Ansible Lightspeed can help you convert subject matter expertise into trusted, reliable Ansible code that scales across teams and domains. While it is included with an Ansible Automation Platform subscription, a purchase of IBM watsonx Code Assistant is required to fully activate the service and unlock its generative AI capabilities.
By combining generative AI and IT automation, Ansible Lightspeed with watsonx Code Assistant can help you:
- Enhance the productivity of automation developers.
- Expand who can create automation content.
- Extend trust in the automation codebase.
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Features and benefits
Create code efficiently
Create Ansible content more quickly and accurately with reliable code recommendations—served directly in your code editing environment via the Ansible VS Code extension. Ansible Lightspeed with watsonx Code Assistant can generate multiple tasks from a single request for a playbook or role.
Speed automation adoption
Content source matching provides transparency into the origins of code recommendations, fostering more trust in AI generated code. Post-processing capabilities help ensure that generated code adheres to accepted Ansible best practices, so teams can adopt automation with confidence.
Maintain code quality
Ansible code bot helps teams keep their automation code bases updated with accepted best practices. It scans existing content and automatically provides update recommendations that are ready to review, test, and apply, making it easier to maintain quality and consistency across the development life cycle.
Expand who can contribute
Reduce barriers to entry for code development, empowering automation creators with basic coding knowledge to translate their expertise into functional YAML for Ansible Playbooks.
See how it works
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Explore resources
Step-by-step guide
Learn how to set up Ansible Lightspeed with watsonx Code Assistant—from installation and configuration to content creation.
Red Hat talks to RedMonk
Watch an interview with Red Hat's Kaete Piccirilli and RedMonk about the future of generative AI and IT automation.
Put AI to work for you, the open source way
Learn how Red Hat uses AI to help your teams collaborate, scale applications, and simplify IT automation.
YouTube playlist
Explore this playlist of announcements and demos to learn how you can use Ansible Lightspeed with watsonx Code Assistant in your organization.
