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RA 2.1

With the release of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.1, we are proud to deliver the latest reference architecture on the best practices for deploying a highly available Ansible Automation Platform environment

Why are you going to love it?

This reference architecture focuses on providing a step-by-step deployment procedure to install and configure a highly available Ansible Automation Platform environment from start to finish.

B
ut there’s more!

Aside from the key steps to install Ansible Automation Platform, it incorporates key building blocks to optimize your Ansible Automation Platform environments, including:

  • Centralized logging across multiple Ansible Automation Platform environments.

  • Securing installation inventory passwords using ansible-vault.

  • Using a combination of GitOps practices (configuration as code capabilities) and Git webhooks to streamline the automation and delivery of configurations to multiple Ansible Automation Platform sites automatically, immediately and consistently. 

What are the foundational pieces to this reference architecture?

The reference architecture consists of two environments of Ansible Automation Platform: Ansible Site 1 and Ansible Site 2 for high availability. Site 1 is an active environment while Site 2 is a passive environment. Each site consists of the following:

  • A three node automation controller cluster with one PostgreSQL database.

  • A three node automation hub cluster with one PostgreSQL database.

  • Two execution nodes per automation controller cluster.

  • Access to hosted services on console.redhat.com such as Red Hat Insights for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, automation services catalog and Ansible automation hub.

To achieve high availability (HA) for the PostgreSQL databases, GitOps in conjunction with Git webhooks are used when push or merge events are triggered on a Git repository, which in turn will configure the specified event on both Ansible Site 1 and Ansible Site 2.

Why was GitOps (Configuration as Code) used within this reference architecture?

By storing and managing Ansible Automation Platform configuration files as code, you can:

  • Standardize the settings being applied to all our Ansible Automation Platform environments.

  • Inherit the benefits of version control of our configurations.

  • Easily scale additional Ansible Automation Platform deployments to use the same configuration settings.

  • Easily track changes of the configuration settings, which helps fix issues easier.

Combining GitOps with Git webhooks, you can set up an Ansible Automation Platform workflow that immediately updates all of our Ansible Automation Platform sites simultaneously with the exact configurations across all the platforms.

In effect, it removes the overhead of having to maintain database backups or enable an expensive database replication solution, while still achieving the strengths of those solutions.

Finally, for logging consistency, a highly available centralized logging environment was installed on both Ansible Automation Platform environments.

Why was enabling centralized logging a key part of this reference architecture?

When we think about logging, the first thought that comes to mind is often its ability to troubleshoot a particular issue. As technology continues to evolve and there is an enormous amount of data that applications must capture, logs play a vital role in capturing this data and allowing for operational intelligence methods.

Ansible Automation Platform provides a logging feature that enables the capability to send detailed logs to any number of third party external log aggregation services. Services connected to this data feed serve as a useful means in gaining insight into automation controller usage or technical trends. The data can be used to analyze events in the infrastructure, monitor for anomalies, and correlate events from one service with events in another.

By taking advantage of the latest reference architecture, you inherit the most valuable benefits on how to best run the platform right from the start. And who doesn’t want that?

An image representing the reference architecture is provided below.


What can I do next?

Whether you are beginning your automation journey or are a seasoned veteran, there are a variety of resources to enhance your automation knowledge:


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