The first alpha release of ManageIQ Jansa is here! It has a bunch of interesting new stuff that you can see in the roadmap. There are 2 major changes that I want to draw your attention to.

We’ve just built Ivanchuk-4. This release contains bug fixes, UI tweaks, and stabilization. Here are just a few of the things added since the Ivanchuk-4 release:

ManageIQ is getting ready to release an alpha version of the Jansa release. Additionally, we are moving to a faster release cadence - approximately once every 3 months to keep up with the rate of change of all the providers that ManageIQ interacts with. We hope to release Jansa GA by June and the K-release by September. You will notice new milestones in the ManageIQ community to help us keep track of the features being planned for a particular release. The milestones and the roadmap should help keep us all on track!

We’ve just built Ivanchuk-3. This release contains bug fixes, UI tweaks, and stabilization. Here are just a few of the things added since the Ivanchuk-2 release:

Parts two and three of this series looked at passing input parameters into playbooks, and how to work with the Automate workspace. This article discusses how an Ansible playbook can be effectively used in a state machine.

Part one of this series described the functionality for using built-in roles to perform tasks with Ansible playbooks rather than Ruby methods in Fine. Part two of this series looked at how host lists and input parameters can be passed to embedded Ansible playbook services and methods. This article will discuss how a playbook method can form part of a larger automation workflow by interacting with the ManageIQ Automate workspace.

Part one of this series described the manageiq_automate and manageiq_vmdb roles that can be used by a playbook to interact with a ManageIQ workflow.

This is the first of four blog posts in a series written by Peter McGowan about Embedded Ansible capabilities released in ManageIQ Fine.

We’ve just built Ivanchuk-2. This release contains bug fixes, UI tweaks, and stabilization. Here are just a few of the things added since the Ivanchuk GA release:

With the release of ManageIQ Ivanchuk, we are introducing new integrated provider: Microsoft Azure Stack. Integration was developed by XLAB Steampunk, a trusted Red Hat partner specialized in integrating third-party technologies with Red Hat CloudForms and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.