Product Marketing Manager, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
When building and maintaining consistent execution environments, platform engineers and developers routinely lose valuable time identifying dependencies, tracking down content collections scattered across different repos, and wrestling with manual syntax configurations.With the release of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.7, these challenges have become a thing of the past. The execution environment builder and unified content discovery experience within the automation portal work together to dramatically reduce time to automate while embedding governance from the ground up.Here's how these capabilities eliminate operational friction and help bring consistency across your organization:Visual Execution Environment BuilderCreating custom execution environments used to require deep familiarity with definition file syntax. The new visual execution environment builder removes this barrier with a guided, step-by-step workflow.Visual authoring without the guesswork: Build highly consistent execution environments through a clean interface that eliminates manual YAML syntax errors and command-line complexity entirely.Start from proven foundations: Base your work on predefined or custom templates rather than starting from scratch. Red Hat provides recommended execution environment templates tailored to specific IT domains, and organizations can add their own approved templates to maintain structural standards. Integration and automated discovery: Effortlessly locate and sync Red Hat Ansible Certified Red Hat Collections alongside your team's custom collections stored in GitHub or GitLab organizations. The interface brings all your Git repositories and automation channels into a single, searchable catalog with flexible, one-click selection and manual upload options.Automated output generation: Once your visual setup is complete, the tool automatically generates the complete execution environment definition file with immediate options to publish it directly to a repository or download it for your project.Automated build pipeline: You can also specify that the builder scaffolds a complete GitHub repository with an automated build pipeline. Select a target registry, and the generated GitHub Actions workflow handles building the container image and pushing it to your registry automatically, providing a ready-to-use execution environment without ever touching the command line.
