Red Hat has released Ansible 11, the latest community package of curated Ansible collections with major improvements for cloud-native automation.
Event-Driven Ansible
The ansible-rulebook engine is now deeply integrated, allowing infrastructure to respond automatically to events from monitoring systems, cloud providers, and service meshes:
- Respond to Prometheus alerts with automated remediation
- Auto-scale infrastructure based on CloudWatch events
- Trigger playbooks from webhook events, ServiceNow tickets, or Kafka messages
Cloud-Native Collections
- kubernetes.core 4.0 — Enhanced Kubernetes management with improved CRD support and Helm chart operations
- containers.podman 2.0 — Full Podman pod and Quadlet management for systemd-native containers
- cloud.terraform — Orchestrate Terraform plans and applies from Ansible playbooks
Performance
Ansible 11 includes a new execution strategy that reduces playbook execution time by 25-35% for large inventories through improved SSH connection multiplexing and fact caching.
