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Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed
Red Hat® Ansible® Lightspeed is Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform’s generative AI service to empower your entire automation team.
Generative AI, purpose-built and trained for enterprise IT automation
Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed is Ansible Automation Platform's rich generative AI service that enhances user expertise and empowers automation teams to work smarter, make better decisions, and resolve operational issues faster. The Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed service helps boost IT and developer productivity, address skill gaps, and reduce onboarding friction. This lets automation teams respond to the complex demands of IT— equipped with Ansible-specific guidance and recommendations.
The service includes the following components:
- Ansible Lightspeed intelligent assistant guides platform administrators to install, configure, maintain, and optimize Ansible Automation Platform while helping IT operators analyze, troubleshoot, and optimize automation jobs and workflows.
- Ansible Lightspeed coding assistant supports automation engineers with content for single tasks, multiple tasks, Ansible Playbooks, and Ansible Roles.
- Ansible code bot helps modernize Ansible content repositories with the latest Ansible best practices, standards, and product capabilities.
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Features and benefits
Accelerate automation administration
Simplify Ansible Automation Platform administration with integrated access to documentation while eliminating common points of friction during set up, configuration, and maintenance. Trained on trusted Red Hat data sources, Ansible Lightspeed intelligent assistant helps administrators onboard and troubleshoot issues directly with the Ansible platform experience.
Create code efficiently
Create Ansible content faster and more accurately with reliable, trusted code recommendations—served directly in your code editing environment via the Ansible VS Code extension. Ansible Lightspeed with watsonx Code Assistant can generate single tasks, multiple tasks, or an entire Ansible Playbook or role from a single prompt. Customize the model using your proprietary Ansible content to further refine generative AI recommendations and accuracy.
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. Accelerate Ansible Automation Platform migrations with a simplified way to modernize and harden Ansible code before upgrading the next version of Ansible Automation Platform.
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Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between Ansible Lightspeed coding assistant and the Ansible Lightspeed intelligent assistant?
The Ansible Lightspeed coding assistant targets Ansible engineers and developers. It’s integrated into the Ansible extension for VS Code. This service requires a subscription to IBM watsonx Code Assistant as the connected large language model (LLM).
The Ansible Lightspeed intelligent assistant targets Ansible Automation Platform operators and administrators, and is integrated into Ansible Automation Platform itself. This use case requires the customer to connect to an LLM. Currently, Red Hat AI models are supported.
How do I set up the Ansible Lightspeed intelligent assistant?
The service is available as part of the Ansible Automation Platform operator on OpenShift deployments. Read the documentation for initial set up and configuration.
How do I set up Ansible Lightspeed with IBM watsonx Code Assistant?
You will need to activate the Ansible Lightspeed service and connect to IBM watsonx Code Assistant. Learn how.
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