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DevOps automation, cloud-native platforms, Red Hat, and AI agents — from the Level Up team.
Level Up Workshop: Automate Linux with Red Hat® Ansible Automation Platform – September 23rd Join us virtually Tuesday, September 23rd, 2025 at 10am Pacific / 1pm Eastern for this Red Hat® and Premier Partner Level Up co-presented workshop, where you’ll be guided through configuring Red Hat Ansible®
Read more →As Chief Architect of a Red Hat Premier Partner which is deeply specialized in all things infra automation, one of the first things I often see people being surprised about when they're new to Red Hat Ansible, is how much its core design truly is "addition by subtraction". Meaning: Ansible is agentl
Read more →For years and across a number of client projects now, Red Hat® Premier Partner Level Up has been using an internal tool to quick-start client proof of concept (POC) evaluations of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform® (AAP). Adopting this has already saved not only our clients, but also our own team,
Read more →The scenario is: You want the simplicity and low infrastructure cost of deploying Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) 2.5 containerized on a single VM (aka the "container growth topology"). But you also need to be able to run remote execution nodes, perhaps in far away data centers. In such a
Read more →While Red Hat® Ansible Automation Platform (AAP)® can certainly handle your Day 1 cloud native provisioning tasks end to end, sometimes you just want Terraform® to hand off a server it just built to AAP, maybe to do something like register the host in an inventory and then run an AAP job template, w
Read more →If you've been doing DevOps for a while already, when it comes to security for cloud native apps, you've surely heard it all by now: “Security is everyone’s responsibility.” “Bake security into your source code, don't bolt it on after.” “Shift left.” These DevSecOps slogans all sound great, but turn
Read more →If you're using Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (AAP), chances are your automation estate isn’t static. Teams grow. Infrastructure expands. Workloads shift across clouds and datacenters. Often, AAP customers can benefit from the convenience of simply applying their username/password in the Setti
Read more →The Level Up team saw a question recently around how to reverse-engineer an Ansible playbook, in order to try to validate it and then modify it for one's own purposes. Upfront, we'd generally recommend a good-better-best approach to unraveling anybody else's Ansible code (much of this can be applied
Read more →Level Up is proud to have been featured recently in a Red Hat® partner case study, which showcases some of our customer project experience supporting cloud offerings such as Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) on AWS. As highlighted: "Level Up, a Red Hat Premier partner, provided Red Hat Ansib
Read more →Since a number of our customers have had questions for us about the recent announcements around AWX [https://www.ansible.com/blog/upcoming-changes-to-the-awx-project/], we wanted to share our views on the current/future state of the AWX project as of Q4 2024, and make sure that everyone is making a
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