Ansible Lightspeed with watsonx Code Assistant

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Automate with the power of AI

Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed with IBM watsonx Code Assistant is a generative AI service available to Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform users. Tapping into automation-specific foundation models, it uses natural language processing to turn written prompts into code snippets for the creation of Ansible playbooks.

The best part? It’s all done the Ansible way, ensuring an experience rooted in transparency, accuracy, and trust.

Why use Ansible Lightspeed with watsonx Code Assistant?

With Ansible Lightspeed with watsonx Code Assistant, you can create, adopt, and maintain Ansible content faster and more efficiently. You can turn your automation ideas into Ansible code via natural language prompts while learning Ansible best practices along the way. 

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Try Ansible LightSpeed with watsonx Code Assistant 

To get started:

  • If you're not currently an Ansible Automation Platform subscriber, sign up now for no-cost 60-day trial which includes access to the Ansible Lightspeed service. 
  • To start a trial of Ansible Lightspeed in Visual Studio Code, please refer to the documentation.
  • Refer to the Ansible Lightspeed documentation for more details.

Key features of Ansible Lightspeed

Playbook generation

Create entire Ansible Playbooks from a single prompt. Use a guided chat experience and content explanations to help refine the model recommendations while you understand the impact of the automation code on your operations. 

Flexible deployments options

Ansible Lightspeed with IBM watsonx Code Assistant is available as either a software-as-a-service (SaaS) or an on-premise deployment for organizations with air-gapped environments.

Model customization*

Leverage your existing Ansible content to train the watsonx Code Assistant generative AI model. Improve the quality and accuracy of your Ansible content with code recommendations that are more tailored to your organization's specific needs and automation patterns.

*Only available with IBM watsonx Code Assistant standard pricing plan

VS Code integration

Eliminate context switching to write your automation content. Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed is accessed directly in the popular code editor, Visual Studio Code, via the Ansible extension. 

Ansible-specific generative AI

Trained on Ansible data sets with post-processing rules to augment IBM watsonx Code Assistant model recommendations with Ansible best practices.

Ansible code bot

Infuse your existing Ansible content with Ansible expertise. Ansible code bot scans your content repo, and automatically submits pull requests when it finds automation content that could be qualitatively improved with best practices.

Enhance your efficiency and productivity

Enhance your efficiency and productivity

Thanks to the finely tuned, automation-specific AI model, Ansible Lightspeed brings accelerated playbook creation right into your code-editing environment. It provides a generative AI experience that is specially tailored to help you shorten development cycles and improve code accuracy.

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Code with confidence 

In alignment with our open source values, Ansible Lightspeed provides a foundation that elevates the user experience through integrity and openness. Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed will always attempt to reference the potential data training sources for each code recommendation, including the Ansible content, content authors, and licenses, for maximum transparency.

Trust & Compliance

Extend trust in automation code

Ansible Lightspeed provides peace of mind by guarding your private data. All PII data is anonymized in Ansible Lightspeed, with code recommendations that adhere to accepted Ansible best practices, options to customize suggestions, and significant data safeguards in place; you can leverage the power of AI without any concerns.

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