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IT teams embracing hybrid cloud and new cloud-native technologies are challenged by specialist skills shortages for managing and administrating infrastructure and applications. Clients tell us they are looking to streamline operations and processes to maintain business and service continuity, redirect teams and employees to higher business value-added tasks, and digitize and automate manual processes, such as mortgage approval in the banking and financial services industry. IBM Power addresses these resource and skills challenges with a suite of AI-driven tools that help IT organizations overcome these obstacles. Learn more.

We invite you to join the community to learn about using Power automation tools to automate repetitive tasks and quickly identify and resolve production issues. Start a discussion - share your experiences by writing a blog - and stay up to date by browsing the content library.

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Community collections for Power on Ansible Galaxy
Certified collections for Power on Red Hat Automation Hub
Ansible for Power GitHub repos
New course from IBM Tech Training - DevOps on IBM i: Learn Ansible

Latest Discussions

RE: Creating lpp_source with ansible

By: Rasaq Raji , one month ago

Hi Chris, Thank you for sharing this tips with me, I really appreciate. This works perfectly. Just getting into Ansible on POWER environment, if you have got anymore playbooks that i can use to automate things on AIX, I will appreciate if you ...

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RE: Creating lpp_source with ansible

By: Chris Gibson , one month ago

Hi, I had the same problem, until I added packages: "all" to the playbook. Thanks to Rich Jefferies (IBM) for the tip. --- - name: "NIM operations to create, delete or show NIM resource objects" hosts: nim gather_facts: true vars: ...

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RE: Creating lpp_source with ansible

By: Rasaq Raji , 2 months ago

Thank you Andrey for your response. Below is the playbook i tried using but the problem is the lpp_source is not correctly created, comparing its size the ones i have created manually. --- - name: "NIM operations to create, delete or show NIM resource ...

Explore What's New: AIX Ansible collection version 1.9.0 available now !

By: Shreyansh Chamola 14 days ago

We are happy to announce the availability of our latest version for Ansible AIX collection - power_aix v1.9.0 The latest version builds upon our goal of Leveraging the power of Automation for making our user's day-to-day work life better, packed with ...

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Learn Ansible on IBM Power with our hands-on course

By: Upendra Rajan one month ago

Ansible on IBM Power Workshop Accelerate your Power automation journey with technical training from IBM By Chris Gibson and Upendra Rajan Introduction: The IBM Power Technical Training team have been working hard on an exciting ...

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Automating AIX updates with Ansible

By: Chris Gibson one month ago

Automating AIX updates with Ansible Installing AIX updates has never been easier with Ansible. Here’s an example of how I used Ansible to automate some recent AIX technology level and service pack updates on my AIX LPARs. Key to this ...

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Take the Guess Work out of building a Power Server in the Cloud by leveraging Power Virtual Server QuickStart

By: Mark Martin 3 months ago

Introducing Power Virtual Server QuickStart. For some, understanding and making decisions regarding best options for custom building an enterprise class server in IBM Cloud can be a challenge. For others, maybe they are accustomed to configuration ...

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AIX Ansible collection version 1.8.2 published !

By: Shreyansh Chamola 4 months ago

We are happy to announce the availability of our latest version for Ansible AIX collection - power_aix v1.8.2 This release brings new feature/code enhancements and bug fixes ! Following additional content was added with the new release: ...

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RE: Automation in AIX server

By: CHARIN KUMJUDPAI 4 months ago
Ansible for IBM Power Overview

By: HARIGANESH MURALIDHARAN 4 months ago

As IT automation plays a major role in increased productivity in terms of managing Infrastructure, Ansible ...
Power Virtual Server 2024 edition–Iterative improvements ...

By: Jenna Murillo 4 months ago

Power Virtual Server 2024 edition–Iterative improvements reduce total cost of ownership Published ...

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform on IBM Power is now Generally Available!

By: Linda Alkire , 5 months ago

We are excited to announce the GA of Ansible Automation Platform on Power. Customers who purchase enterprise subscriptions of Ansible Automation Platform can deploy the full set of components including automation controller and Ansible automation hub on their IBM Power servers, along with the popular set of Red Hat Ansible Certified Module Collections for IBM Power endpoints.

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