Introduction

In the first half of 2025, Red Hat released a wave of new and updated Ansible Content Collections across AI, networking, cloud, and infrastructure domains. This article summarizes the key additions and what they mean for automation practitioners.

AI Collections

redhat.ai Certified Collection

The redhat.ai collection provides modules for managing Red Hat AI infrastructure:

  • Deploy and manage AI models on RHEL AI
  • Automate InstructLab configuration
  • Streamline MLOps workflows

``bash

ansible-galaxy collection install redhat.ai

`

infra.ai Validated Content

The infra.ai collection offers ready-to-use playbooks for deploying RHEL AI across:

  • AWS — EC2 provisioning with GPU support
  • Google Cloud — GCE instances for AI workloads
  • Azure — VM deployment with AI-optimized SKUs
  • Bare Metal — Custom ISO generation for RHEL AI

`bash

ansible-galaxy collection install infra.ai

`

Networking Collections

Cisco UCS Validated Content

Better management of the Cisco UCS landscape through Intersight integration.

Cisco Intersight — 300% Expansion

Major expansion enabling automation for:

  • IP pool creation and management
  • VLAN policies and pools
  • Compute and network settings within the UCS ecosystem

Cisco Meraki Validated Content

New validated content for automating Meraki cloud-controlled remote devices:

`yaml

  • name: Configure Meraki network

cisco.meraki.meraki_network:

auth_key: "{{ meraki_api_key }}"

net_name: "Branch Office"

state: present

`

Nautobot Integration

Support for Nautobot as a Network Source of Truth, enabling automated inventory and configuration management.

Nokia SR Linux

New support for Nokia SR Linux device automation.

Juniper Apstra + OpenShift

Integration with Juniper Apstra using Event-Driven Ansible capabilities on Red Hat OpenShift.

F5 Validated Content

Proactive security scenarios with Event-Driven Ansible for F5 infrastructure.

Cloud Enhancements

amazon.aws 10.0

Major release migrating numerous modules:

  • EC2, VPC, and autoscaling modules
  • New module architecture for better maintainability

Azure Enhancements

  • Azure Arc device support
  • Azure Key Vault integration for secure automation

Infrastructure Updates

Windows Server

  • OpenSSH support for Windows management
  • 95% expansion of certified Windows content
  • IIS lifecycle management modules

VMware vSphere

  • Direct node counting improvements
  • Expanded certified use cases
  • VM creation in the vmware.vmware` collection

What's Coming Next

Red Hat's roadmap includes:

  • Google Cloud content expansion
  • Multivendor network inventory and health check reports
  • Juniper JunOS collection consolidation
  • Terraform Enterprise and HashiCorp Vault collections

Conclusion

The 2025 content updates significantly expand Ansible's reach into AI, advanced networking, and cloud infrastructure. These certified and validated col