New Ansible Collections for AI Infrastructure — 2025 Content Update

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.

See also: Red Hat Summit: Connect 2024 – Future of AI, Cloud, & Automation

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

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

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:

- 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.

See also: New Collections and Integrations in Ansible Automation Platform 2.6

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

See also: Ansible Community Meetup 2024: Updates, Releases, and Networking

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 collections provide ready-to-use automation for enterprises adopting AI and modernizing their infrastructure.

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• discovering content via Ansible Galaxy • Windows users and groups via Ansible • encrypting variables with Ansible Vault • inventory configuration in Ansible • VPC automation via Ansible on AWS

See also

• Ansible Cisco UCS Automation: Manage UCS Manager Server Profiles, VLANs, and Policies