Ansible Automation Platform 2.1 Released: Key Updates and New Features — Video Tutorial

Hello everyone and welcome to the latest Ansible Automation news from Ansible Pilot. On December 2nd the Engineer Team give as a gift before Christmas, they just announced their Ansible Automation Platform 2.1 General Available. Let me quickly remind you that the Ansible Automation Platform is the enterprise-grade release of Ansible with the Customer Support provided directly by the RedHat corporation. The Early Access 2.0 release was presented this summer but this new version was announced in September 2021. This is a major upgrade from the previous Platform 1.2. Let me share four highlights of this release: - The major news is automation mesh technology that enables dynamic cluster capacity, global scalability, and Secure automation with end-to-end encryption. - All the platform was designed with the container in mind. The automaton execution environment allows you to rely on pre-build containers to run our Ansible code. - The Automation Platform Operator run now natively on OpenShift, the Red Hat implementation of Kubernetes. - The central authentication is available for Controller and Automation Hub single sign-on (SSO) The platform now includes all the following 11 products: - Execution environment builder to create your customized execution environment. - Ansible content tools to simplify the development of your Ansible code in Visual Studio. - Ansible Content Collections for better code reuse mixing Enterprise, Partner, and Community grade - Automation content navigator to simplify the transitioning for developer journey to the execution environments. - Automation controller, the fresh rebrand of Ansible Tower. - Automation execution environments included three: Minimal, Supported, and 2.9. - Private automation hub to simplify the collection adoption. - Automation hub, cloud-based to manage the fully supported and certified Ansible Content Collections - Red Hat Insights statistics about your automation. - Automation services catalog, a lightweight IT service management. - Ansible Automation Platform Operator for OpenShift I'm ready to have fun with some of the new technology introduced by the Ansible Engineer Team. Thank you guys for all the hard work Even if you're using Ansible as Community only it's important to keep an eye on the Enterprise-grade evolution of the platform. Thank you for watching and have a great day from Ansible Pilot. More information on the official RedHat blog post: [Introducing Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.1](https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/introducing-red-hat-ansible-automation-platform-21). Conclusion Ansible Automation Platform 2.1 is a leap forward in Enterprise Automation. Related Articles - [Ansible Automation AI](/articles/ansible-automation-ai) - [What’s New in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6](/articles/ansible-automation-platform-2-6) - [Ansible Automation Platform (AAP): What It Is & Complete Guide (2026)](/articles/ansible-automation-platform-aap-complete-guide-2026)