Overview

You can deploy and use Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed when you perform a new container-based installation of Ansible Automation Platform, or when you upgrade your containerized Ansible Automation Platform.

Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed includes two main components that enhance your automation experience with generative artificial intelligence (AI):

  • The automation intelligent assistant: An AI-powered chat interface embedded within the Ansible Automation Platform.
  • The coding assistant: A generative AI service that helps developers create Ansible content more efficiently and accurately.
Important:

Red Hat does not collect any telemetry data from your interactions with Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed.

Process to deploy Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed on a container-based installation

Task Description

Deploy Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed during a container-based installation of Ansible Automation Platform

An Ansible Automation Platform administrator who wants to deploy Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed for all Ansible users in the organization.

Perform the following tasks:

  1. Configure the Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed variables in the inventory file.
  2. Install or upgrade to containerized Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 or later.
  3. If you want to install the coding assistant, configure the Ansible VS Code extension.
  4. Optional: Change your LLM model if you want to use a different LLM provider after deploying Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed.

Access and use the automation intelligent assistant

All Ansible users within the organization who want to use the intelligent assistant to get answers to their questions about the Ansible Automation Platform.

Access and use the coding assistant

All Ansible users within the organization who want to use the coding assistant to develop Ansible content:

  • Single task or multitask recomendations
  • Create playbooks and view playbook explanations
  • Create roles and view role explanations