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Chapter 1. Overview

Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed with IBM watsonx Code Assistant is a generative AI service that helps automation teams create, adopt, and maintain Ansible content more efficiently. It uses natural language prompts to generate code recommendations for automation tasks based on Ansible best practices. Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed is also the cloud service that enables the integration of generative AI into Ansible Automation Platform.

To use the Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed cloud service, you must meet one of the following requirements:

  • Your organization has a trial or paid subscription to both the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and IBM watsonx Code Assistant.

  • Your organization has a trial or paid subscription to the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, and you have a Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed trial account.

    Note

    A Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed trial account does not require an IBM watsonx Code Assistant subscription.

To use an on-premise deployment of Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed, your organization must have the following subscriptions:

  • A trial or paid subscription to the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
  • An installation of IBM watsonx Code Assistant for Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed on Cloud Pak for Data
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