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Chapter 2. Getting started with Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed

This guide shows how to get started with Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed.

2.1. Quick start for administrators
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Administrators can leverage Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed’s powerful automation capabilities to streamline system management tasks, reduce human error, and maintain consistency across complex environments. Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed helps administrators and enables developers to work more efficiently, improving productivity and the overall quality of their work.

As an organization administrator, perform the following tasks to set up and manage Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed for your organization:

  1. Choose and configure your deployment
  2. Administer the Ansible Lightspeed service

2.1.1. Choosing and configuring your deployment
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As an organization administrator, you can set up a Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed cloud service, as an on-premise deployment, or as a hybrid deployment.

Configure the Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed cloud service or on-premise deployment and connect it to your IBM watsonx Code Assistant instance. You can also set up a hybrid deployment, wherein Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed is an on-premise deployment, while IBM watsonx Code Assistant model is a cloud deployment.

You must have a trial or paid subscription to both Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and IBM watsonx Code Assistant.

As an organization administrator, you can manage the Ansible Lightspeed service after you have deployed Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed cloud service or on-premise deployment for your organization.

Perform one of the following tasks:

2.2. Quick start for developers
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Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed streamlines the process of writing and managing infrastructure as code, offering intuitive automation tools and integrations that enable fast, efficient coding. Developers benefit from its simplified workflows, allowing them to focus more on creating and deploying applications rather than managing underlying infrastructure.

After the organization administrators have set up Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed, automation developers can use the Ansible Lightspeed service to develop and use custom automation content.

Perform the following tasks to develop Ansible content:

  • Install and configure the Ansible VS Code extension
  • Develop Ansible content

To access Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed, all Ansible users must install and configure the Ansible VS Code extension in their VS Code editor. For the procedure, see Install and configure the Ansible VS Code extension.

2.2.2. Developing Ansible content
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After installing and configuring the Ansible VS Code extension, developers can create custom Ansible content.

You can perform the following tasks:

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