Better together: The Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform provider for HashiCorp Terraform has been updated

Today we are excited to announce that we have released the first official provider for Ansible Automation Platform for Terraform Enterprise.

The first step we took was to update our provider to address the critical requirements shared to us from our customers and the Terraform team. We focused on getting our provider to a state that is fully supported by both Red Hat and HashiCorp as the main integration point for Terraform customers’ to interface with Ansible Automation Platform [1]. The first feature addressed was getting Ansible Automation Platform automation workflows added as a resource so they can be initiated from Terraform. This takes away the need to manage any orchestration yourself and lets Ansible do what it does best orchestrating and configuring infrastructure and workloads. Along the way, we also made additional enhancements to address looking up job templates, the ability to ensure a job status completes before the next action, and updating job resources to automatically remove disappeared jobs from Terraform state when AAP returns a specific error so you can better monitor your end to end infrastructure management.

With the release of the updated provider Ansible Automation Platform can perform automation on Terraform provisioned resources. Terraform Enterprise can now initiate Ansible workflows, improving scalability and simplifying infrastructure lifecycle management.

This is just the start. We will start to share some best practices guides on what you can and should do today with the Provider while we continue with incremental enhancements. We are committed along with HashiCorp to continue to support integration between our two platforms with the full experience you have come to expect with other official HashiCorp providers. Keep a look out for our next blog on the enhancements to our Ansible Automation Platform Collections to support Terraform Enterprise/Cloud workflows from Ansible Automation Platform.

Download the new Ansible Automation Platform Provider for Terraform.

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Learn more about Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.

[1] All Red Hat distributed software and components follow Apache 2.0 licensing