Red Hat extends Lightspeed generative AI tool to OpenShift and Enterprise Linux

Red Hat didn’t create the core foundation model, however.

Take, for example, Ansible Lightspeed, which became generally available last November. Ansible Lightspeed is based on IBM’s WatsonX Code Assistant, which, in turn, is powered by the IBM Granite foundation models, according to Sathish Balakrishnan, vice president and general manager at the Red Hat Ansible Business Unit,

It is then further trained on data from Ansible Galaxy, an open-source repository of Ansible content covering a variety of use cases, he says, and further fine-tuned with additional expertise from Red Hat and IBM.

For example, to create and edit an Ansible Playbook and rules, users can type in a question and get an output that’s translated into YAML content. That streamlines role and playbook creation, Balakrishnan says. This helps companies translate subject matter expertise into best practices that can scale across teams, standardize and improve quality, and adhere to industry standards.

“The service also helps safeguard private data through data isolation, so sensitive customer information remains untouched and possible data leaks are minimized,” he says.

Hundreds of customers are already using Lightspeed Ansible to generate tasks, says Dubuque. “And we’re expanding it to build full playbooks,” he says. “But Red Hat Lightspeed is bigger than just Ansible. We’re infusing generative AI into all our platforms.”