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Automation has always promised the same basic things: less work, faster resolution, and more consistency. What has changed is how much judgment automation can now apply before work begins. Traditional process automation is excellent at executing known steps. Agentic automation, though, adds a new layer: AI systems that can decide which action or workflow should happen next. That difference matters a whole lot.

Edwin AI and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform help ITOps teams move from correlated alerts and root cause analysis to governed, auditable remediation. When an outage starts, the first alert is only the first artifact. The harder work follows: grouping related signals, separating symptoms from cause, identifying the affected service, and deciding whether the next action is safe to run.

If you've been watching the Puppetlabs namespace on the Forge (or waiting on a pull request you opened) you've likely noticed that the pace of inclusion of community pull requests and fixes into the module releases has slowed over the last several cycles. That isn't how we want to serve the community that built these modules with us. The team has been reviewing how we can improve and this post is our commitment to do better. Here are the steps we're taking now: Back to top.

Today, we are pleased to announce the release of CFEngine 3.28.0! The code word for this release is introspection. This is a non-LTS, not supported, feature release, with features which will become part of the next LTS scheduled for summer 2027.

After more than a decade of "cloud-first" strategies, a major counter-trend is reshaping enterprise IT: the systematic repatriation of workloads, data, and infrastructure back to on-premises and private data centers.