# Community Day at Red Hat Summit 2025 **URL:** \ **Category:** Blog\ **Tags:** event-slides, aap, awx\ **Created:** [June 11, 2025, 3:55pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/community-day-at-red-hat-summit-2025/43276 "2025-06-11T15:55:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
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Community day at Red Hat Summit this year included a great selection of talks around Ansible and the Ansible community. This post shares a summary of these presentations, along with the slides presented. # Ansible Collab opening session The day kicked off for Ansible with the [Ansible Collab opening session: Collaborating for success.](https://events.experiences.redhat.com/widget/redhat/sum25/SessionCatalog2025/session/1737554802938001HTBm) **Presenters** : - Matthew Jones, Distinguished Engineer, Red Hat - Kevin Myers, Senior Director, Engineering, Ansible, Red Hat - Helen Bailey, Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat - Ganesh Nalawade, Senior Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat This session detailed what the Red Hat Ansible team is focusing on through the rest of 2025 and into 2026. **Key topics:** - The health of our community and where it is growing - How we’re progressing with adoption of the Ansible Forum - AWX, AAP and how we’re modernizing for the future - The developer experience and how it shapes the future of Ansible [Slides](https://forum.ansible.com/uploads/short-url/fGwXNDlH5QxH2NVVaPkxH6mVjlK.pdf) (2.6 MB) # Creating sustainable automation content, the Ansible way. We next learned about [Creating sustainable automation content, the Ansible way](https://events.experiences.redhat.com/widget/redhat/sum25/SessionCatalog2025/session/1740518764426001YkYP) **Presenters:** - Don Naro, Senior software engineer, Ansible community team, Red Hat - Sandra McCann, software engineer, Ansible Community, Red Hat The session presented a shared understanding of the benefits of setting up a community of practice with your Ansible content developers. It explored how approaching automation from a collaborative mindset can bring benefits to small or large communities. **Key topics:** - Benefits of a community of practice for Ansible content developers - Collaborative automation mindset for small and large communities - Development patterns for collaborative testing and contribution - Avoiding technical debt - Improving maintenance - Enhancing security posture [Slides](https://forum.ansible.com/uploads/short-url/rmUnava2xhohL6fDSJB7SXAXboC.pdf) (1.6 MB) # Getting Started writing Ansible modules Another well-attended season, [Get started writing Ansible modules](https://events.experiences.redhat.com/widget/redhat/sum25/SessionCatalog2025/session/1740519944720001ZHGN) delved into creating modules. **Presenters:** - Chyna Sanders, Associate Software Engineer, Red Hat - Helen Bailey, Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat This session walked you through how Ansible engineers design and create new content every day. **Key topics:** - Examined a novel case study for automation. - Explained how to identify which endpoints to automate and at what granularity. - Covered how to choose good user interface points from an API. - Talked about how to plan for future expansion. - Explored tools and approaches we recommend to help you be successful, for whatever you want to automate next. [Slides](https://forum.ansible.com/uploads/short-url/3zJhEQ8mVzaMKjce4ky0tD3lG28.pdf) (1.8 MB) # State of Ansible Core 2025 We then heard an update on the [State of Ansible Core 2025](https://events.experiences.redhat.com/widget/redhat/sum25/SessionCatalog2025/session/1740518465261001dvIc). **Presenters:** - sivel (Ansible Core Team) - bcoca (Ansible Core Team) The Ansible Core leads talked about what’s new in `ansible-core` for 2025, and gave a sneak peek at some in-progress features. **Key topics:** - New data tagging features in `ansible-core`. - User-visible benefits of a major internal overhaul. - Practical tips for plugin developers and content authors. [Slides](https://forum.ansible.com/uploads/short-url/1WCkx749PIxIu7SwB5y8PkHVtvi.pdf) (383.2 KB) # Ansible Community Day: Key Takeaways Community day kicked off with an update on Ansible’s strategic direction, emphasizing community health, forum adoption, and modernization of AWX/AAP. Followon sessions covered creating sustainable automation content through community collaboration and best practices for writing Ansible modules. An update on Ansible Core 2025 introduced the overhaul of templating in ansible-core coming in 2.19. # Next Steps - Review all session slides for more in-depth information. - Read the posts here to explore the [AWX/AAP modernization effort](https://forum.ansible.com/tag/awx-modernization). - Review the posts on [`ansible-core` 2.19 changes](https://forum.ansible.com/tag/templating) and how to prepare for them in your playbooks, roles, and collections..