What to know before you install or upgrade to Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6

What to know before you install or upgrade to Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 New installations of Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 Installing on RHEL RHEL containerized installation (recommended) RHEL RPM installation (deprecated) Installing on Red Hat OpenShift Upgrade and migration paths to Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 Deployment type migrations: Moving between RPM, container, and operator Migrating Ansible Automation Platform across RHEL versions Migrating across PostgreSQL versions Upgrading from Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 to 2.6 Upgrading from Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 to 2.6 Additional resources Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform | Product Trial About the author Leonardo Gallego More like this Blog post Blog post Original podcast Original podcast Keep exploring Browse by channel Automation Artificial intelligence Open hybrid cloud Security Edge computing Infrastructure Applications Virtualization Share Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 introduces powerful capabilities for managing, scaling, and deploying automation across your enterprise. Whether you're a new user planning your first deployment or an existing customer upgrading from a previous version, understanding the available installation and upgrade methods is critical. This guide provides a high-level overview of the supported paths to Ansible Automation Platform 2.6. Ansible Automation Platform offers flexible installation methods to suit your infrastructure, with support for deployments on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and Red Hat OpenShift. On RHEL, there are two primary methods for deploying Ansible Automation Platform, though one of the options is deprecated. Containerized installations are the recommended approach for new installations and deployments on RHEL. The Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 containerized installer requires either RHEL 9 or RHEL 10. Read the documentation to learn more. The Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 RPM-based install is only available on RHEL 9. We suggest using the RHEL RPM install method only for specific upgrade scenarios, not for net new installations. Read the documentation to learn more. When we released Ansible Automation Platform 2.5, we announced that the RPM install method was being deprecated.