By Stephanie Simone
CIQ, the founding commercial sponsor of Rocky Linux and the company behind the Ascender Pro automation platform, is announcing Ascender Pro now closes the loop between detection and remediation across an entire Enterprise Linux fleet, automatically routing the right fix to the right host in the right environment.
Operations teams get one system that watches for problems, decides what to do about them, and acts without a person in the middle, no matter how many environments they run. That same investment extends to the collections and containers teams depend on, and reaches beyond Ascender Pro entirely, with CIQ open sourcing the caching layer behind it for the wider Ansible community, according to CIQ.
Ascender Reaqt, Ascender Registry, and Federated Inventories are available now for Ascender Pro customers, with Ascender Galaxy Proxy now available as open source.
Built as independent Go services and written from scratch rather than adapted from an existing open source project, Ascender Reaqt gives CIQ full ownership of the codebase and lets the product evolve on its own roadmap. Each rule set gets its own endpoint and its own authentication token, so a credential tied to one integration never exposes any other, and a companion web application gives administrators a full UI and API for managing users, teams, permissions, providers, rule sets and listeners, backed by dashboards and metrics.
Ascender Registry lets administrators create repositories, pull specific collections and versions down from Ansible Galaxy, and host them locally, restricting exactly which collections and versions users are allowed to run. Teams can publish their own private collections the same way, and Registry doubles as a container registry for execution environments, all served through the same API structure as upstream Galaxy, so existing Ansible tooling works without changes.
Federated Inventories groups existing inventories together while preserving each one’s own variables and instance group assignments, then automatically determines which underlying inventory a target host lives in when a job runs, splitting one request across as many environments as necessary with no extra setup.
“For our customers, this release isn’t about matching a feature checklist; it’s about giving operations teams their time back. Federated Inventories alone removes a routing problem that used to require its own tooling or a manual step, and paired with Reaqt’s automatic remediation, a single alert can turn into a fix on exactly the right host without anyone standing in the middle,” said Bjorn Hovland, president of CIQ.
Ascender Reaqt, Ascender Registry, and Federated Inventories are available now to existing Ascender Pro customers. Ascender Galaxy Proxy is also available as an open source project.
For more information about this news, visit https://ciq.com/.