Streamline your network operations with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and Cisco Meraki

Together, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and Cisco Meraki provide a unified, automated approach to network management. This partnership simplifies edge networking with automated, cloud-based management and extends network automation frameworks to Cisco Meraki devices. Now, with Ansible Automation Platform available through Cisco, this powerful automation foundation delivers tangible benefits for common Meraki use cases.

The Power of Automation at Scale with Cisco Meraki

Combining Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform with Cisco Meraki offers organizations a unified strategy for network automation. Ansible provides a powerful, scalable foundation for building and managing end-to-end automation services across network infrastructure and edge devices, complete with essential features like audit capabilities and centralized content management and documentation. This is seamlessly integrated with Cisco Meraki's cloud-managed solution, which centralizes the management of campus and branch network infrastructure.

Manual IT management across many branch locations often leads to human errors, inefficiencies, and unintentional inconsistencies, causing network drift and complexity. Automation is the essential solution to ensure consistency, enhance operational governance, and avoid these issues.

The Certified and Validated Ansible content collections for Cisco Meraki provide users with tools to quickly automate network tasks. These collections allow for consistent handling of various use cases, including provisioning new branch locations, managing configurations, conducting health checks, and performing operational activities. By using these collections, you can rapidly replace, provision, and maintain network hardware, especially as existing gear approaches its last day of service (LDOS).

Advantages of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform with Cisco Meraki

By leveraging Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform with Cisco Meraki, your organization will achieve:

• Rapid deployment: Efficiently provision, configure, and scale branches and remote edge devices, quickly responding to changing network conditions.
• Proactive compliance: Detect and enforce desired configurations to stay ahead of potential issues.
• Operational stability: Reduce human error and maintain a consistent, reliable network state.
• Enhanced security: Automate critical and recurrent security tasks like PSK rotation and configuration drift remediation across locations.
• Increased agility: Respond rapidly to evolving business and market demands.
• Boosted scalability: Automate edge connectivity at scale, adapting workflows to changing network requirements.

Getting Started Ansible Automation Platform and Cisco Meraki

Leveraging the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform for Cisco Meraki deployments streamlines network operations. This approach replaces manual, error-prone tasks with reliable, repeatable, and scalable automated workflows, leading to rapid deployment, proactive compliance, enhanced security, and improved operational stability across your infrastructure. For users new to automation, the journey to automating your Meraki infrastructure with Ansible is well-supported:

• Start a trial for Ansible Automation Platform
• Learn more about this joint solution
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