Automation-first approaches with Ansible Automation Platform

With automation becoming a key strategic differentiator in organizations, 80% of business leaders identify IT automation as “very important” or “extremely important” to the future success of their organization.¹ It is now imperative for automation to span many varied domains to move at the speed of the business, attract and retain talent, upskill employees, and scale tools for operations.

In the past, this meant implementing a range of solutions to meet the needs of each domain and required IT teams to spend significant amounts of time recreating and customizing automation for various domains. This made it especially difficult to take a unified, organization-wide approach to implement IT automation.

IT teams need automation capabilities that surpass disparate, task-based functions to achieve true end-to-end automation, allowing them to:

• Reduce costs and get quicker return on investment (ROI) from their technology investments.
• Automate in a more security-focused environment.
• Accelerate IT automation to keep pace with their business strategy and goals.
• Improve IT efficiency as infrastructure becomes increasingly complex. 
• Innovate to maintain relevance in the face of new competition.
• Keep pace with rapidly changing customer expectations.

Red Hat® Ansible® Automation Platform allows you to do more than automating for ad hoc, incremental efficiencies. It focuses on acceleration, consistency, strategic alignment, and, most of all, customer-centricity, which has resulted in Ansible Automation Platform customers achieving a five-year ROI of 667%.²

Provide your teams with an enterprise open source automation platform that works everywhere, can meet complex needs, and accelerate business outcomes with the engineering and support of Red Hat and access to a robust ecosystem of prebuilt, certified Ansible content for any automation use case.

From small scope to broad scale automation, Red Hat helps you deliver strategic business value at all levels.

Red Hat automation solution provides one platform for the whole team, including architects, content creators, and operators.

With Ansible Automation Platform, you can automate at scale with a consistent experience anywhere it is being used. This container-native approach gives your organization the flexibility to create repeatable automation that is managed and scalable on demand across any environment.

Automation tools and certified Ansible Content Collections

• Automation services catalog is available to customers as an on-premise, private offering for developers and business users to manage, provision, and retire automation resources, allowing for efficient modeling and delivery. 
• Ansible automation hub is available as both a hosted service and privately on Ansible content repositories to the on-premise private automation hub or to download directly. 
• Ansible Content Collections give you access to more than 100 certified content collections with more than 40,000 modules curated for consistent, compliant delivery. 
• Ansible content tools include automation content navigator (ansible-navigator), execution environment builder (ansible-builder), and ansible lint (ansible-lint).

Ansible Automation Platform security features 

• Streamline your security practices using Ansible Automation Platform. By connecting different tools on-premise as a hub, users can sync certified Ansible content to create a more unified security strategy.
• With a curated collection of modules, roles, and Ansible playbooks to respond to any threats across your enterprise, you can react in a coordinated, unified way.
• Integrations and partnerships with solutions include Cisco ASA, Check Point, CyberArk, Fortinet, IBM Resilient, IBM Qradar, and more, supporting security automation and capabilities, including investigation enrichment, threat hunting, and incident response.

Support, consulting, and training

• Red Hat Services Journey: Automation Adoption provides you with experts to ensure you are approaching your automation with scale and agility—whether you are automating manual tasks or are looking to apply standardization and governance to your automation deployments. 
• Red Hat Training and Certification can help teams become skilled, proven, and ready to automate, configure, and manage Ansible, with courses and exams that provide a strong DevOps foundation and skills needed to improve operational efficiency with standardized and centralized automation practices. 
• Organizations with Red Hat-certified staff reported that their employees delivered more value to their organization through greater skills and stronger technological know-how, resulting in 32% more efficient IT infrastructure teams, 24% more productive development teams, and an overall three-year ROI of 409%.³

Get started with a no-cost trial of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.

To learn more about automation strategy for IT leaders, read Taking the Lead on IT Automation, a report from Harvard Business Review. To explore Red Hat’s approach to enterprise-wide automation, download our no-cost e-book, Connect your hybrid cloud environment with IT automation.