Overview of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and Red Hat OpenShift
With Red Hat® Ansible® Automation Platform and Red Hat OpenShift®, you can build and operate automation at scale, with the flexibility to run applications anywhere you need them.
Why Red Hat Ansible and Red Hat OpenShift?
In hybrid cloud environments, IT and application teams face highly complex infrastructure and software management.
Red Hat Ansible, when paired with Red Hat OpenShift, makes hard tasks easier by offering simple solutions for deploying, scaling, and updating applications reliably and consistently, from one common framework.
For example, rather than writing custom code to automate your systems, teams can use Ansible to write simple task descriptions. This means even the newest team member can understand on first read–saving upfront costs and making it easier to react to change over time.
How do Kubernetes Operators work with Ansible Automation Platform and Red Hat OpenShift?
Operators are an application-specific controller that extends the Kubernetes API to create, configure, and manage instances of complex stateful applications on behalf of a Kubernetes user. Operators build upon the basic Kubernetes resource and controller concepts but include domain or application-specific knowledge to automate common tasks.
Kubernetes Operators define a declarative state for infrastructure-as-code and maintain an application’s past installation into ongoing operations. Operators can be written in Ansible, so you can use the Ansible YAML language and ecosystem of over 3,000 community modules. That makes it possible to manage infrastructure-as-code, using Operators to define a declarative state for an application’s past installations into ongoing operations - no matter where the apps run.
And if you need to manage and automate operations in multiple clusters, even across different infrastructures, Red Hat Advanced Cluster Managements for Kubernetes brings it all together. A pre-built operator helps you connect your Ansible Automation Platform workloads to Red Hat OpenShift and move even faster toward container-native applications.
