Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
Red Hat® Ansible® Automation Platform is a foundation for building and operating automation across an organization. The platform includes all the tools needed to implement enterprise-wide automation. See what’s new with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.2
What is Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform?
Ansible Automation Platform provides an enterprise framework for building and operating IT automation at scale, from hybrid cloud to the edge. Ansible Automation Platform enables users across an organization to create, share, and manage automation—from development and operations to security and network teams.
IT managers can provide guidelines on how automation is applied to individual teams, and automation creators can write tasks that use existing knowledge. Ansible Automation Platform provides a more secure and stable foundation for deploying end-to-end automation.
What do you want to automate today?
Infrastructure
Build, provision, and manage applications and infrastructure across public or private cloud, containers, and virtual environments.
Applications
Automate your application deployments and make your installations, upgrades, and day-to-day management repeatable and reliable.
Networks
Manage entire network and IT processes across physical networks, software-defined networks, and cloud-based networks.
Containers
Manage and automate your Kubernetes clusters and scale containerized applications with support for Kubernetes Operators and frameworks.
Security
Orchestrate security systems using a curated collection of modules, roles, and playbooks to investigate and respond to threats.
Cloud
Provision instances, networks, and infrastructure with support modules that ensure deployments work across public and private clouds.
Features and benefits
Automation execution environments
An automation execution environment is a container image used to execute Ansible Playbooks and roles. Automation execution environments provide a defined, consistent, and portable way to build and distribute your automation environment between development and production.
Standardize and scale automation
Standardize how automation is deployed, initiated, delegated, and audited. The automation controller allows users to define, operate, and scale automation across their enterprise. Manage inventory, launch and schedule workflows, track changes, and integrate into reporting, all from a centralized user interface and REST API. The automation controller now features the automation topology viewer, which can graphically visualize even the most complex automation topologies—including hop, execution, hybrid, and control nodes—across multiple sites.
A framework for scaling automation
Automation mesh provides a simple, flexible, and reliable way to scale automation of large inventories across diverse network topologies, platforms and regions. Automation mesh provides flexible design options to build resilient and fault-tolerant architectures while providing enhanced security to standardize and normalize automation across your entire IT estate, from core datacenters to the edge.
What’s new in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2?
The redesigned automation platform provides new tools and features. Learn about the latest features based on 4 different automation roles: architect, administrator, creator, and operator in this e-book.
See what’s newOutcomes of using Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
Architecture
Standardize and unify IT automation
Ansible Automation Platform lets you standardize automation because it works throughout your organization, connecting users across IT domains to streamline orchestration and provide governance for a variety of use cases.
Ansible Automation Platform allows flexibility with your resources by automating provisioning for cloud providers, storage solutions, and infrastructure components. It helps make network management more consistent and expedites security patching and remediation. Use Ansible Content Collections with pre-packaged roles and modules to provision machines, apply base system configurations, and deploy apps.
Development
Automate application deployments
Developers can set up automation to provision, deploy, and manage compute infrastructure across environments. Deploy multi-tier applications reliably and consistently, all from one common framework, and configure needed services and push application artifacts using Ansible Playbooks.
Move software between testing and production environments more quickly by automating processes. This leads to repeatable and reliable deployments across the software delivery cycle, enabling DevOps and managing your CI/CD pipeline.
Operations
Deliver automated IT infrastructure
Use Ansible Automation Platform to automate infrastructure provisioning and orchestration, updating and patching systems, installing software, and onboarding users. Create and run reusable infrastructure as code (IaC) with Ansible Playbooks that can automate more extensive workflows, such as full application deployments to production. Get real-time job status updates and use analytics to understand which automation jobs are running successfully and where.
Take automation further with security vulnerability remediation, policy and governance, and content management tools that make operations more efficient.
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform managed option
The flexibility of Ansible Automation Platform starts with where you deploy it. Now you can get Ansible Automation Platform as a managed application on Microsoft Azure. It runs in your cloud, fully supported by Red Hat. And billing is integrated with Microsoft so you get one bill—and credit toward your Azure committed spend.
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A shared technological foundation
Red Hat’s open hybrid cloud strategy is built on the technological foundation of Linux®, containers, and automation. An open hybrid cloud approach gives you the flexibility to run your applications anywhere you need them.
Ansible Automation Platform builds on the foundation provided by Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat OpenShift and integrates with the rest of our portfolio so you can build and operate automation at scale.
With Ansible Automation Platform users can create and run reusable infrastructure code and automate provisioning tasks for cloud providers, storage solutions, and other infrastructure components in Red Hat OpenShift.
Ansible Automation Platform lets you automate compliance, expedite repetitive admin tasks, and gain consistency across your Red Hat Enterprise Linux environments.
How our customers use Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
Siemens improved IT efficiency using Ansible on Windows to automate manual management tasks and support a CI/CD approach.
Microsoft created a standardized, centralized network automation environment that reduces routine tasks and complexity.
HCA Healthcare created a real-time predictive analytics product system to more accurately and rapidly detect sepsis.
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What do you want to automate today?
Automate your application deployments and make your installations, upgrades, and day-to-day management repeatable and reliable.
Manage entire network and IT processes across physical networks, software-defined networks, and cloud-based networks.
Manage and automate your Kubernetes clusters and scale containerized applications with support for Kubernetes Operators and frameworks.
Orchestrate security systems using a curated collection of modules, roles, and playbooks to investigate and respond to threats.
Provision instances, networks, and infrastructure with support modules that ensure deployments work across public and private clouds.