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Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
Build and operate a scalable automation system
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.
Red Hat was named a Leader in the Forrester Wave for Infrastructure Automation Platforms, Q32020.
Features and benefits
Quick implementation
Access collections of supported, precomposed content—including those provided by certified partners—and distribute them throughout your organization.
Provide automation resources and services with control
Give developers and business users access to automation resources where they live—across physical, virtual, cloud, and container environments. Provide enterprise and line-of-business users with the automation governance they need to meet compliance and procurement requirements.
Inform decisions with data
Automation Analytics—a SaaS capability that comes with your subscription—lets operations team members analyze and aggregate data, and generate reports on the status of your automation deployments. A ROI calculator helps advance your automation program by enabling teams to show the time and resources they’ve saved using automation.
Standardize remediation
Security teams face a variety of multi-pronged threads as they work to protect infrastructure resources across multiple vendors. Ansible provides a more efficient, streamlined base to automate security practices and bring together the different tools used in security activities.
Empower more users
Extend the benefits of Ansible Automation Platform to network administrators and teams. Modules give users a common language—even across different vendors. Those network modules can configure your network stack, test and validate your existing network state, and discover and correct network configuration drift.
Product compatibility
Ansible Automation Platform integrates with the rest of our portfolio and other industry solutions to solve business problems.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux® includes built-in predictive analytics software to identify security concerns that Ansible Automation Platform can address. The result is automatic patch management that detects security issues in host nodes and remediates the issues using Ansible Playbooks.
The British Army automated their new software-defined datacenter
Red Hat Ansible Automation helps Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform users create and run reusable infrastructure code and automate provisioning tasks for cloud providers, storage solutions, and other infrastructure components.
HCA Healthcare created a real-time detection tool
Ansible Automation Platform helps you automate nearly every aspect of clouds configured by Red Hat OpenStack® Platform. Automate cloud service deployments, cloud infrastructure operations (with help from more than 50 modules), and even cloud-based apps.
Cathay Pacific created a hybrid cloud
Also works with:
It starts with Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Every technology within your IT stack needs to work well together. Because those connections rely on the operating system (OS), it has to be consistent, reliable, and flexible. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is all of these and more―the common link connecting modern IT.
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Manage Windows like Linux
Read about how Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform automates Windows environments using Linux® tools and languages.
How Ansible works
Get familiar with how Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform works in this short video.
Complete end-to-end automation
Operations teams can now manage and scale the infrastructure they need before application deployment by integrating with Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management.
Automate your network with Red Hat
Download this technical guide to learn how to implement common network automation tasks using Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.
Streamline CI/CD pipelines with Ansible
Learn about the role automation plays in CI/CD pipelines, typical use cases, and how Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform can help.
Automate infrastructure and deployment with Red Hat Ansible
Find out how Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform can replace the manual approaches to packaging and deploying workloads.
The path to cloud-native applications
Learn 8 steps—many of which focus on automation—to developing collections of small, independent, and loosely coupled services known as cloud-native apps.
Migrate to cloud-native
A pre-built operator from Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management helps you connect your Ansible Automation Platform workloads to Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform and move even faster toward container-native applications.
The automated enterprise
Learn about the benefits of automation, read success stories, and find out how to get started.
Forrester Research names Red Hat a leader in Forrester Wave report
Read why Red Hat Ansible Automation was named a Leader by Forrester Research in the Forrester Wave™: Infrastructure Automation Platforms, Q3 2020.
Creating a data platform for autonomous vehicles
See how the BMW Group built a high-performance, data-driven development platform as the foundation of its autonomous vehicle efforts.
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform time savings calculator
See how much time you could put towards other digital transformation efforts if you deployed Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.
An IT executive's guide to automation
Explore how to create a long-term strategy for automation and the executive’s role in the process, as well as what to look for in an automation solution.
The impact of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform training
Learn how Red Hat Training courses improve job readiness, agility, and DevOps productivity.
Training and certification
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