Automation
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.
Automation services for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
The automation services catalog provides lifecycle management for automation resources, including provisioning, retirement, and logging.
Features and benefits
Quick implementation
Access collections of supported, precomposed content—including those provided by certified partners—and distribute them throughout your organization.
Manage complex deployments
Centralize automation using Red Hat Ansible Tower—a built-in component of Ansible Automation Platform. Access a visual dashboard, grant role-based access, and schedule jobs with real-time playbook feedback across multiple geographic deployments.
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.
Reduce repetition
Red Hat Ansible Engine is the component within Ansible Automation Platform that uses hundreds of modules to automate all aspects of IT environments and processes. It lets developers and IT operations teams quickly deploy IT services, apps, and environments to automate routine activities.
Learn about Red Hat Ansible EngineEmpower 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.
Learn more about network automationProduct 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.
Learn
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.
Introduction to Ansible Playbooks
Learn about Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform playbook concepts by watching a demonstration on how to create a playbook.
Ansible and hybrid cloud
Learn how Red Hat Ansible Tower is helping users move workloads across the hybrid cloud.
Getting started with Ansible
Watch this webinar if you’re new to our automation platform, have basic Linux system administration skills, and want more information on how to get started.
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.
Continuous integration and delivery with Ansible
Read how Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform can orchestrate multitier, multistep deployments and updates.
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.
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 2019.
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.
Enterprise network automation for 2020 and beyond
Read the findings of Enterprise Management Associates’ research regarding enterprises use of network automation.
IDC: Business value of Red Hat Ansible Tower snapshot
Based on IDC’s calculations, users realized benefits worth US$1.17 million per organization per year.
Training and certification
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