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Infrastructure automation with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

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Overview

Red Hat® Ansible® Automation Platform helps your teams spend less time managing and more time innovating. It ensures consistent configuration of infrastructure workloads, while also deploying and maintaining your systems, wherever they are—on-premise, in the cloud, or at the edge. And with a user-friendly interface and set of tools, Ansible Automation Platform allows you to efficiently manage diverse enterprise use cases, saving resources and freeing your IT teams to focus on the future.

See how Ansible Automation Platform can help you manage all of your infrastructure workloads. Video duration: 2:27.

Features and benefits

Ease complexity

Spend less time on error-prone, time-consuming tasks with event-driven automation and easy-to-navigate features that get you automating faster.

Control costs

Consolidate on a single, flexible platform that assumes the work of many disparate solutions, so you can be more efficient and adapt to change faster.

Ensure consistency

Use automated, repeatable workflows for uniform configuration management across your hybrid infrastructure.

Scale faster

Respond with agility and ensure consistent configuration as you manage workloads in your datacenter, across multiple clouds, and at the edge.

Build collaboration

Connect your DevOps and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) teams by using a common platform to promote automation content sharing and best practices.

Manage compliance

Automate security patching and apply consistent settings across systems—whether on-premise or in the cloud—to meet regulations and limit downtime.

Integrate your infrastructure—with one platform

Creating an enterprise-wide approach to automation means automating not only IT processes, but entire technologies, teams, and organizations. Ansible Automation Platform takes an automation-first approach to managing all of your infrastructure, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux®, Microsoft Windows, ITSM platforms, hypervisors, storage, and more. It integrates with SAP S/4 HANA®, Microsoft SQL Server, and more than 100 industry-leading solutions, so that you can manage all of your infrastructure through a single, fully-supported platform.

With Ansible Automation Platform, you can:

  • Manage Red Hat Enterprise Linux content, subscriptions, provisioning, and patching. 
  • Run both Microsoft Windows Server and Red Hat Enterprise Linux through a single, user-friendly interface. 
  • Deploy and manage Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP S/4 HANA—from Day 0/Day 1 design and deployment through Day 2 maintenance and optimization.
  • Simplify the installation, configuration, and tuning of Microsoft SQL Server running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. 
  • Provision and configure virtual machines and storage.
  • Maintain stability and performance of edge devices.
Infrastructure automation diagram

Diagram: Integrate automation across your enterprise with Ansible Automation Platform

See how to deploy and manage your IT infrastructure across cloud environments. Video duration: 2:33

IDC MarketScape report: Red Hat a leader in cloud management

Red Hat was named a leader in IDC’s 2024 assessment of vendors for multicloud and hybrid cloud management with automation. According to IDC, enterprises can confidently choose Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, thanks to its “comprehensive capabilities and broad support in accelerating automation maturity.”

Customer success stories

Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina
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Blue Cross NC created an automated, adaptable IT environment, improving efficiency and reducing costs. In 2 years, they saved 70,000 work hours and more than US$850,000.

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Sapphire automates to build servers faster, eliminate manual errors, and simplify documentation. As a result, Sapphire helps their customers streamline operations and lower costs.

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The AIA Group uses Ansible Automation Platform to eliminate manual provisioning and configuration processes, reduce service time to market, and accelerate migration to the cloud.

Keep learning

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Automate Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Simplify the deployment and management of Red Hat Enterprise Linux across IT environments using Ansible Automation Platform and Red Hat Satellite.

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Get some hands-on experience

Learn how to create, manage, and scale infrastructure automation across your enterprise in a preconfigured Ansible Automation Platform environment.

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