USE CASE
Infrastructure automation with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
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.
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.
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
Sapphire automates to build servers faster, eliminate manual errors, and simplify documentation. As a result, Sapphire helps their customers streamline operations and lower costs.
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
Overview
Ansible Certified Content Collection for ServiceNow ITSM
Create new automation workflows while establishing a single source of truth in your ServiceNow configuration management database (CMDB).
E-book
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.
Interactive labs
Get some hands-on experience
Learn how to create, manage, and scale infrastructure automation across your enterprise in a preconfigured Ansible Automation Platform environment.