Automation Platform
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Features
- Ansible Lightspeed
- Ansible plug-ins for Red Hat Developer Hub
- Event-Driven Ansible
- Self-service automation portal
- Automation execution environments
- Automation controller
- Automation mesh
- Ansible Content Collections
- Ansible automation hub
- Automation dashboard and automation analytics
- Ansible development tools
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Integrations Extend your use of Ansible Automation Platform with partner offerings, including certified collections and resources.
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Deployment options - Documentation
Product feature
Self-service automation portal
Achieve new levels of scale with improved automation service delivery.
Overview
As organizations look to scale their automation, they often face a common challenge: getting more people and teams comfortable with using it. Many automation tools require specialized knowledge of complex coding and workflows, which limits who can run automation jobs. As a result, valuable automation often remains unused, hindering an organization's ability to fully benefit from its investment.
Ansible Automation Platform’s self-service automation portal helps to make automation accessible to everyone. With a simple interface, users can launch pre-approved jobs—like server setup or database requests—through guided steps, without needing technical expertise. This empowers more users to take advantage of automation, increases adoption, and helps organizations scale automation more effectively.
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Features and benefits
Synchronize existing automation content
Turn existing job templates into guided, step-by-step workflows that extend automation access to a broader set of users, while maintaining full control and compliance.
Seamless integration
Integrate your existing Ansible Automation Platform setup—same logins, security controls, and automation logic—with a simplified, user-friendly web interface.
Guided workflows
Guide users through automation requests using forms that feature field validation and dropdowns for Ansible Automation Platform artifacts—generated directly from existing job templates.
Tailored end-user experience
Create and import custom forms to deliver a richer end-user experience with dynamic fields and conditional logic for Ansible Automation Platform artifacts.
See how it works
Explore the capabilities of the new self-service automation portal with this interactive experience.
Frequently asked questions
How does the self-service automation portal help my organization scale its automation?
The portal allows your automation experts to build and make automation available to a broader audience through a simple user interface and guided workflows. This empowers IT teams and other business units to launch pre-approved automation tailored to their needs, without requiring specialized knowledge of automation. This frees up your central automation team from handling repetitive requests, helping to increase automation adoption across the organization.
If more people can run automation, how do we maintain control and compliance?
The self-service automation portal extends your existing governance—it doesn't bypass it. It integrates directly with your Ansible Automation Platform setup and uses the same security controls, user logins, and automation logic. Platform administrators have full control over which automation is published to self-service automation portals and who has permission to run it, ensuring that users can only launch jobs for which they have been approved.
What kind of experience does this provide for the end user?
The self-service portal is designed to make automation more accessible to everyone. Platform administrators can provide users with guided workflows and simple forms to launch automation, making it easier for more users with little or no Ansible experience to launch automation.
