* [Topics](/en/topics "Topics") * [Automation and management](/en/topics/automation "Automation and management") * Why choose Red Hat Ansible for IT automation? Why choose Red Hat Ansible for IT automation? ============================================= Updated June 12, 2026•*4*-minute read Copy URL Jump to section --------------- OverviewBenefitsPartner ecosystemWhat customers sayRed Hat Ansible and AIThe benefits of open sourceHow Red Hat can help Overview -------- Modern IT environments in the AI era are too complex to manage manually. [IT automation](/en/topics/automation/what-is-it-automation) is essential for handling repetitive tasks on a large scale. Red Hat’s automation solution, [Red Hat® Ansible® Automation Platform](/en/technologies/management/ansible), gives IT teams the ability to provision, manage, and scale infrastructure across an entire enterprise. It helps software development teams deliver applications and services faster, with fewer errors, and at predictable costs. It helps system administrators improve security by enforcing governance standards. And it helps any team member work more efficiently by reducing manual toil. Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform stands out for its: * Use of human-readable automation playbooks. * Ability to run on and interact with a wide variety of platforms. * Expansive ecosystem of partner integrations. Built on open source technology, Ansible Automation Platform prioritizes versatility, flexibility, and accessibility to put automation within reach of everyone. This video can't play due to privacy settings To change your settings, select the "Cookie Preferences" link in the footer and opt in to "Advertising Cookies or try disabling adblockers." Learn how Ansible Automation Platform helps you build an automation strategy that scales across your business. Video duration: 3:39. Benefits of using Ansible Automation Platform --------------------------------------------- Ansible Automation Platform brings visibility and control to your organization’s IT automation strategy, unlocking a series of valuable benefits. ### Momentum When you can automate all your IT systems from a single platform, you gain the momentum needed to innovate and scale. With a multimode strategy—covering task-driven, event-driven, and AI-driven automation—your organization can match the right type of automation to each operational challenge. Teams can make iterative improvements and scale at their desired pace while respecting governance and security boundaries. Ansible Automation Platform provides the support you need to save time implementing your strategy. This includes certified and validated content from across a large partner ecosystem so you can start automating quickly. ### Resilience You can execute your automation strategy with the assurance that you’re keeping risks under control. Automation can help you enforce your governance policies, maintain security standards, and make your IT systems more reliable. With tested enterprise solutions and certified content, Ansible Automation Platform helps you build a trusted automation supply chain. [Explore Ansible Automation Platform's built-in security](/en/technologies/management/ansible/gain-security-with-red-hat-ansible-automation-platform) ### Productivity The accessible design of Ansible Automation Platform removes barriers between team members and time-saving automation tools. It empowers everyone to adopt and scale automation across your organization. With a consistent user experience across teams and domains, Ansible Automation Platform reduces complexity, closes skills gaps, and creates a foundation for innovative work. By unifying your automation strategy on a central platform, teams can work more productively.  You can also take advantage of Ansible Automation Platform’s [automation dashboard and automation analytics](/en/technologies/management/ansible/automation-dashboard-analytics) to measure your automation return on investment (ROI), understand automation performance, and make better decisions. ### Governance Visibility and control are important in complex operations workflows, especially those involving sensitive and critical systems. Ansible Automation Platform can support the governance standards IT teams need.  Automation orchestrator is an upcoming add-on capability to an Ansible Automation Platform subscription (expected in the 3rd quarter of 2026). It will provide a visual canvas for designing and deploying multimode automation workflows using shared data, a unified governance layer, and consistent audit trails. [Learn about automation orchestrator](/en/technologies/management/ansible/automation-orchestrator) The Economic Benefits of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Versus DIY Automation ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Read the report](/en/engage/omdia-economic-benefits-ansible-analyst-material "Read the report") The Red Hat Ansible partner ecosystem ------------------------------------- A thriving ecosystem of partners surrounds Ansible Automation Platform. This means you can get the partner support you need to innovate and differentiate your organization through automation. Ansible Automation Platform users benefit from prebuilt, fully supported, and certified automation content from Red Hat and its [partners](/en/partners), including [certified content collections](/en/technologies/management/ansible/content-collections). [Explore Red Hat Ansible partner integrations](/en/technologies/management/ansible/partner-integrations) What customers say ------------------ Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform has helped enterprise customers deploy automation strategies that save time and improve resiliency. Businesses in the most critical industries—banking, insurance, energy, airlines, and more—use automated IT processes to reduce errors and manual toil. For some customers, this translates to hundreds of thousands of engineering hours saved every year. You can explore how real customers are cutting service-ticket volume, automating network configuration steps, speeding up cloud environment creation, and more. [Read Ansible Automation Platform success stories](/en/resources/innovate-with-automation-ebook) How Ansible Automation Platform is ready for AI ----------------------------------------------- IT teams are using AI tools to make more intelligent choices regarding their operations while managing complex infrastructure to support AI workloads. Ansible Automation Platform fits this approach with support for a multimode automation strategy. Users can deploy and orchestrate task-driven, event-driven, and AI-driven workflows. * **Task-driven workflows** are probably the kind of automation you think of 1st. This includes deterministic execution of predefined workflows, such as patching many servers at once or provisioning accounts consistently every time. [Read more about Ansible Playbooks](/en/topics/automation/what-is-an-ansible-playbook) * **Event-driven workflows** execute automation when specific, real-time events occur. You can establish an action plan and set the plan to run when a defined event happens, like a state change or an observability threshold. Event-driven workflows can support auto-remediation and self-healing infrastructure. [Read more about Event-Driven Ansible](/en/technologies/management/ansible/event-driven-ansible) * **AI-driven workflows** use AI reasoning to analyze novel problems and propose solutions. You can define a goal and provide context, then instruct your system to suggest a solution and execute the appropriate automation. [Read more about automation orchestrator](/en/technologies/management/ansible/automation-orchestrator) The benefits of open source --------------------------- The Ansible project relies on an open source development model, with contributions from Red Hat engineers and a wide community of users and partners. The open source model cultivates innovative new features, community-powered integrations, and frequent updates that improve reliability and security. To deliver Ansible Automation Platform to enterprise customers, Red Hat brings together more than 20 open source Ansible projects in a tested and trusted solution. As with all Red Hat products, users get the benefits of open source delivered with enterprise-level support. By adopting open source technologies like Ansible Automation Platform, your company benefits from the open source development model and the principles that helped build these technologies. [Read about Red Hat and open source](/en/about/development-model) How Red Hat can help -------------------- With its broad portfolio of open source technologies and extensive partner ecosystem, Red Hat provides automation solutions that work across environments and integrate with tools you already use. To help you start automating, Red Hat offers [interactive labs](/en/interactive-labs/ansible) in a preconfigured Ansible Automation Platform environment. You can use these labs to experiment, practice, and learn how to create, manage, and scale network and IT practices efficiently. [Try Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform](/en/technologies/management/ansible/trial) Product Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform ----------------------------------- A platform for implementing enterprise-wide automation, no matter where you are in your automation journey. [Learn more about this product](/en/technologies/management/ansible "Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform") Learn Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform | Interactive labs ------------------------------------------------------------ Learn how to use Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform at your own pace with these step-by-step Red Hat interactive labs. [Keep reading](/en/interactive-labs/ansible "Learn Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform | Interactive labs") Keep reading ------------ ### The journey from observability to AIOps automation Learn how organizations can rely on observability, AIOps, and IT automation to deliver reliable services and applications efficiently. [Read the article](/en/topics/automation/observability-to-aiops-automation "article | The journey from observability to AIOps automation") ### AI vs. automation: What’s the difference? AI acquires knowledge and applies informed reasoning to make dynamic decisions, while automation performs repetitive IT tasks and processes. [Read the article](/en/topics/automation/ai-vs-automation-whats-difference "article | AI vs. automation: What’s the difference?") ### What is infrastructure automation? Infrastructure automation is the use of technology that performs tasks with reduced human assistance. [Read the article](/en/topics/automation/what-is-infrastructure-automation "article | what is infrastructure automation") Automation and management resources ----------------------------------- ### Featured product * #### [Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform](/en/technologies/management/ansible) A platform for implementing enterprise-wide automation, no matter where you are in your automation journey. [See all products](/en/products "See all products") ### Related content * Blog post [Scaling automated infrastructure compliance in telecommunications using Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform](/en/blog/scaling-automated-infrastructure-compliance-in-telecommunications-using-red-hat-ansible-automation-platform) * Blog post [Ansible Automation Platform 2.7: Visual Execution Environment Builder and Content Discovery Guide](/en/blog/ansible-automation-platform-27-visual-execution-environment-builder-and-content-discovery-guide) * Blog post [AI threats move fast. 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