Red Hat Summit & AnsibleFest 2025: Ansible sessions you don’t want to miss

Are you ready to join Red Hat in Boston for the premier open source IT event of the year? Red Hat Summit and AnsibleFest are just around the corner, and we’re excited to share our session catalog, brimming with exciting content you won’t want to miss. Let’s get started building your experience agenda today. 

AnsibleFest keynote

The AnsibleFest mainstage keynote is an attendee favorite every year. For this year’s theme, Automators, unite! Driving transformative change in the AI era, you’ll hear from HashiCorp’s Armon Dadgar, who will discuss exciting possibilities on the horizon. You’ll also learn from actual Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform customers about how they are using automation to accelerate strategic impact for their organizations. Along the way, you can expect demos of exciting new capabilities coming to the Ansible experience. 

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform roadmap

If you attend just one automation breakout, make sure it’s “The future of automation: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform roadmap.” Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform product leaders will walk you through what’s coming soon to Ansible Automation Platform and how Red Hat is using AI to power the next generation of automators. 

Automation recommendations by topic or interest

You’ve got even more breakouts sessions, labs, lightning talks and experiences to choose from. Check out these recommendations by interest area and add them to your agenda builder before they fill up. 

Getting started with IT automation? Start here:

• Introduction to creating automation with Ansible development tools
• How does automation pay for itself?
• Firewall policy automation: Day 2

Need to expand automation implementation in your organization? Check out:

• Orchestrating Terraform with Ansible Automation Platform 2.5
• Data-driven automation: Introducing NetBox for configuration management, compliance and validation
• Advanced features of Ansible Automation Platform automation controller

Want to know how AI and automation work together? These sessions have you covered:

• Automators, unite! Driving transformative change in the AI era (AnsibleFest keynote)
• Introduction to Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform with AI
• Unlocking innovation: AI-powered observability, security, and automation with Dynatrace and Red Hat

Need to know how other companies are doing it? Hear from Ansible customers:

• Observability, reliability real-time analytics: Health monitoring for Ansible Automation Platform
• How Navy Federal Credit Union learned to embrace Ansible for Windows Server automation
• Automating Cisco Meraki network deployments for retail stores

Interested in virtualization at scale? See how it’s done: 

• Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization at scale with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
• Modernize VM workloads with OpenShift Virtualization: A gamified, bring-your-own-laptop lab
• From anchor to open source seas: Modernizing the Naval sector

And don’t forget to join us on Monday for Ansible Collab Day. This community-focused event unites Ansible users and contributors to collaborate across the open source ecosystem. Learn more here.