USE CASE

DevOps with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

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Overview

Red Hat® Ansible® Automation Platform automates the major stages of continuous integration, delivery, and deployment (CI/CD) pipelines—becoming the activating tool of DevOps methodologies.

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Features and benefits

Create a culture of communication

Team members from any department can participate in the same workflows by using the automation controller’s user interface, role-based access controls (RBAC), and human-readable automation language.

Establish (and protect) processes

Ansible Automation Platform protects and improves processes by allowing individuals within (and across) teams to capture solutions in playbooks that everyone can use or improve—simplifying the process of group interaction, problem solving, and (generally) getting stuff done.

Provide the right DevOps tools

Implementing a DevOps methodology requires tools like Ansible Automation Platform that break down barriers between development and operations teams while continuously delivering, monitoring, and measuring performance.

Integrate continuously

Ansible Automation Platform can validate interactions between different infrastructure components, using frameworks like Test Kitchen or Molecule to define and execute these tests, as well as ansible-lin that checks code against a set of predefined rules.

Deliver continuously

Automate the release of validated code to a repository codebase that's always ready for the next stage in the application lifecycle management process: deployment.

Deploy continuously

Deploy updates to servers, networks, load balancers, monitoring systems, web services, and other devices during a rolling update that uses a comparatively small amount of certified automation content.

Red Hat recognized for DevOps platform vision

Red Hat has been positioned as a Challenger in the 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant for DevOps Platforms, based on the company’s vision and ability to execute across Red Hat OpenShift and Ansible Automation Platform.

Customer success stories

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Education Payroll Limited used Ansible Automation Platform to automate DevOps processes associated with payroll management services across New Zealand’s 2,500 schools.

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Surescripts—the leading health information network in the United States—helped its DevOps team automate software development infrastructure and datacenter networking using Ansible Automation Platform.

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Switzerland-based DevOps partner VSHN built a managed container platform—APPUiO—using Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and other Red Hat products.

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DOCUMENTATION

Playbook example: Continuous delivery and rolling upgrades

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ARTICLE

What is continuous delivery?

Continuous delivery is a software development practice that uses automation to speed the release of new code.

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