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Working in IT, you're likely doing the same tasks over and over. What if you could solve problems once and then automate your solutions going forward?
Ansible is here to help.
Every business is a digital business. Technology is your innovation engine, and delivering your applications faster helps you win. Historically, that required a lot of manual effort and complicated coordination. But today, there is Ansible - the simple, yet powerful IT automation engine that thousands of companies are using to drive complexity out of their environments and accelerate DevOps initiatives.
No one likes repetitive tasks. With Ansible, IT admins can begin automating away the drudgery from their daily tasks. Automation frees admins up to focus on efforts that help deliver more value to the business by speeding time to application delivery, and building on a culture of success. Ultimately, Ansible gives teams the one thing they can never get enough of: time. Allowing smart people to focus on smart things.
Ansible is a simple automation language that can perfectly describe an IT application infrastructure. It’s easy-to-learn, self-documenting, and doesn’t require a grad-level computer science degree to read. Automation shouldn’t be more complex than the tasks it’s replacing.
Human readable automation
No special coding skills needed
Tasks executed in order
Get productive quickly
App deployment
Configuration management
Workflow orchestration
Orchestrate the app lifecycle
Agentless architecture
Uses OpenSSH and WinRM
No agents to exploit or update
Predictable, reliable and secure
Ansible is the most popular open source automation tool on GitHub today with more than a quarter million downloads per month. With over 3,550 contributors submitting new modules all the time, rest assured that what you are automating is covered in Ansible already, or will be very soon.
What’s the difference between Ansible and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform? Find out here
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is a comprehensive solution to automation that helps your team achieve its goals. It brings together the best of on-premise automation innovation while introducing hosted services that can be accessed alongside with other Red Hat cloud services on the hybrid cloud console.
With a Red Hat subscription, you get certified content, a robust partner ecosystem, access to hosted management services, and life cycle technical support that allows your teams to create, manage, and scale automation across your organization. And you’ll get expert knowledge gained from our success with thousands of customers.
Automated inventory management
Centralized automation execution
Job Scheduling
Scheduled and centralized jobs
Visual dashboard
Audit trails
Enhanced notifications
Visibility and compliance
Certified, supported integrations
Expert, trusted content
Role-based access control
Enhanced permissions
Automation is an essential and strategic component of modernization and digital transformation. Modern, dynamic environments need a new type of management solution that can improve speed, scale and stability across the enterprise IT environment.
No matter the complexity of your environment or where you are on your IT modernization journey, an IT operations automation strategy can help you improve existing processes. With automation, you can save time, increase quality, improve employee satisfaction, and reduce costs throughout your organization.
The Ansible automation integration in Red Hat Insights, Red Hat's predictive analytics and actionable intelligence platform, enables automated resolution of critical security risks by dynamically creating Ansible Playbooks.
The latest version of Red Hat CloudForms takes an industry-first Ansible automation-based approach to multi-cloud management, natively supporting Ansible Playbooks to make it easier to deploy IT services across clouds, enabling users to automate a wide range of policies and processes with no coding or scripting required.
Unless automation is designed for teams, it's just another tool. For it to serve people, automation needs to be smarter and simpler.
Simplicity grows more important the more people it impacts. That’s why Ansible is automation designed with everyone in mind.
Ansible is the first human-readable automation language that can be read and written across IT. No matter what role you have in the organization, or how technical - Ansible gives you a common language to describe your IT infrastructure.
HOW ANSIBLE WORKSBridge the gap between traditional IT environments and newer, agile implementations.
Leverage automation to migrate applications to new infrastructures.
Model everything and deploy continuously. Share and spread solutions.
Ansible is the only automation engine that can automate the entire application lifecycle and continuous delivery pipeline.