Use case

Configuration management with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

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Overview

Now more than ever, IT enterprise teams manage a complex array of applications and systems, including clouds, networks, storage, servers, and edge devices. Over time, the introduction of even minor inconsistencies or misconfiguration errors can lead to configuration drift and issues with performance, security, and compliance—and even cause outages.

Automation makes it possible for teams to establish more reliable, consistent IT operations, which can limit downtime and improve return on investment. With Red Hat® Ansible® Automation Platform, your team can automate and orchestrate a series of workflows across domains for more efficient, resilient, and consistent IT operations at scale. This allows you to simplify and transform operations at scale, deploy and decommission infrastructure components in minutes instead of hours or days, establish and maintain desired configuration states across multiple systems, and improve compliance.

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Features and benefits

Execute automation faster

With access to over 187 certified and validated content collections from more than 75 industry partners, you can quickly start automating common and time-consuming configuration management tasks.

Manage compliance through consistency

Automation execution environments help your automation run smoothly and consistently across multiple platforms, whether they're in your datacenter, cloud, or at the edge.

Respond to issues proactively

Event-Driven Ansible connects your data, analytics, and service requests to automated actions so that activities—such as responding to an outage or patching a server—can take place in a single, rapid motion.

Improve resiliency

Ansible Automation Platform performs the work of disparate solutions to establish baseline system settings and helps you reduce drift and downtime through consistent patch management, installations, and updates.

Measure automation performance

The automation dashboard and automation analytics give you full visibility into the performance of your automation, so you can track ROI, time savings, automation job success, and more.

Enable collaboration

Bring your IT operations teams and developers together using a shared language and standardized framework. Open up siloed teams and processes, enabling teams to share configuration management content to boost productivity and efficiency.

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Red Hat named the leader in infrastructure automation platforms

Forrester Research named Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform the leader in The Forrester WaveTM: Infrastructure Automation Platforms, Q4, 2024—with the highest score in the strategy category.

Customer success stories

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Zoom relies on Ansible Automation Platform to meet its rigorous security standards, as well as infrastructure automation, compliance functions, and application deployments.

The airline reduced network configuration operations by 5 months and continues to expand automation to manage over 5,000 devices more efficiently.

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Swisscom automates 20,000 IT and network systems with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, saving 3,000 hours annually while enhancing collaboration, self-service, and efficiency.

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