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How Red Hat Ansible Simplifies Automation
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May 20, 2022 Blogs

 

Red Hat isn’t a leader in automation for nothing. Not only does the powerful Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform enable organisations to automate a number of IT and other business processes, but it also allows for automation to be implemented simply and seamlessly.

This, in effect, strips away the complexity oftentimes associated with automating processes and makes this critical undertaking both accessible and viable—for businesses of all sizes.

But the question is: How exactly does Red Hat Ansible simplify automation?

Turns out, Red Hat accomplishes this in a variety of ways. First and perhaps most important, Red Hat Ansible is actually the simplest automation platform available today. It is, in fact, the kind of tech that anyone—from IT personnel to operators to administrators and IT decision-makers—can use.

It is the de-facto technology in automation, with all the tools required for enterprise-wide automation. Ansible Automation Platform 2.1, for instance, contains prebuilt and supported automation execution environments, along with multiple tools and features that enable automation scaling across an organisation.

Second, Red Hat Ansible leverages the power of open-source. In fact, Ansible is automation powered by people, with open-source and collaboration being the very heart of the Ansible community. This same community is built by people who demand powerful but simplified automation solutions—and for the people that want the same.

It is a community whose members help one another to experience the full power of automation, and they work better and faster together. In other words, any organisation that deploys Red Hat Ansible automatically gets access to the Ansible community, which will readily assist the organisation’s automation initiatives.

Third, Red Hat Ansible has the playbook—a blueprint of automation tasks, or complex IT actions performed, but with limited to no human involvement at all. In other words, Ansible playbooks are essentially frameworks or prewritten code that developers can use in their starting template or for ad-hoc purposes. These playbooks are commonly used for automating networks, IT infrastructure like operating systems and Kubernetes platforms, and security and developer personas such as Red Hat CodeReady Studio.

Critically, Ansible playbooks eliminate the time-consuming, effort-intensive manual overhead of creating everything from scratch, which then reduces the complexities of programming services, applications, server nodes and other devices from the very beginning. These same playbooks and everything in them can even be saved, shared and reused as needed. Incidentally, Red Hat also has an on-demand webinar for those who want to learn how to use Ansible playbooks.

Fourth, Red Hat Ansible utilises YAML, which stands for “Yet Another Markup Language” (or the recursive acronym “YAML Ain’t Markup Language). This is a data serialisation language generally used for writing configuration files and is useful because it allows developers—through Ansible playbooks—to describe automation jobs in a manner that closely approximates plain English. In other words, YAML is human-readable and easy to understand, and that is why it is one of the most popular and easy to use programming languages out there.

Automation is far beyond being just a buzzword already, and it is way more than a mere convenience nowadays. Today automation is a key differentiator that can help organisations enhance efficiency, improve management, scale processes and IT stacks and boost IT performance. But automation can be daunting, which is why some businesses continue to have second thoughts about automating. Red Hat Ansible, though, simplifies automation considerably, making it easy to execute and more accessible to organisations that want to get ahead of the competition.

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