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Ansible is arguably one of the most well-known, most widely used IT automation systems in the world, and for good reason.  The setup process is radically simple, and the system itself is among the easiest to use, allowing you to manage your machines, develop modules in a dynamic language other than Python and enable auditability and content rewriting—but with unparalleled ease, simplicity and convenience.

Given Ansible’s prime standing in the industry, its humble beginnings—that of automating Linux—can be easy to overlook. But that is exactly how Ansible began, before evolving like any good open-source software should. Now, especially under the aegis of Red Hat, Ansible is no longer just a trusted and reliable automation platform. It is both powerful and encompassing, capable of automating a variety of services in the entire gamut of any IT environment.

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform has evolved so much that it now enables automation across private clouds (in both physical and virtual endpoints), as well as in containerised workloads. This means that Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform can build, provision, manage and maintain practically any infrastructure, which is foundational to running or deploying any and all applications.

Infrastructure-wise, Ansible Automation Platform lets you manage physical devices and provision bare metal servers, network devices or storage devices via Red Hat Ansible’s Playbook-based automation. Ansible Playbooks narrows down automation jobs into human-readable data-serialisation language that greatly simplifies automation and enables seamless integration into your current provisioning infrastructure. In addition, this process requires neither agents nor any custom security infrastructure, further making automation easier, simpler and faster.

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform works just as well in virtualised infrastructures, where you can use Ansible to gain absolute control of your virtual environments—provisioning, taking inventory and managing them as you desire. Then, after provisioning, you can also deploy and orchestrate across these same virtual environments. Critically, Red Hat Ansible supports all industry-leading virtualisation platforms, including VMware vSphere, Red Hat Virtualization and Vagrant.

Container automation is also a breeze with Red Hat Ansible  Automation Platform with its robust container and native Kubernetes management, which can be deployed for most container technologies, including Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform. Other popular Kubernetes frameworks and tooling that Ansible supports include native Kubernetes management and automation and Container Developer Tooling such as Buildah, Podman and Knative.

With Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, therefore, you can reap the wonderful benefits of automation regardless of the infrastructure you already have in place or are planning to use in the future. Among these benefits are:

• A stable and consistent environment.
• Across-the-board standardisation.
• Reduced downtime.
• Less severe incidents.
• More efficient use of resources.

The best part is that Ansible, being open-source, is freely available for all. However, businesses around the world are turning to employ the services of Red Hat Ansible as it provides a number of support and features that are vital for enterprises. To find out more about how Red Hat Ansible can benefit your business and empower its automation capabilities, click here and take this personalised intelligent assessment.

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