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In this age of digital transformation, businesses that can simplify and streamline app development will gain a competitive advantage over those that cannot do the same. One way to do that is to utilise containers, a form of operating system virtualisation that can, among other things, run smaller microservices and software processes or larger applications that can drive business value.

Put simply, containerisation is bound to benefit a business by enabling IT speed, consistency, flexibility and agility but with considerably less overhead since containers require fewer system resources as opposed to traditional hardware or virtual machines. Containerisation, however, is an approach that is paved with various challenges and complexity, especially for organisations that have to run their containerised clusters within a number of different environments – from multiple data centres to private and public clouds.

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform provides you with the technology that enables you to overcome these challenges to automate, manage, and connect all stages of an application lifecycle with the power of automation. With Red Hat Ansible, an organisation’s IT team can create value-adding apps and software easily and at scale, no matter your platform. The reason being is that the automation it delivers can:

• Eliminate mundane manual processes that accompany the software delivery process.
• Ensure adequate and on-time provisioning of resources.
• Avoid capacity overspending.
• Accelerate DevOps.
• Enable easier growth planning.

Organisations looking to automate their container deployments can use Ansible Operator, a tool to package, deploy and maintain Kubernetes native applications and ease the move towards a cloud-native infrastructure.

With Ansible as a base, an organisation can go full-steam ahead with its Kubernetes operations, as Ansible enables better management and automation of Kubernetes clusters. It also allows the business to scale its containerised applications easily and seamlessly—and whenever and wherever you need them the most, providing advantages such as:

• Lower barrier to entry.
• Faster iterations.
• A powerful Ansible ecosystem.

Additionally, Ansible Operator is specifically designed to enable an organisation’s applications to run as designed, constantly watching and responding to cluster resources for optimum performance every time, all the time. All these benefits can be realised easily and conveniently with Ansible Operator’s simplified deployment, management, and operations. It simplifies things significantly by stripping away using Operator SDK, the complexities of writing an operator, which requires expert-level knowledge of Kubernetes components.

Combining Ansible and Kubernetes then minimises the skill set required to automate containers, with the former’s tried and tested tools enabling application automation and orchestration across existing and new platforms. This, in turn, frees up an organisation’s application engineers to focus on accomplishing tasks that will add actual value to the business and boost its bottom line. And, in case issues arise, organisations can rely on Ansible’s vibrant communities to address said issues.

To find out more about how Red Hat Ansible’s automation capabilities can do wonders for your operations, not just in terms of containerised deployments but on a much wider scale, take this intelligent assessment and get a free personalised report.

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