Get more value out of your automation investment
With Red Hat® Ansible® Automation Platform, you have everything you need to accelerate IT Ops across your enterprise. Building a comprehensive automation strategy can make your investment go even further, helping your organization reduce complexity, close skill gaps, and extend automation across teams.
Reduce complexity
We’ve heard from customers that one of the biggest hurdles they face is the sheer size and complexity of their IT environments—and the resulting tech sprawl. It’s common for teams to rely on different tools to solve their specific problems, and this incompatible technology can make it difficult to scale automation. But you don’t need to scrap your tools and start from scratch. Ansible Automation Platform works with everything—and runs everywhere.
Using Ansible Automation Platform, you can build complex workflows that weave together your existing solutions—and integrate external tools. Validated and certified content built by Red Hat and more than 170 certified partners makes it easier to connect operating systems, network devices, storage, and other technologies that span your hybrid cloud environment.
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Make the intelligence of your essential tools more actionable
With Event-Driven Ansible, you can use observability data from your tools to automate IT actions without any manual intervention from your staff. Event-Driven Ansible processes the intelligence your tools collect, determines the appropriate response based on conditional rules, then executes automated actions to address or remediate the issue.
Build a connected foundation for AI
Automation is a prerequisite for effective AI adoption. Simply put, your IT needs to be efficient and orchestrated to get the most out of new AI tools. Ansible Automation Platform creates the structural conditions for AI success by helping you build resilient infrastructure that can seamlessly scale AI workloads. It also integrates with AI tools to make your infrastructure more intelligent and responsive.
Close skill gaps
As you try to scale automation across complex environments, your teams may struggle with a common challenge: How to create and manage automation efficiently. Ansible Automation Platform’s fundamental tools and latest features can help you overcome growing skill gaps—and codify shared automation knowledge:
- Ansible Playbooks can be written easily in YAML without knowledge of a complicated coding language—and saved, shared, and reused indefinitely across your organization.
- Ansible plug-ins for Red Hat Developer Hub delivers a centralized portal experience with curated learning paths, push-button content creation, and integrated development tools to help your teams grow skills and automate faster.
- Ansible Content Collections help employees of various skill levels automate quickly with pre-built playbooks and roles.
Also, your teams can use generative AI to build entire playbooks in seconds; employ Ansible development tools to build, test, and deploy code; and upskill through an internal development portal with learning paths and templates.
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Use Ansible Lightspeed to lower the barrier to developing automation
Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed with IBM watsonx Code Assistant is a generative AI service that accepts natural-language prompts entered by a user and then produces code recommendations—including full Ansible Playbooks—built on Ansible best practices. Ansible Lightspeed helps automation content creators convert their expertise into trusted, reliable Ansible code.
Build your automation skills
With an Ansible Automation Platform subscription, you can access a number of free training resources, including technical learning paths and interactive labs that offer hands-on learning. Start by taking a skills assessment, then explore training courses to fill in your gaps—from a free Ansible Basics course to a Red Hat Learning Subscription with unlimited access to training courses.
Extend your automation
Many organizations use Ansible Automation Platform successfully in some areas of their business, but find it difficult to adopt a unified approach to automating IT Ops. In fact, in our experience, few organizations have evolved to where they need to be to get the full value from their automation investment. It’s common for application and infrastructure teams to automate Day 0 and Day 1 operations—like configuration, provisioning, and deployment—but most still rely on manual approaches to Day 2 tasks like management, maintenance, and governance.
Spreading automation to new areas is often a people challenge. Some teams might still fall back on ad-hoc solutions to deal with convoluted processes—and might be intimidated by the task of changing the way they work. Our recommended strategy is to start small, while thinking big. You can take valuable steps now—like automating your current tools and common use cases—and gradually grow to a unified approach with an automation Community of Practice (CoP) or Center of Excellence (CoE).
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Foster an automation Community of Practice
A Community of Practice (CoP) is a group of passionate individuals who share automation best practices, experiences, and successes throughout your organization. A CoP can help you expand team skills, identify new automation opportunities, and accelerate adoption across your organization. It can transform how your organization thinks about automation—and guide other teams in applying standardized approaches across projects and processes.
Start automating other use cases
Ansible Automation Platform provides comprehensive tooling, capabilities, and content to help you take on any automation use case. So if you’re seeing efficiencies in network automation, for instance, consider automating your infrastructure, IT service management (ITSM), security, or edge operations. If you need help extending your success, Red Hat Services can help you find opportunities to use repeatable methods in other parts of your organization.
Watch our executive ask-me-anything discussion
If you’d like to learn more about how to maximize your automation investment or build an automation strategy, check out this on-demand session with members of our leadership team.
