Automate Google Cloud with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
Overview
Red Hat® Ansible® Automation Platform provides significant operational improvements to enterprises struggling to manage the complexity of a hybrid cloud environment. Organizations that rely on Google Cloud as part of such an environment will see a number of benefits from Ansible Automation Platform.
The benefits of hybrid cloud automation
Cost efficiency: Cloud sprawl can lead to bloated cloud costs and unused resources. Automation works to ensure no unused instances or resources remain active.
Operational efficiency: Engineers have more time available to innovate and create value when automation takes care of the infrastructure and resource management tasks that would otherwise be part of their responsibilities.
Improved governance: Automation reduces the need for manual intervention by ensuring that any resources and processes used follow all compliance and security requirements.
Automate Google Cloud with Ansible Automation Platform
With access to the large ecosystem of Red Hat Ansible Certified Content Collections, organizations can connect multiple platforms and make their existing manual processes repeatable, scalable, and automated. These transformed processes will translate across any IT environment—including Google Cloud—from the datacenter to edge devices.
By using the Ansible Automation Platform workflow template tool—and its extensive library of certified content for Google Cloud automation—multiple playbooks can be connected in a simple visual designer to automate management of key areas of Google Cloud. This integrated solution allows HashiCorp Terraform to be used for infrastructure deployment while Ansible Automation Platform handles configuration and Day 2 management.
Table 1. Automating Google Cloud with Ansible Automation Platform
Feature | Details |
Set up instances with Google Compute Engine | Automate the creation and management of Google Compute Engine instances and ensure that security and compliance standards are checked and followed. This supports infrastructure visibility, cloud migration, and infrastructure optimization use cases. Ansible Automation Platform also integrates with HashiCorp Terraform for infrastructure deployment. |
Set up storage with Google Cloud Storage | Automate the creation and management of Google Cloud Storage buckets and the objects within them in Google Cloud. This supports cloud operations, optimization, and data backup use cases. |
Manage AI services on Google Cloud | AI workloads can be deployed and managed on Google Cloud with Ansible Automation Platform. This includes deploying Red Hat AI workloads to Google Cloud and managing Vertex AI services. Integrating automation coding assistant (formerly Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed) with Google Gemini on Vertex AI simplifies building automation for a Google Cloud environment. |
Automate Google Cloud health checks | Google Cloud health checks can be implemented into an automated workflow to track resource back-end health—including load balancer backends, traffic director backends, and more—and trigger any needed remediation workflows. This supports scaling, load balancing, and system health use cases. |
Automate management of Google Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) | Automate the configuration and management of Google VPCs and coordinate networks to ensure they are accessible across cloud and on-premise environments. As part of an automated workflow, add and manage firewalls for Google VPCs to support compliance and security. |
Automate security and compliance with integrations | Ansible Automation Platform integrates with Google Cloud and third-party security and compliance tools—while also allowing organizations to implement their own processes—to automate the management of users, access controls, and policy controls. |
Check out the Google Cloud guide to get started or learn about Red Hat Ansible Certified Content Collection for Google Cloud.
The value of an Ansible Automation Platform subscription
Ansible Automation Platform is available as a self-managed offering from the Google Cloud Marketplace, ready to be deployed on Google Cloud. This offering is supported by Red Hat and provides the complete Ansible Automation Platform, including the full Red Hat Ansible Content Collection for Google Cloud, as well as integrations with many Google Cloud services. For full details, visit Ansible Automation Platform on Google Cloud.
- Enterprise support: Red Hat provides premium support for this offering—meaning organizations have unlimited 24x7 access to Red Hat’s network of experienced engineers.
- Integrated billing: Integrated Google Cloud billing gives organizations full visibility into their costs with a single bill and allows organizations with existing spend agreements with Google Cloud to count the cost of this offering toward that spend agreement.
Get started with Ansible Automation Platform on Google Cloud
Try cloud automation on Ansible Automation Platform with Red Hat’s self-paced labs, or visit Google Cloud Marketplace to learn how to purchase an Ansible Automation Platform subscription.
