Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

Deploy consistent, reliable automation everywhere.

Make your automation mission-critical

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform allows platform engineering and DevOps teams to create, manage, and scale automation across physical, cloud, virtual, and edge environments. With Ansible Automation Platform, you can drive consistency and manage compliance with automated workflows that span infrastructure, network components, applications, storage, security, ITSM, and more.

Create automation code using simple, YAML-based syntax supported by our full suite of Ansible features, tools, and components. Whether you’re new to Ansible, a seasoned expert, an IT operations engineer, or a Python developer, the resources you'll find here will help simplify, accelerate, and streamline the Ansible content creation process and boost your productivity.

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Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 available now

Building on the foundation of its next-generation container-based architecture, Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 introduces many new features and capabilities that deliver simpler, more secure automation at scale.

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Key features of Platform 2.5

Unified user interface

AAP 2.5 introduces a new, unified user interface. This interface allows you to access RBAC for both the automation controller and Event-Driven Ansible. Additionally, the automation controller, Event-Driven Ansible, and Automation Hub are all integrated into this single UI, bringing together all your favorite automation tools in one centralized location.

Containerized platform installation

Starting with AAP 2.5, three fully tested on-premise deployment models are available: the RPM-based installer, the operator, and the newly added containerized installer. The containerized installer provides the same platform functionality as the other AAP deployment options and is optimized for environments where ease of installation and a minimal footprint are essential.

Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed with IBM watsonx Code Assistant

Ansible Lightspeed with watsonx Code Assistant integrates artificial intelligence with your Ansible automation. Designed to be accessed via Ansible VSCode extension, it allows users to accept and run recommended code directly in their code editing environment while creating Ansible playbooks. Click here to learn more.

Ansible Automation Platform on edge and public cloud

Ansible Automation Platform for edge

Edge automation with Ansible Automation Platform takes IT automation out of the datacenter and into edge devices and workloads that are actually being automated. Many devices are in use at remote locations, where there may not be IT staff available to maintain and configure them. Ansible Automation Platform can help you centrally automate the provisioning of devices and processes far from your infrastructure’s core.

Ansible Automation Platform on public clouds

To support cloud-native development, Ansible Automation Platform is now available on Microsoft Azure as a managed offering and on AWS and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) as a self-managed offering supported by Red Hat. These new offerings provide complete Ansible Automation Platform capabilities, including integration with native Azure, AWS, and GCP services and integrated billing for added flexibility and speed.

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Integrating Ansible into your existing IT

Red Hat understands that today’s enterprises use a wide variety of tools and vendors to manage their IT estate, and Ansible Automation Platform was designed to work seamlessly with them. Ansible Automation Platform includes hundreds of modules to support a wide variety of IT integrations. Browse integration solutions below.

Arista
Google Cloud Platform
NetApp

Atlassian
Cisco
VMWare

Amazon Web Services
ServiceNow
Windows

Azure
Juniper
IBM

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Get Involved

The Ansible open source project

Red Hat’s product development cycle has always been rooted in open source and the communities that help to steer Red Hat’s products’ direction. Like Fedora is the upstream project for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the projects listed here are the upstream versions of products that make up the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.

Ansible

Ansible developers (including community contributors) add new features, fix bugs, and update code in many different repositories in the Ansible community. The ansible/ansible repository contains the code for basic features and functions, such as copying module code to managed nodes. This code is also known as ansible-base.

AWX

AWX is the upstream project from which the Red Hat Ansible Tower offering is ultimately derived. AWX is designed to be a frequently released, fast-moving project where all new development happens.

Galaxy

Galaxy provides pre-packaged units of work known to Ansible as roles and collections. Content from roles and collections can be referenced in Ansible playbooks and immediately put to work. You'll find content for provisioning infrastructure, deploying applications, and all of the tasks you do every day.

Developer mailing list

For those who are looking to connect with other Ansible developers and collaborate on your deployments or content, please visit the developer mailing list to sign up and get started.

Level up your automation skills with the Ansible Automation Study Guide

Automation skills are in high demand as businesses look to simplify their day-to-day operations and scale infrastructure efficiently. Ansible is a powerful open source tool that makes it easy to build and operate IT automation at scale, in the cloud, hybrid cloud, and at the edge.

Download the Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) Ansible Automation Study Guide and get started on the path to delivering applications faster and in a reproducible way. This comprehensive guide walks through material from the RHCE certification exam, 90% of which covers Ansible.

Whether you’re a Linux administrator preparing for certification or just looking to advance your automation skills, this book helps you gain deep knowledge of Ansible systems that you can apply to real-world challenges.

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