Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
CHALLENGE
Manual IT operations do not scale
As infrastructure grows across servers, cloud environments, networks and applications, repetitive IT tasks can quickly consume valuable time. Provisioning, configuration changes, software deployment and patching are often handled through a combination of manual processes, scripts and different tools.
This makes it harder to maintain consistency across environments and increases the risk of configuration drift, human error and security issues. Even routine changes can become time-consuming when they need to be repeated across hundreds or thousands of systems.
To operate efficiently at scale, organisations need a more consistent way to automate recurring processes without making automation itself difficult to manage.
SOLUTION
Automate repetitive IT tasks at scale
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform provides a common platform for automating IT processes across infrastructure, cloud, networks, security and applications.
Automation is defined through human-readable YAML playbooks, making recurring processes reusable and easier to standardise across teams and environments. Organisations can automate tasks such as infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, software deployment, patching and complex workflows instead of performing them manually.
By bringing automation into a central platform, teams can create more consistent operations, reduce manual effort and extend automation across the organisation as requirements grow. Ansible Automation Platform also provides centralised capabilities for managing, executing and governing automation at enterprise scale.
I’m completely sold. I use Ansible for ‘everything’. It has revolutionised patching for me.
My first night of patching in November took almost five hours. Yesterday’s patching took me 20 minutes and 38 seconds.
Rolf-Arne Schulze, NIBIO
After Redpill Linpro helped implement Ansible and AWX in January 2021.
About Redpill Linpro
Redpill Linpro is the leading provider of Open Source services and solutions in the Nordics.
With around 300 specialists across Sweden, Norway and Denmark, we help organisations build, integrate and operate secure and sustainable digital solutions across cloud, integration, data and open source technologies.
HOW REDPILL LINPRO CAN HELP
Redpill Linpro helps organisations introduce and scale Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform – turning repetitive IT processes into consistent, reusable automation.
Together with you, we help:
Identify and automate the right processes
Find where automation creates the most value and turn repetitive tasks such as provisioning, configuration, patching and deployment into reusable workflows.
Build and scale your automation platform
Design and implement Ansible Automation Platform and establish structured playbooks, workflows and governance that can be shared across teams and environments.
Operate and evolve your automation
Get ongoing expertise and support to improve existing automation, introduce new use cases and keep your platform reliable as your infrastructure and requirements grow.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Ansible is an open-source IT automation technology used to automate tasks such as provisioning, configuration management, application deployment, patching and orchestration. Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform builds on Ansible with capabilities for managing and scaling automation across an enterprise.
Both can be used as part of an Infrastructure as Code strategy, but they typically serve different purposes. Terraform specialises in provisioning and managing infrastructure, while Ansible is commonly used for configuration, software deployment and orchestration across systems. They can also be combined as part of the same automation workflow.
Yes. Ansible Automation Platform can automate patching and other security and compliance changes across systems, helping organisations replace repetitive manual processes with consistent automation.
Yes. Ansible can automate infrastructure and operational processes across datacentres, public and private clouds, networks and hybrid environments, allowing organisations to apply more consistent automation across different platforms.
Talk to an expert
Ansible helps teams automate infrastructure, configuration, and application deployment. If you would like to see what that could look like in your organisation, Kirsti can show you.
Kirsti Stien
Region Manager DevOps Oslo