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Operating systems automation with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
Overview
Red Hat® Ansible® Automation Platform streamlines the at-scale management of your operating systems. It expedites your processes from rapid provisioning, ongoing configuration, drift management, and deployment of related applications and infrastructure. As a highly flexible automation solution, it automates complex workflows across teams that span on-premise, cloud, and edge environments. With an intuitive interface and robust tooling, this platform supports a wide range of enterprise use cases, helping IT teams collaborate more effectively and with more time to focus on what’s next.
Automate your diverse operating systems—with one platform
Creating an enterprise-wide approach to automation means automating not only IT processes, but entire technology stacks, teams, and organizations. Ansible Automation Platform takes an automation-first approach to managing all of your infrastructure, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux®, Microsoft Windows, ITSM platforms, hypervisors, storage, virtualization, and more. It integrates with SAP S/4 HANA®, Microsoft SQL Server, virtualization technologies, ITSM tools, and over 100 industry-leading solutions, so that you can manage all of your infrastructure through a single, fully-supported platform.
No matter your operating system, consistent management and provisioning are essential to running reliable infrastructure. Organizations often see the benefits of automation with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Microsoft Windows. While capabilities differ, you can automate management on either one to reduce manual work, maintain compliance, and support innovation.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux provides a stable, security-focused, and consistent Linux operating system that supports workloads from the data center to edge locations and across hybrid cloud environments. With built-in capabilities designed for scalability, it helps teams reduce complexity, enforce system consistency, and maintain compliance across environments.
Using Ansible Automation Platform with Red Hat Enterprise Linux gives you all the benefits of enterprise automation. Whether deploying new systems, managing updates, standardizing configurations, or deploying applications, Red Hat Enterprise Linux enables efficient operations that free teams to focus on innovation instead of routine, repetitive tasks. By automating Red Hat Enterprise Linux—a strong foundation for enterprise infrastructure—you can manage your estate with speed, consistency, and control.
See how it works
Discover how to automate Linux with Ansible Automation Platform
Microsoft Windows
Ansible Automation Platform contains modern tools for managing and automating Microsoft Windows environments. It reduces administrative overhead, improves system reliability, and enhances security posture. Whether it’s managing patching, configurations, or integrations with ITSM and active directory services, automating these processes enables teams to operate more efficiently and focus on delivering value.
Windows administrators can use Ansible Automation Platform to manage and automate their systems without needing to know how to use a Linux terminal.
Features and benefits
Ansible Automation Platform offers the following benefits to any use case or operating system.
Ease complexity
Automate your operating system and related infrastructure with unified workflows. For example, you can provision a new system and enroll it in security monitoring in a single workflow.
Control costs
Consolidate on a single, flexible platform that assumes the work of many disparate solutions, so you can be more efficient and adapt to change faster.
Respond quickly
Event-driven automation helps to monitor real-time changes, reduce downtime, and deliver fast, consistent responses—no matter where or when they occur.
Scale faster
Automate changes across all your server and operating system volumes. Use dynamic inventory to select the right group for each automated action to complete the work in much less time.
Build collaboration
Connect your DevOps and Infrastructure as Code teams by using a common platform to promote the sharing of automation content and best practices, with features to jumpstart the creation of new automation.
Manage compliance
Automate security patching to meet requirements and limit downtime. Apply automation policies before runtime to maintain control and build operational confidence.
Red Hat named the leader in infrastructure automation platforms
Forrester Research named Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform the leader in The Forrester WaveTM: Infrastructure Automation Platforms, Q4, 2024—with the highest score in the strategy category.
Customer success stories
The University of Sussex improved security and engineer productivity by adopting automation and migrating to Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Square Enix addressed infrastructure performance challenges by replacing its existing Linux operating system with Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
The AIA Group uses Ansible Automation Platform to eliminate manual provisioning and configuration processes, reduce service time to market, and accelerate migration to the cloud.
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