Red Hat Delivers on Vision to Automate the Enterprise with Ansible
Red Hat integrates Ansible automation into management solutions and
shares plans for Ansible integration across product portfolio
BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
RED HAT SUMMIT 2017--Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE:RHT), the
world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced its
vision for the automated enterprise powered by Ansible, the leading
simple, powerful, and agentless open source IT automation framework.
Ansible is a game-changing open source automation technology for the
management of IT environments at scale. Designed to be simple to adopt,
use, and understand, Ansible has become the world’s most popular open
source IT automation technology, with more than 2,400 unique
contributors, nearly 30,000 commits to the upstream Ansible open source
project, and a user base that spans industries and the globe. Red
Hat acquired Ansible in 2015, with the aim of helping users drive
down the cost and complexity of deploying and managing both cloud-native
and traditional applications across hybrid cloud environments. With
Ansible, organizations can make the automated enterprise a reality.
Welcome to the automated enterprise revolution
Automation is transforming industries and delivering exciting
innovations for businesses and consumers. For example, automobiles have
moved beyond discrete automation in areas such as navigation systems,
cruise control and lane sensors to more comprehensive, holistic
automation that can replace the driver entirely via self-driving
cars. Retailers are moving to automated distribution centers,
changing the supply chain to help create a competitive edge. The
consumer electronics industry is moving beyond siloed smart appliances,
lighting, alarm systems, and thermostats to whole home automation
solutions.
Meanwhile, across industries, there is an ever-increasing pressure to
deliver innovation faster and IT architectures are changing to adopt the
latest technologies that can keep them competitive, while still
maintaining necessary legacy systems - often resulting in complex,
disparate systems that can span private cloud, public cloud and
on-premise. The complexities of modern, multi-cloud environments can be
staggering and without automation, managing the environments that drive
innovation can be impossible. However, to date, automation has generally
been used discretely within enterprises, with a different tool for each
management domain, narrow in scope and tactically used by siloed teams
dramatically limiting it’s potential and value.
Gartner commented on the mandate for organizations to implement
organization-wide automation, saying: “Managing growth and taking cost
out at the same time is a requirement for digital business, but it’s not
easy for IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders to achieve.
Automation is the answer. The benefits are compelling – automation
improves accountability, efficiency and predictability, while reducing
cost, variability and risk. So why aren’t more organizations further
down the automation path? Until now automation has been deterministic,
where discrete manual steps or processes were automated to lower costs
and improve quality of service. While this approach has provided
incremental benefits, it doesn’t handle massive scale or dramatically
reduce costs.”1
Red Hat’s vision for enterprise-wide automation
Red Hat believes automation is an essential and strategic component of
modernization and digital transformation and that modern, dynamic
environments need a new type of management solution that can improve
speed, scale and stability across the enterprise IT environment. A
growing number of organizations around the world are standardizing on
Ansible as their automation framework. By bringing Ansible automation
across its portfolio - including Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat
OpenStack Platform, Red Hat OpenShift, Red Hat Storage, and its
management offerings, Red Hat will be able to deliver strategic
automation technology to enterprises.
Bringing this vision to life, Red Hat announced new innovations in its
management portfolio, integrating Ansible automation to help enterprises
transform their IT operations by creating a system of enterprise-wide
automation, allowing IT staff to free up from remedial tasks to focus on
innovation that can create value:
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With Ansible automation integration in Red
Hat Insights, its predictive analytics and actionable
intelligence platform, Red Hat is enabling automated resolution of
critical security risks by dynamically creating Ansible Playbooks.
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The latest version of Red
Hat CloudForms takes an industry-first Ansible
automation-based approach to multi-cloud management, natively
supporting Ansible Playbooks to make it easier to deploy IT services
across clouds, enabling users to automate a wide range of policies and
processes with no coding or scripting required.
In the coming months, Red Hat plans to bring Ansible inside even more
areas of its portfolio to help simplify and automate enterprise IT. Red
Hat Training for Ansible, including the Red Hat Certificate of Expertise
in Ansible Automation, is available to customers globally and we have
seen strong interest in these offerings. Today, there are Red Hat
Certified Professionals in Ansible Automation in more than 40 countries.
And, Red Hat Consulting is working with customers to help them
successfully adopt and integrate Ansible automation to create and
standardize centralized automation practices that add business value and
build a strong foundation for DevOps.
Supporting Quote
Joe Fitzgerald, vice president, Management, Red Hat
“By
many metrics, Ansible has been a huge disruptor in automation and has
the potential to take enterprise IT by storm by becoming a de facto
standard for automation. There are enterprises that have standardized on
Ansible technology for their automation, and we believe it is the start
of a significant movement. By bringing native Ansible support to our
management offerings and seeking to use it across more of our portfolio,
Red Hat is uniquely helping to make the automated enterprise a reality
with the ability to automate complex, cross-domain systems through a
single technology.”
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1 Gartner, “Automation: The Next Frontier for IT,” May 18,
2016 http://www.gartner.com/smarterwithgartner/automation-the-next-frontier-for-it-2/
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