Red Hat’s Ansible automation platform is coming to Microsoft Azure, allowing companies to easily automate across hybrid clouds, IoT and edge deployments.
Red Hat, Inc., the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform on Microsoft Azure. The platform builds on Red Hat’s standard for hybrid cloud automation that has been refined for the evolving realities of computing at hybrid cloud scale. The collaboration between Red Hat and Microsoft delivers a solution that provides customers flexibility in how they adopt automation to deliver any application, anywhere, without additional overhead or complexity.
The decade of automation
“We believe that this is the decade of automation. Just like in other domains, from manufacturing to logistics, automation is the one technology that enables the operational scalability necessary to build and operate at hybrid cloud-scale. Customers around the globe are realizing this and are exploring many different options. But the automation needs of any organization go well beyond simply creating and destroying workloads or infrastructure.
“If you are in any operation team focused on continuous IT governance, automated infrastructure provisioning alone will not be enough. Ansible Automation Platform gives DevOps and ITOps the ability to automate and govern at scale every aspect of the application lifecycle, but it also gives NetOps, SecOps, and FinOps the ability to automate the multitude of tasks that must be executed irrespective of application delivery,” said Joe Fitzgerald, vice president and general manager, Ansible Business Unit, Red Hat
The power of cloud computing and the convenience of a managed offering allow IT organisations to quickly automate and scale in their cloud. Red Hat and Microsoft customers can deploy and configure a solution to address enterprise-class use cases. IT teams can start working immediately on complex scenarios like automated OS configuration, application provisioning, network automation, infrastructure as code (IaC) and security orchestration.
Overcoming barriers
According to an IDC report, “virtually (97%) of organisations see major barriers to their ability to effectively employ automation across their enterprise. Through 2023, many IT automation efforts will be delayed or will fail outright due to underinvestment in creating IT/Sec/DevOps teams with the right tools and skills. The end goal is to deliver consistent, coherent and cooperative automation at scale.”
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform on Azure helps IT organisations perform these challenging tasks at scale while minimising user error. The integration with Azure services, including Azure compute, network and storage can further increase the ROI of automation, allowing customers to scale their IT operations.
The greater speed, scale and standardisation offered by the Platform helps to remove the infrastructure maintenance and operational burden from IT teams, enabling them to focus purely on delivering automation strategies for a more efficient, flexible and scalable business.
The latest version of Ansible Automation Platform added self-contained automation capabilities to deploy at massive scale across hybrid clouds and edge environments, while shifting automation more deeply into the application development lifecycle. Its flexible foundation, tools, services and capabilities offer a whole new level of customisation and control that expands the boundaries of what is possible for enterprises.
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