Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform opens up new ways of deploying and exploiting Ansible, such as embedding Ansible inside applications, adding to its versatility. It also provides DevOps teams with a platform engineering approach.

Summary

Catalyst

Red Hat continues to develop Ansible Automation Platform, its IT release management automation solution. Its latest release has involved an event-driven re-architecture based on containerization. Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform offers new ways of deploying and exploiting Ansible, such as embedding Ansible inside applications, which adds to its overall versatility. The solution also implements a platform engineering approach, enabling developers to automate their operational tasks and freeing up operations staff for higher-value work.

Omdia view

To meet the challenges DevOps teams face, Red Hat’s approach is to focus on efficiency and optimization in DevOps operations. By using Ansible Automation Platform, DevOps teams can abstract tasks from an individual by using automation, enabling them to work faster. Moreover, in a typical organization, the skill competencies of DevOps team members vary, and helping organizations transfer skills from the best performers to lesser-skilled individuals is important. Having a single DevOps solution in the organization facilitates skills transfer, as everyone is using the same tool.