Red Hat today announced Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform on Microsoft Azure, bringing a leading automation technology to one of the world’s top public clouds. Through the collaboration between Red Hat and Microsoft Azure, organizations now have access to a powerful solution that provides flexibility in how they adopt automation to deliver any application, anywhere, without additional overhead or complexity.
Joe Fitzgerald, vice president and general manager, Ansible Business Unit, Red Hat
Combined, the power of cloud computing and the convenience of a managed offering allow IT organizations to go from zero to automation in minutes. Microsoft and Red Hat customers don’t have to worry about deploying and configuring a solution that can address enterprise-class use cases. Instead, they can start working immediately on complex scenarios like automated OS configuration, application provisioning, network automation, infrastructure as code (IaC) and security orchestration.
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform on Azure helps IT organizations perform these challenging tasks at scale while minimizing human error. The certified integration with Azure services, co-developed by Red Hat and Microsoft, further increases the ROI of automation, allowing customers to scale their IT operations to a whole new level. These integrations include Azure compute, network and storage.
These foundational cloud services shift operational responsibility and support to Red Hat, and with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform on Azure, enterprise IT teams can achieve greater scale, speed and standardization with automation practices for their hybrid cloud. This 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.
Ansible Automation Platform is Red Hat’s standard for hybrid cloud automation. Refined for the evolving realities of computing at hybrid cloud scale, the latest version 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 customization and control that expands the boundaries of what is possible for enterprises.
Joe Fitzgerald, vice president and general manager, Ansible Business Unit, Red Hat said “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.”
Any customers interested in early access to the new Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform on Azure can sign up now. It is slated to be available for customers in early 2022.
