Management
Ansible by Red Hat
Deploy apps. Manage systems. Crush complexity.
In a complex IT environment, even the smallest tasks can take forever. Sprawling systems are hard to develop, deploy, and maintain. Business demands only increase complexity, and IT teams struggle with management, availability, and cost.
Ansible is simple, agentless IT automation technology that can improve your current processes, migrate applications for better optimization, and provide a single language for DevOps practices across your organization.
Features & benefits
Automation across IT
Repetitive tasks are automated using a simple, human-readable language that anyone in your IT organization can understand.
Tackle complex challenges
Ansible and Ansible Tower by Red Hat® are a complete automation platform capable of provisioning, deploying applications, orchestrating complex workflows, and managing the configuration of your IT systems, networks, and apps—all of which help you solve real business problems.
Reduce repetition
Ansible is extremely powerful, talking to the systems, applications, and tools you’re already using and reducing the complexity of existing environments and processes.
Get started simply
Ansible is agentless, so there’s no software to install on the things you’re automating. This makes it easy to get started and helps IT teams collaborate—whether their focus is networking, development, infrastructure, applications, or security.
The power of community
Ansible is the most popular automation tool in GitHub. With thousands of contributors, hundreds of modules, and many thousands of community-provided automation roles in Ansible Galaxy, you can not only learn and begin to use Ansible quickly, but benefit from community-contributed roles that will help you automate even faster. And best of all, you can trust that Ansible is backed by Red Hat, the world’s leader in open source.
Ansible and Ansible Tower by Red Hat
Ansible is:
- An open source automation platform.
- Agentless (there’s no software to install on the systems to be managed).
- Free to download and use.
Ansible offers:
- Configuration management.
- Application deployment.
- Task automation.
Ansible Tower by Red Hat is:
- A centralized API for your Ansible automation.
- A graphical user interface for Ansible.
Ansible Tower by Red Hat offers:
- A visual dashboard.
- Role-based access control.
- Job scheduling.
- Graphical inventory management.
- Real-time job status updates.
Ansible Tower by Red Hat
Mission control for Ansible
Ansible Tower by Red Hat is the best way to run Ansible in your company. Your teams can automate by centralizing and controlling Ansible infrastructure with a user interface, role-based access controls, job scheduling, and graphical inventory management. And Tower’s REST application programming interface (API) and command-line interface (CLI) make it easy to embed Tower into existing tools and processes.
Automation for everyone
Tower lets entire organizations consume and access automation regardless of their skills or ability.
And Ansible Tower is available in 3 editions—Basic, Enterprise, and Premium—so you can get the right one for your organization.
Ansible Tower dashboard
See everything going on in your environment from the moment you log in.
Get recent job activity, the number of active hosts, and alerts about hosts with problems. And you can adjust your settings to see specific jobs or timeframes.
Simple, self-service IT
Set up variables and access control to give users the ability to start playbooks based on their role.
Simplified portal mode and survey features let IT admins delegate automation job runs to users across the business. QA can create their own test environments and customer services can start up a demo.
See Ansible Tower in action
See how Ansible Tower offers:
- Role-based access control.
- Automated deployment.
- Centralized logging and auditing.
- System tracking.
Explore related resources
Webinar
What’s new in Ansible Tower 2 .2
In this 20-minute demo video, you can learn about and observe role-based access control, push-button deployment, and centralized logging and auditing for Ansible Playbooks. Also, hear more about technologies that are new to version 2 like system tracking and remote command execution.
Video
Getting started with Ansible
Learn about Ansible technology and what it can do. This video demonstrates the basics of using Ansible and Ansible language, as well as information about Ansible Tower by Red Hat and our content hub, Ansible Galaxy.
Whitepaper
How to do DevOps without leaving legacy behind
Modernize software development and IT operations while still maintaining critical applications on legacy infrastructure.
Webinar Training
Introduction to Ansible
In this instructional video, learn Ansible fundamentals from the ground up. Follow along with an Ansible support engineer as she introduces basic playbooks, writing roles, and using Ansible Tower and documentation.
Whitepaper
Continuous integration and delivery with Ansible
Continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) requires automation, orchestration, and tooling. Ansible is an easy way to get there.
Seamless product integration
Combine products to build your ideal solution
Thanks to open standards, Red Hat products work well together and with products from many other vendors, so you can configure your IT environment the way you need it.
See how our products work together to solve business problems
More to learn
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