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Ansible (Red Hat)

About Ansible (Red Hat)

Ansible is an open source IT automation engine. The engine is free to use. Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform combines multiple upstream projects into a unified platform for automation. The platform builds on the open source project to create an automation experience for teams. Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is described as implementing automation across an enterprise.

Products

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform: Combines upstream Ansible projects into a unified platform for automation.
Ansible Core: Covers the Ansible programming language, automation tooling, and architectural framework.
Event-Driven Ansible: Subscribes to event sources to scale automation and IT operations.
Developer tools: Tooling to develop and test Ansible content.

Used for

Automating provisioning
Automating configuration management
Deploying applications
Automating the provisioning and maintenance of Kubernetes and OpenShift clusters
Managing VMWare infrastructure including vSphere, Datacenters, Clusters and Virtual Machines

Who it is for

Ansible users
Ansible customers
Ansible partners
Ansible vendors

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How to evaluate Infrastructure as Code

This is how the CIOPages Research Team evaluates this category. It is not an assessment of Ansible (Red Hat). It comes from our Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Platforms buyer guide.

25%

Language & Authoring Model

Declarative DSL (HCL) vs. general-purpose language (TypeScript, Python, Go, C#); readability for reviewers vs. expressive power (loops, conditionals, abstractions); module/component reuse and registry maturity; testing and IDE support; learning curve for the people who will actually write infrastructure

20%

State Management & Drift

Where state is stored, remote-state locking to prevent concurrent-apply corruption, state encryption and secret handling, plan/preview fidelity, drift detection and continuous reconciliation, import of existing resources, and blast-radius controls on apply

20%

Policy-as-Code & Governance

OPA/Rego and Sentinel support, pre-apply guardrails (block non-compliant resources, mandatory tags, region/cost limits), RBAC and SSO/SAML/SCIM, audit logging, approval workflows, and integration with cost-estimation and security scanning in the pipeline

15%

Provider Ecosystem & Portability

Breadth and quality of providers/resource coverage, day-one support for new cloud services, multi-cloud and on-prem reach, third-party SaaS providers, and how locked-in the resulting code is to one vendor or one cloud

10%

Collaboration & Workflow (TACOS)

Run orchestration and queuing, VCS/PR-driven plans, stack dependencies, self-service environments with TTL/ephemeral teardown, drift remediation workflows, and whether you self-host in CI (Atlantis-style) or buy a managed platform

10%

Licensing & Project Health

License (open-source MPL/Apache vs. source-available BUSL vs. proprietary), governance and ownership after recent M&A, release cadence and roadmap, community/foundation backing (CNCF, Linux Foundation), and how easily you could exit or fork

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Quick Facts

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CategoryDevOps & Platform Engineering

SubcategoryInfrastructure as Code

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