Always-on automation helps improve service resiliency and drives consistency in response to routine IT requests, freeing teams to drive business value over maintenance.
Red Hat, Inc. has announced the general availability of Event-Driven Ansible. It us a scalable and resilient solution that expands how organizations can activate automation as a reliable strategy across the hybrid cloud.
Available as part of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4, Event-Driven Ansible extends the value of existing IT investments across the enterprise, enabling IT teams to innovate more without compromising the service quality or response times necessary in modern IT environments.
According to a study commissioned by Red Hat, 451 Research, part of S&P Global Market Intelligence, event-driven automation platforms “reduce risks associated with IT infrastructure errors or degradation, conserve scarce IT resources and increase return on investments in hybrid IT architecture. It can free [IT professionals] to concentrate on crafting logic, improving application quality and accelerating the deployment of mission-critical applications.”
The report further states that event-driven technology enables enterprises to rapidly sense and respond to change, risk or opportunity and ultimately create new competitive advantages in their digital business operations. Thomas Anderson, vice president and general manager, Ansible, Red Hat said, “Event-Driven Ansible is the team member that never goes home. There’s an underlying and constant pressure for customers to innovate or risk falling behind competitors – whether it’s optimizing operations, delivering digital services, combating hiring challenges or mitigating security threats. If there’s strain in any of these areas, there’s often a ripple effect throughout budgets, staffing and business goals. Event-Driven Ansible greatly expedites IT response, eliminates the noise that can distract from key priorities, and can optimize productivity while improving satisfaction.”
Event-Driven Ansible seamlessly connects infrastructure and application observability tools with enterprise-grade Ansible automation. So when Event-Driven Ansible receives events from third-party tools, it determines the next steps and acts automatically.
Event-Driven Ansible extends existing organizational automation knowledge to these new scenarios, leaning on familiar automation concepts within Ansible Rulebooks to drive automated responses.
Event-Driven Ansible is slated for availability in June 2023 for customers using Ansible Automation Platform 2.4. For partners interested in getting involved, email ansible-partners@redhat.com for more information.
