3 years ago

Category: containerization, yaml, ansible, puppet

Ansible delivers simple IT automation that ends repetitive tasks and frees up DevOps teams for more strategic work. Ansible is powerful IT automation that you can learn quickly.

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform acts as the single pane of glass to automate different manual tasks in a heterogeneous cloud and virtualization environments; be it Red Hat OpenStack Platform, VMware vSphere, bare metal or the next-generation Telco cloud-native platform.

In order to achieve end-to-end automation, Ansible was also used to configure the physical Cisco routers outside of the OpenStack cluster - the Ansible Content Collection for Cisco IOS (available in Automation Hub) was used in areas such as VLAN and network interfaces configuration.

While some of these activities can be done using multiple niche toolings, it is much better and more efficient to make use of a common platform like Ansible Automation Platform due to its large ecosystem with various networking vendors, agentless nature, powerful workflows as well as easy to learn automation language (Ansible Playbooks are written in YAML).