Use Cases

COMPLETE IT AUTOMATION Ansible seamlessly unites workflow orchestration with configuration management, provisioning, and application deployment in one easy-to-use and deploy platform.

Regardless of where you start with Ansible, you’ll find our simple, powerful and agentless automation platform has the capabilities to solve your most challenging problems.

Integrations

Ansible includes hundreds of modules to support a wide variety of IT integrations, including:

Automate Anything Your IT environment is much more than just a collection of servers and configurations. Ansible was designed and built to ensure that everyone in your IT organization can start automating their tasks in ways that were just not possible before.

In order to be effective, everyone in the IT organization needs to play a part in automating their view of the environment. The benefits are clear: by automating the repetition out of their daily lives, IT team members are able to focus on more interesting value-added tasks.

Infrastructure Regardless of who your infrastructure vendors are, Ansible can help you automate all your infrastructure from bare metal to virtualization - all without having to expose credentials, or teach your users the specific UIs and APIs for each provider.

Virtualization Ansible supports industry-leading virtualization platforms that you’re already using today, including:

VMware Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) Libvirt Xenserver Vagrant

Operating Systems Ansible supports the operating systems that keep your business running, including:

Linux (RHEL, CentOS, Fedora, Ubuntu, and others) Windows and Windows Server UNIX

Networks It’s time that the network teams got to participate in the DevOps revolution. Ansible brings its simplicity and agentless architecture to network automation in a way that enables IT organizations to finally include network teams in DevOps initiatives while simultaneously gaining better control and understanding of how their existing networks are configured and managed.

Ansible supports a wide variety of network providers today, including:

A10 Arista Cisco Cumulus Networks Dell F5 BigIP Hewlett Packard Enterprise (OpenSwitch) Juniper Nokia Palo Alto Networks and others

Containers IT organizations are looking for ways to containerize all the things. Ansible can help by standardizing, controlling, and automating the build process for containers, as well as ensuring there’s a sane and predictable (as well as supportable) lifecycle from developer workstation to test to QA to production. Ansible takes the guesswork out of the likely question: “Where did that container come from, and what’s it running?” Today, that means building and managing Docker, and LXC images, but also the next big thing none of us have even heard of yet.

Ansible supports containers, including:

Ansible Container Docker Linux Containers (LXC)

Cloud Ansible has deep and broad capabilities across the cloud ecosystem– on or off-prem, or a bit of both, Ansible can seamlessly automate in an increasingly hybrid world.

Bring us your clouds!

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Microsoft Azure Cloudstack OpenStack Digital Ocean Google Cloud Platform Linode ProfitBricks Rackspace

DevOps tools Ansible enables the spirit of DevOps by connecting teams and tools to automate the workflows in your day-to-day operations.

Ansible supports integrations across the DevOps toolchain; including the areas of development, integration/test, deployment and monitoring/analytics. Here is a sample of our capabilities:

Development: Github, Atlassian Bitbucket Pipelines, Gitlabs, Vagrant…

Integration/Test: Jenkins, Travis CI, Teamcity…

Deployment: Cloud Providers, Containers, ServiceNow, Systems, Virt Platforms…

Monitoring/Analytics: Splunk, AppDynamics, Dynatrace, LogicMonitor, InfluxDB…

Why Ansible? Working in IT, you’re likely doing the same tasks over and over. What if you could solve problems once and then automate your solutions going forward? Ansible is here to help.

COMPLEXITY KILLS PRODUCTIVITY

WHEN YOU AUTOMATE, YOU ACCELERATE

TEAM IMPACT Save time and be more productive Eliminate repetitive tasks Fewer mistakes & errors Improve collaboration and job satisfaction

ENTERPRISE IMPACT Overcome complexity More resources for innovation Increase accountability and compliance

ANSIBLE LOVES THE REPETITIVE WORK YOUR PEOPLE HATE No one likes repetitive tasks. With Ansible, IT admins can begin automating away the drudgery from their daily tasks. Automation frees admins up to focus on efforts that help deliver more value to the business by speeding time to application delivery, and building on a culture of success. Ultimately, Ansible gives teams the one thing they can never get enough of: time. Allowing smart people to focus on smart things.

Ansible is a simple automation language that can perfectly describe an IT application infrastructure. It’s easy-to-learn, self-documenting, and doesn’t require a grad-level computer science degree to read. Automation shouldn’t be more complex than the tasks it’s replacing.

Ansible is SIMPLE Get productive quickly -Human readable automation -No special coding skills needed -Tasks executed in order

POWERFUL Orchestrate the app lifecycle -App deployment -Configuration management -Workflow orchestration

AGENTLESS Predictable, reliable and secure -Agentless architecture -Uses OpenSSH and WinRM -No agents to exploit or update

USE CASES

Provisioning Configuration Management App Deployment Continuous Delivery Security & Compliance Orchestration

INTEGRATIONS

Infrastructure Networks Containers Cloud DevOps Tools