Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
Automate IT processes across entire systems with a growing library of ready-to-use playbooks
Join the growing IT automation market
IT automation has grown past being the finishing touch on well-defined systems. It has become the place to innovate newly defined processes. Consider what’s possible as part of the growing IT automation market.
US $699 billion
2030 total addressable net-new Network-as-a-Service revenues
Telecommunications providers can capitalize on the estimated 25% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) over the next 5 years—offerings that can be scaled and optimized by network automation platforms.1.
58%
of leaders experience complex automation implementation
Among 900 IT decision makers and influencers, more than half don’t use automation platforms due to implementation complexity—a valuable opportunity for system integrators.2
US $15 billion
2029 worldwide IT automation market revenue forecast
IDC estimates worldwide IT automation and configuration management software to exceed US$15 billion in revenue by 2029—with a nearly 10% CAGR over the next 5 years.3
Current product opportunities
Expand your products’ capabilities, integrate customers’ disparate systems, or create new service pipelines with Red Hat® Ansible® Automation Platform. Become an official Red Hat partner to take advantage of opportunities that can improve your tools and expand your offerings.
Build Event-Driven Ansible plug-ins
Remove the need for manual response by building certified Event-Driven Ansible plug-ins and including them in your products. Certify these if/then statements as part of your own official Ansible collection and start automatically responding to common user management issues and tasks.
Best for build partners.
Enable AI-assisted automation
Turn intelligence into action by letting Ansible Automation Platform respond to artificial intelligence (AI) findings. Sell and integrate it for customers, or build it into your own AI solution for IT operations (AIops).
Best for build and resell partners.
Guide uses from patchwork systems to the platform
Most businesses incorporate equal distributions of open source and paid automation software.1 Integrate an official Ansible Automation Platform subscription into customers’ patchwork automation solutions built using the Ansible open source project.
Best for resell partners.
See what partners have created with Ansible Automation Platform
Ansible Automation Platform includes a partner-specific user interface that helps partners build upon or embed the platform into their own solutions—bringing additional functionalities, custom dashboards, unique interfaces, and more to you and your customers.
Nvidia nvue Ansible collection
More than a dozen modules to automate NVIDIA devices managed by NVIDIA User Experience—the control panel for the company’s operating systems.
F5
Automate F5 with Ansible Automation Platform to improve application delivery, security, and compliance through end-to-end automation and native application programming interface integration.
Hashicorp Terraform
Modules that work together to integrate Terraform into automation workflows. Extract specific data from Terraform infrastructure so Ansible can dynamically configure applications and other services.
Red Hat collaborates with Intel to deliver open source industrial automation to the manufacturing shop floor
The partnership will lead to a new industrial edge platform—a holistic solution incorporating real-time shop floor control, artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML), and full IT management controls.
What Red Hat partners are saying
“Our platform delivers the answer to Event-Driven Ansible, and it triggers the next action, informs the right people, creates an incident, carries out the remediation, and then feeds that information back to us to close the loop”
Bonifaz Kaufmann, Vice President Automations, Dynatrace
“The Axcelinno Rapid Start for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is a great entry point for our customers and a great opportunity for them to see the success we can deliver.”
Farhan Hussain, General Manager, Axcelinno
“Ansible is now at the heart of our hybrid cloud offerings, enabling service automation and integration across multiple third parties to create slick, end-to-end solutions.”
Talor Holloway, CTO, Advent One
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Boyle, Anna, and Zoey Yin. Simplifying NaaS for easier enterprise consumption: Capturing the USD100bn opportunity. STL Partners. January 2025.
Lehmann, Carl. The value of a unified IT automation platform. S&P Global Market Intelligence, 451 Research. March 2025.
Elliot, Stephen, and Shannon Kalvar. Worldwide IT Automation and Configuration Management Software Forecast, 2025–2029. IDC. June 2025.
