Automate infrastructure lifecycle management with Red Hat and HashiCorp Terraform
HashiCorp and Red Hat are key partners offering solutions like Terraform for infrastructure provisioning and Ansible Automation Platform for configuration management and day 2 operations. Automate workflows and ensure consistent lifecycle management across your infrastructure.
To operate at scale, your IT organization needs the capability to consistently provision infrastructure to predefined specifications. Repeatable provisioning helps you use resources efficiently while maintaining security and compliance standards. It’s also important to recognize that provisioning is just one part of the infrastructure lifecycle, and you can use additional automation tools for operations and management. Using multiple, disconnected tools for different IT automation steps can cause inconsistencies, so integrating these tools is important for maintaining efficiency and security standards.
HashiCorp Terraform is a key component for infrastructure provisioning as Infrastructure as Code, handling the Day 0 build and deployment of cloud infrastructure and services. Red Hat® Ansible® Automation Platform complements this by excelling in Configuration as Code and operational management, Day 1 and Day 2 operations, configuration management, application deployment, health checks, patching, and incident response.
With a unified toolset from provisioning to operations, you can increase your agility with automated workflows and ensure operational consistency. Prevent configuration drift, track resource state, and automatically enforce security and compliance policies.
- End-to-end infrastructure lifecycle management
Terraform handles Day 0 provisioning (Infrastructure as Code), while Ansible Automation Platform takes over for Day 1+ configuration and Day 2 operations like patching and compliance checks. This creates a seamless, automated pipeline from infrastructure creation to ongoing management.
- Unified governance across hybrid environments
By using solutions from Red Hat with HashiCorp together, organizations can enforce Policy as Code, access control, and compliance auditing and remediation consistently across on-premise and cloud infrastructure. This unified governance model reduces risk, simplifies audits, and ensures that infrastructure changes are both compliant and traceable from provisioning to decommissioning.
- Minimized risk in deployments
With Ansible Automation Platform and Terraform together, you can apply golden configurations to new or existing environments, minimizing risks caused by inconsistent configurations. With workflows for infrastructure or application deployment, you can automate ITOps workflows and simplify the management of complex environments.
- Improved visibility into Day 2 operations
With greater visibility into infrastructure configuration and management in day 2 operations, you can enhance security and resilience with automated compliance checks and remediation.
Collections are a distribution format for Ansible content that can include playbooks, roles, modules, and plugins. You can install and access the certified collections through the Red Hat Ansible Automation Hub in the Hybrid Cloud Console.
