Automate your VMware Infrastructure
Accelerate your process from development to production with Red Hat® Ansible® Automation Platform.
With automation, you can do more with what you already have. Ansible Automation Platform can help you automate your VMware infrastructure so you can deliver on business priorities and maximize your existing VMware investment.
- Use Ansible Automation Platform for VMware and DevOps
Ansible Automation Platform can bring together complicated multifaceted workflows. For example, your workflow might include a physical network, build systems such as Jenkins or Bamboo, a monitoring service, a firewall, and a load balancer. With Ansible Automation Platform, you can ensure everything is coordinated and configured exactly the right way every time by:
- Automating your existing toolset.
- Building workflows for nearly any process in your IT organization with Ansible Automation Platform’s extensive list of integrations and capabilities.
- Managing your hybrid cloud with Ansible Automation Platform’s broad support for cloud providers.
- Automate vSphere and extend capabilities of VMware Aria Suite
Out of the box, Ansible Automation Platform ships with over 50 VMware modules supporting most use cases, including:
- Managing vSphere datacenters, clusters, hosts, and guests.
- Virtual machine (VM) template and snapshot management.
- vSwitches, domain name system (DNS) settings, firewall rules, and network address translation (NAT) gateway rules.
Ansible Automation Platform also ships with integrations to support physical network devices for all leading vendors. In addition, network virtualization and security platform (NSX) modules are available for teams looking to automate network virtualization.
- Use automation to make virtualization more efficient
Many enterprise IT organizations use an operations team to manage their VMware infrastructure while another team deploys applications to this environment. Using Ansible Automation Platform with VMware allows for an efficient self-service IT model across all environments.
Ansible Automation Platform improves efficiency for:
- Teams wanting to reduce complexity. Automation controller—the control plane for Ansible Automation Platform—acts as a common tool across multiple teams.
- Operations teams, who can write Ansible Playbooks and job templates to describe environments.
- Development teams, who can build environments and deploy applications with a single button click.
- Accelerate automation efforts by sharing automation
With Ansible Automation Platform, 1 member on your team can figure out how to solve a problem and automate the solution, eliminating the problem for the rest of the team. Get the most out of your existing infrastructure by expanding automation to allow everyone to participate.
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.
