Grow your organization using Red Hat and Google Cloud
Automate a wide variety of Google Cloud services and simplify complex environments using Red Hat® Ansible® Automation Platform on Google Cloud.
An enterprise automation platform—such as Red Hat® Ansible® Automation Platform—can provide significant operational improvements to organizations struggling with managing the complexity of a hybrid cloud environment.
Ansible Automation Platform integrated with Google Cloud gives your organization tools to manage your Google Cloud infrastructure. This includes provisioning instances and autoscaling, custom networks and load balancing, and managing DNS (domain name system) and cloud storage.
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is now available as a self-managed offering from the Google Cloud Marketplace so you can automate with minimal set up - and maximum flexibility.
Ansible Automation Platform and Google Cloud offer the following benefits:
Testing and continuous integration
- Use Ansible Automation Platform to launch instances in any Google Cloud zone, and configure networking infrastructure to accurately simulate real-world scenarios.
- Deploy code how you’d like: private disk images, startup scripts pointing to your own package repository, and more—all within native Ansible Playbooks.
- Tear down instances when you are done: right after a test or after a review with the team—and even keep a snapshot of the disk.
Production deployment
- Use Ansible Automation Platform and Google Cloud managed instance groups and autoscaling to ensure your application can meet the needs of its users.
- Automate the use of cross-region load balancing to have your application served by the closest availability zone.
- Restrict access to only those accounts that need to run playbooks in production.
Containers
- Automate the deployment of containers in Google’s managed container environment.
- Store and access your container images in a container registry.
- Take full control to understand and tune your cluster with autoscaling, advanced networking, and logging.
- Move at the speed of business
Automation controller uses role-based access controls (RBACs) so users only have access to Google Cloud resources (networks, systems, security groups, etc.) that they require for their job. Automation controller encrypts credentials such as Google Cloud and Secure Shell (SSH) keys so that you can delegate automation jobs to different employees without giving out the keys.
- Google is an active contributor to the Ansible community
Open source and collaboration are at the heart of the Ansible community. Upstream projects to Ansible Automation Platform are created by—and supported with—contributions from active community members to solve automation challenges and fuel enterprise innovation. Google thrives in open source, but also understands the reliability needs of its users to safely run their infrastructure. Google Engineering actively builds Ansible modules, contributes code and documentation, and helps users deliver their solutions with Google Cloud.
- Control cloud sprawl with dynamic inventory
Keeping accurate track of deployed infrastructure is a critical part of making certain security policies are always followed and systems are properly managed through their life cycles.
With Red Hat’s automation controller cloud inventory synchronization, you can know exactly what Google Cloud instances you have no matter how they were launched.
- Simplify migrations
With Ansible Automation Platform, you can use the same simple playbook language to manage your infrastructure, deploy your application, and define your application locally. Once you can repeatedly deploy that application locally, redeploying it to different infrastructures is as straightforward as defining your Google Cloud environment—and then applying your application’s playbook.
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.
