Simplify network automation with Red Hat and Cisco
Deploy, configure, operate, scale, and integrate network infrastructure and services more quickly and efficiently with Red Hat® Ansible® Automation Platform and Cisco.
As networks grow in scope and complexity, IT teams are under pressure to do more with fewer resources. While scripting can help, it's often limited to single-use cases, difficult to scale, and challenging to maintain—ultimately adding to technical debt.
What’s needed is a unified automation solution that’s accessible to domain experts and capable of managing multivendor environments. With Red Hat and @Cisco automating key functions like network visibility reporting and audit, configuration management, and network operations, our joint solution enables a streamlined, automated NetOps approach—empowering you to simplify and transform how your network is managed.
Refer to related solutions in this Red Hat Ecosystem Catalog: 1) “Expand network automation to edge devices” and 2) “Accelerate application deployment with Red Hat and Cisco”
- Support for Cisco network and systems platforms
Cisco is a key partner for Red Hat and offers solutions across the network and IT technology stack. Together, Ansible Automation Platform and Cisco provide the ability to automate network and IT operations with efficiency, accuracy, and consistency–including the ability to respond automatically to changing IT conditions.
Ansible Automation Platform works with Cisco to automate a wide range of Cisco software-defined networking (SDN) solutions, networking devices and appliances, security firewalls, compute, and observability platforms to help you gain agility, while maintaining a security-focused operating environment.
- Build and operate automation at scale
Ansible Automation Platform is the foundation for building and operating automation services at scale, providing tools and an operational framework, in a collaborative and trusted execution environment. It offers a new approach to automating Cisco-based networks and infrastructure management, and is supported by Red Hat’s long-standing relationship with Cisco.
- Boost network security, compliance, and resilience
Automate configuration and management of Cisco infrastructure to enhance security of critical systems and data. Ansible Automation Platform provides the tools and features you need to help identify and automate response to security threats quickly and at scale. Using an event-driven approach, Ansible Automation Platform allows you to design end-to-end automated responses more quickly, reduce mean time to resolution (MTTR), and free teams from low-level repeated tasks
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.
