Automate Microsoft Windows and Active Directory with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
Consistently manage Microsoft Windows, Active Directory, and other critical IT workloads across your datacenter, clouds, and edge environments using Red Hat® Ansible® Automation Platform.
With Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, enterprises with complex, heterogeneous environments, such as those running both Windows and Linux®, can create and execute repeatable workflows that include operating systems, storage, IT service management (ITSM) platforms, networking devices, security systems, and more.
Use automation to make workflows more efficient
Creating and executing repeatable workflows using automation reduces bottlenecks and points of failure common with manual processes. It also allows organizations to consolidate disparate automation tools, helping to reduce solution sprawl. With Ansible Automation Platform, organizations can adopt a culture of collaborative automation and operate more efficiently, reduce costs, and free up time for innovation.
Centralize and control your IT infrastructure
Using Red Hat Ansible Certified Content Collections for Windows and Active Directory, you can centralize and control your IT infrastructure with a visual dashboard, role-based access control (RBAC), job scheduling, workflow creation, and integrated notifications. In addition, our RESTful application programming interface (API) and command-line interface (CLI) allow Ansible Automation Platform to be embedded in existing tools and processes.
Use Ansible Automation Platform for VMware and DevOps
Organizations use Windows to run their core infrastructure along with Active Directory as their central account management system. Windows platforms have similar requirements and automation use cases to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, including provisioning, configuration management, patching, and compliance. However, Windows teams typically manage Windows platforms with tools such as PowerShell. This approach creates isolated work and a lack of collaboration across the organization.
Automating the entire Windows life cycle can reduce complexity and repetitive, mundane tasks—and speed time to deliver business value. Flexibly maintain multiple operating systems and consolidate disparate solutions while drawing the best capabilities from both Windows and Linux. Align your teams around a common user interface, terminology, and framework to:
- Advance into event-driven automation
Event-driven automation can help teams respond automatically to changing conditions in an IT environment.
- Automate Windows at the edge of the network
Deploy, update, audit, manage, and maintain a security focus with Windows and the applications installed on the Windows Server at the edge through a single platform.
- Consolidate solutions and simplify operations
Ansible Automation Platform helps you efficiently deploy, configure, and manage Windows, Active Directory, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux along with other infrastructure systems through a single, flexible solution.
- Manage Windows and Active Directory with consistency
Use certified and supported Ansible Automation Platform content to automate application deployment with consistency on any Windows system. Also, establish Active Directory as the source of truth for Windows hosts to help build a dynamic inventory source.
- Orchestrate PowerShell scripts
Keep existing scripts and use Ansible Automation Platform to build automated workflows that connect scripts with other systems.
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.
