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2025 has been a year of innovation in automation for customers of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. Here are just a few stories from customers that exemplify how Ansible Automation Platform has helped organizations turn automation into a foundation for long-term success.Automation as the foundation for enterprise growthIn 2025, automation evolved from a tactical tool into the foundational architecture for organizations to scale, operate, and adapt. Customers adopted Ansible Automation Platform as a centralized automation control plane, integrating it with other platforms like Red Hat Enterp

Looking back, 2025 was a year of significant milestones for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. From a game-changing presence at Red Hat Summit to the launch of Ansible Automation Platform 2.6, the year was filled with a number of exciting new features and momentum!Automation synergy: Red Hat + HashiCorpRed Hat was acquired by IBM in 2019, and in 2025 IBM announced its acquisition of HashiCorp. This made a powerful statement on the future of enterprise automation and hybrid cloud management. Together with HashiCorp's Terraform for Infrastructure-as-Code and Vault for secret management, and An

The systems running an organization's infrastructure and applications are interconnected, creating an environment of controlled chaos where events in one area can ripple unpredictably through others. Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform features Event-Driven Ansible as an automation mechanism for reacting to these ripples. Event-Driven Ansible listens to external event or alert sources so you can design automated responses for these events, enabling faster response to problems with consistency and accuracy. A foundational use case that can be used almost anywhere to provide a great deal of valu

Many organizations are considering generative AI (gen AI) as a means of reducing the time employees spend filing IT requests and the time IT teams spend closing these requests. To this end, we’ve created an it-self-service-agent AI quickstart that shows you how to automate IT processes within your organization using agentic AI on Red Hat OpenShift AI. This AI quickstart provides a reusable framework—including request routing, agent services, knowledge bases, an integration dispatcher, and an evaluation framework—that you can apply across multiple IT processes. While we're demonstrating a

Automation isn’t just an option, it’s a necessity. Organizations managing complex infrastructures often face a divide between Windows management tools and their broader automation strategy to streamline operations, reduce manual overhead, and ensure consistency across environments. That’s where the Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager (MECM) Certified Collection for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform comes in, offering a bridge between MECM and automation.What Is the MECM Red Hat Ansible Certified Collection?The Red Hat Ansible Certified Collection for MECM, formerly known as System

If you’re a platform engineer or SRE, you know that managing infrastructure and efficiently managing it are two very different things. You’ve been able to run virtual machines (VMs) alongside containers in Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for a while now. But as your fleet grows, finding that one specific VM acting up in a haystack of clusters can feel like a scavenger hunt you didn't sign up for.Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.15 redefines your daily workflow instead of just adding features. We’ve taken the capabilities you rely on and made them easier to use so

Virtualization has been an evolving part of ITOps over the past several years. A variety of applications run on virtualization technology and many companies are assessing their options for new platforms to run these critical workloads. Goals include cost optimization, protection of budget, identifying advantages in new platforms, and modernization. Red Hat and Cisco have teamed to provide a comprehensive computing platform for virtualization. While the focus of this article is virtualization, this platform can also support other types of computing. It combines the following solutions to deliv

The Argo CD Agent is now Generally Available with the release of Red Hat OpenShift GitOps 1.19. Organizations using Kubernetes and OpenShift have widely adopted the GitOps methodology to manage clusters and applications, with Argo CD being the leading open source GitOps solution on Kubernetes. However, organizations adopting Argo CD have faced challenges selecting an appropriate Argo CD deployment model. There's often a choice between prioritizing scalability across multiple clusters or to implement centralized GitOps management. The Argo CD Agent for OpenShift GitOps solves this challenge by

Managing a hybrid environment can feel like a balancing act between disparate sets of fragmented tools used for all the different platforms you interact with. If that sounds familiar, then your team needs integrated management across your diverse hybrid infrastructure. With Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console, you can manage your public cloud instances, on-premise virtualization, and security compliance all in one dashboard.The Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console was built to solve fragmentation by unifying the management of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Red Hat OpenShift, and Red Hat Ansible Automation

The complex risks facing modern IT environments make IT security a strategic imperative, not a back-end detail. Furthering this is cloud computing, which serves as the foundation of the AI economy, meaning that enterprises and nations require greater control, transparency, and assurance over data location and protection. Trust has become not just a technical question, but a matter of national policy, corporate strategy, and even societal resilience.At the same time, the explosion of AI and machine learning (ML) workloads is reshaping infrastructure requirements. But these shifts pose a complex