Managing Enterprise Automation with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

Automation mesh is an overlay network intended to scale and improve the distribution of work across a large and dispersed enterprise.

Automation mesh provides resilience and scalability to Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform using a combination of control nodes, hybrid nodes, hop nodes, and execution nodes.

The control plane performs functions such as synchronizing project updates and running management jobs. The execution plane executes automation on behalf of the control plane.

To add and remove nodes from automation mesh, edit the inventory file used by the installation script, and then run the installation script.

An instance group is a set of execution nodes that can run jobs, and are often used to schedule jobs on execution nodes close to the managed hosts on which those jobs automate tasks.

Instance groups can be configured by the installation script or through automation controller’s web UI.