Automation helps you mitigate human error and ensure that your IT infrastructure is in a consistent, correct state.
Ansible is an open source automation platform that can adapt to many workflows and environments.
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is a fully supported version of Ansible that also includes a number of additional components and tools to help you develop, deploy, and manage your automation code.
Ansible can be used to manage many types of systems, including servers running Linux, servers running Microsoft Windows, and network devices.
Ansible Playbooks are human-readable text files that describe the desired state of an IT infrastructure.
Ansible connects to managed hosts using standard network protocols such as SSH, and runs code or commands on the managed hosts to ensure that they are in the state specified.
Ansible is built around an agentless architecture in which the Ansible software is only installed on a control node and in automation execution environments.
Automation content navigator (ansible-navigator) is a key tool that helps you develop and run your Ansible automation code.
Click CREATE to build all of the virtual machines needed for the classroom lab environment. This may take several minutes to complete. Once created the environment can then be stopped and restarted to pause your experience.
If you DELETE your lab, you will remove all of the virtual machines in your classroom and lose all of your progress.