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Effective automation tools help you to manage security by ensuring that all machines are correctly and consistently configured and patched.

Automation helps you to mitigate human error and helps to ensure that your IT infrastructure is in a consistent and 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 includes components and tools to help you develop, deploy, and manage your automation code.

An Ansible Playbook consists of one or more plays. Each play targets a set of hosts with a list of tasks that are executed in order. Playbooks also confirm whether the system is in a certain state. If the system is not in the intended state, then the Ansible Playbook sets the system in that state.

Automation content navigator (ansible-navigator) helps you develop and run your Ansible automation code.

An inventory file lists the hosts and groups that you can use in your playbook.

Automation controller is a service that helps you control, secure, and centrally manage your Ansible automation at scale.

Automation controller provides central logging and management so that you can track who ran playbooks from the control node, at what time, affecting which hosts, and the results of those runs.