Automation
Reduce Manual Complexities with Automation
Automation refers to the use of software applications to create repeatable processes with the purpose of replacing or drastically reducing manual interaction with IT systems. Automation software works within the limits of those instructions, tools, and frameworks to carry out the tasks with little to no human intervention.
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Why Should We Automate?
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Less wasted time
Automation is key to a successful business modernization strategy. It reduces the amount of time spent on manual complexities.
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Decrease in number and frequency of errors
With automated testing, anomalies can be identified much quicker making the number and frequency of errors next to zero.
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Increase in team productivity
Automating repetitive tasks allows teams to be more productive, with significantly less time wasted on menial duties.
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Competitive Advantage
Freeing up time provides your team the ability to improve innovation and end-user experience; strategies that actually drive the business forward toward new levels of growth.
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Can extend into technologies like DevOps, containers, cloud, and more
Automation provides faster scaling and a more efficient workload while tying into additional technologies that promote modernization.
Ansible Automation POV Quick Start
Our Red Hat Ansible Automation Proof-of-Value Quick Start provides an easy entry to a proven automation practice (for the end-to-end orchestrated hybrid data centre). The offering includes expert assistance training your team, and deploying the platform as a proof-of-concept (POC) targeted to automate and deploy an initial workflow or process.
Red Hat® Ansible®: What is Ansible?
Red Hat Ansible is a popular, mature technology used by thousands of organizations globally to help them automate IT tasks such as:
- Configuration Management
- Provisioning / Infrastructure-as-Code
- Workflow orchestration / Continuous Integration (CI)
- Application Deployment / Continuous Delivery (CD)
- Life-Cycle Management
It supports multiple platforms, devices, environments and is agent less by nature.


HashiCorp Terraform: What is Terraform?
HashiCorp Terraform is a widely adopted tool for building, changing, and versioning infrastructure safely and efficiently using an Infrastructure-as-Code approach. Terraform’s sole purpose is to do a small number of things extremely well:
- Automate the provisioning of new infrastructure using best configuration practices
- Automate the on-going changes to existing infrastructure, safely
Terraform connects to wide range of infrastructure providers, like publics clouds, virtualization / container platforms, networking devices, storage, etc. to simplify automation operations. Terraform and Ansible can be – and often are – complementary to one another.

