Red Hat, Inc. announced the general availability of Event-Driven Ansible, a scalable and resilient solution that expands how organizations can activate automation as a reliable strategy across the hybrid cloud. Available as part of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4, Event-Driven Ansible extends the value of existing IT investments across the enterprise, enabling IT teams to innovate more without compromising the service quality or response times necessary in modern IT environments. According to a study commissioned by Red Hat, 451 Research, part of S&P Global Market Intelligence, event-driven automation platforms "red reduce risks associated with IT infrastructure errors or degradation, conserve scarce IT resources and increase return on investments in hybrid IT architecture.

It can free to concentrate on crafting logic, improving application quality and accelerating the deployment of mission-critical applications." Event-Driven Ansible seamlessly connects infrastructure and application observability tools with enterprise-grade Ansible automation. So when Event-Driven Ansible receives events from third-party tools, it determines the next steps and acts automatically. It enables IT teams to pre-determine and define rules to initiate automated responses for situations like unresponsive system processes or unauthorized access requests.

When conditions are met and an event is triggered, it automatically executes the desired action via Ansible Playbooks or direct execution modules, with the ability to chain multiple events together into more complex automation actions. Event-Driven Ansible enables a more consistent response across IT management functions, from managing dynamic cloud-native conditions to automatically remediating potential service disruptions, like system outages or security alerts. It also reduces the burden of manual, error-prone and high-volume routine tasks, like resetting passwords, adjusting compute and storage, augmenting service tickets, addressing configuration drift or performing backups when a specific change occurs.

Not only does this free existing staff to focus on other priorities, it also helps codify existing knowledge for new team members to access and use reliable information or mitigate hiring challenges with an always on tool. As a part, Ansible Automation Platform, customers can use Event-Driven Ansible to more quickly start automating Day 0, Day 1 and Day 2 operations across the hybrid cloud. Now, a single automation platform can enable manually and automatically initiated automation in any environment, from traditional hardware and network infrastructure to cloud and edge environments.

Event-Driven Ansible extends existing organizational automation knowledge to these new scenarios, leaning on familiar automation concepts within Ansible Rulebooks to drive automated responses.