Red Hat to acquire Ansible

Joe Fitzgerald, vice president, Management, Red Hat
Joe Fitzgerald, vice president, Management, Red Hat
Red Hat, is all set to acquire Ansible, Inc., the powerful IT automation solutions provider that are designed to help enterprises move toward frictionless IT.

Ansible’s automation capabilities, together with Red Hat’s existing management portfolio, will help users drive down the cost and complexity of deploying and managing both cloud-native and traditional applications across hybrid cloud environments.

Joe Fitzgerald, vice president, Management at Red Hat said, “Ansible is a clear leader in IT automation and DevOps, and helps Red Hat take a significant step forward in our goal of creating frictionless IT. Red Hat is transforming IT management, driving innovation that is 100% open source, built on an open management platform, and relentlessly focused on reducing cost and complexity through ease of use and automation. I am thrilled to welcome Ansible to Red Hat to help us expand that commitment.”

With Ansible under its belt, Red Hat will be in position to expand its leadership in hybrid cloud management, OpenStack and containers. Ansible’s simple and agentless approach, unlike competing solutions, does not require any special coding skills, removing some of the most significant barriers to automation across IT.

From deployment and configuration to rolling upgrades, by adding Ansible to its hybrid management portfolio, Red Hat will help customers deploy and manage applications across private and public clouds, speed service delivery through DevOps initiatives, streamline OpenStack installations and upgrades as well as accelerate container adoption by simplifying orchestration and configuration.

The upstream Ansible project is one of the most popular open source automation projects on GitHub with an active and highly engaged community, encompassing nearly 1,200 contributors. Ansible automation is being used by a growing number of Fortune 100 companies, powering large and complex private cloud environments, and the company has received several notable accolades, including a 2015 InfoWorld Bossie Award, recognizing the best open source datacenter and cloud software.

Saïd Ziouani, co-founder and CEO at Ansible said, “We’re thrilled that Red Hat, a global leader in open source, has chosen Ansible to tackle the future of IT automation and systems management. This is a strong validation that Ansible’s simplicity, enterprise customer base and robust community is winning in enterprise IT automation, from compute to networking to cloud to containers.”

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