The Case for an Automation Control Plane

As organizations scale automation across legacy systems, SaaS platforms, and cloud-native services, they quickly encounter fragmentation. Homegrown scripts known only to a few + different commercial automation tools, and point integrations creates IT automation sprawl. The result is: brittle workflows, limited visibility, inconsistent governance, and oddly… more sys admin cycles spent managing the sprawl…in which automation was supposed to reduce.

Our Automation Practice designs and implements an Automation Control Plane built on Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. We standardize automation for all the requirements that matter to a system administrator today:

• Versioned, reusable, human readable (YAML) and supported content (via Ansible Automation Hub)

• AI Code Assistance via Ansible Lightspeed, enabling all IT roles (software developers, DevOps, and sys admins) to write code

• Role-based access control, credential isolation, approved execution paths

• Support for Windows, Linux/Unix, Virtual, Network, Storage IoT, Cloud, Container, and Serverless environments

• Scheduled, AdHoc, and Event Driven Ansible (EDA) execution

• Idempotent, auditable, and immutable logging