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Your automation is software. Treat it that way.

With Red Hat® Ansible® Automation Platform, you can build, test, and deploy automation consistently across IT teams using features built for enterprise scale. Automation developers can use the platform’s AI-enhanced developer tooling, VS Code integration, third-party content collections, and a customized IDE while platform engineers and admins can establish self-service workflows and standardized execution environments to extend automation consistently while enforcing policies and access control.

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Start with our Developer Sandbox for a no installation, no configuration experience or test-drive a specific use case as part of an official 60-day trial. Or install Ansible Automation Platform in your home lab to see what it can do for small-scale environments. 

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Explore Ansible Playbooks, execution environments, and more with 1-click set up, right from your browser.

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Start a 60-day trial

Evaluate full-featured Ansible Automation Platform for enterprise proof-of-concepts (POCs)—running it in your own virtual machine (VM) or cloud environment.

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Power your home lab

Manage your automation estate by running Ansible Automation Platform on your own infrastructure or cloud environment using the Red Hat build of Podman Desktop.

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Set up your automation platform

Get access to the official Ansible Automation Platform documentation, and follow learning paths that cover installing the popular VS Code extension, Ansible Playbooks, and other automation essentials. 

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Official Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform product documentation.

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Take a guided walkthrough of the Ansible extension for Visual Studio...
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Explore essential Ansible concepts, terminology, and tools, then set up your...
Learning Path Ansible Content Collections
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Explore the features

Discover how Ansible Automation Platform's capabilities empower platform engineers and automation developers (and give aspiring automation specialists a head start).

Ansible VS Code extension

The Ansible VS Code extension allows developers to efficiently write, run, and debug automation content in their preferred IDE. The extension harnesses VS Code's editing, navigation, and debugging tools tailored for Ansible Automation Platform.

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Ansible development tools

Accessible through the Ansible VS Code extension, Ansible Automation Platform development tools help engineers and developers create, test, and deploy Ansible Playbooks and collections.

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Automation portal

The self-service automation portal makes automation accessible to everyone without sacrificing governance. Users can build consistent execution environments, discover automation content, and even launch automation jobs so teams have access to the automation they need—with governance and control.

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Ansible Content Collections

Ansible Content Collections are the essential building blocks of automation. Draw from pre-built modules, playbooks, plugins, roles, and more to automate Red Hat and third-party solutions from Cisco, Splunk, Microsoft, and more.

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Automation coding assistant

The automation coding assistant—formerly Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed—is a generative AI service that uses natural language prompts to generate trusted, reliable YAML code in the form of playbooks, roles, or tasks. Responses are aligned to Ansible best practices so you can create automation code in seconds and ship with confidence.

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Ansible development workspaces

Work in a browser-based development environment that includes Ansible development tools and best practices. Automation developers can efficiently create, test, and deploy automation content while ensuring enterprise policy enforcement and governance.

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