Event-Driven Ansible
In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, organizations face the challenge of managing complex IT environments while striving to deliver innovative solutions. Manual tasks and repetitive operations can consume valuable time and resources, hindering teams from focusing on strategic initiatives. To address these issues, Red Hat® Ansible® Automation Platform introduces [Event-Driven Ansible](/articles/event-driven-ansible). This event-handling capability empowers organizations to automate time-consuming tasks and respond to changing conditions across any IT domain.
[Event-Driven Ansible](/articles/event-driven-ansible) enables processing events containing critical intelligence about the IT environment. It intelligently determines the appropriate response to each event and executes automated actions to address or remediate them. While IT service management tasks, such as ticket enhancement, remediation, and user management, are excellent starting points, [Event-Driven Ansible](/articles/event-driven-ansible) offers the flexibility to automate a wide range of tasks throughout the IT infrastructure.
One of the key benefits of [Event-Driven Ansible](/articles/event-driven-ansible) is its ability to work as a powerful, unified platform for automation. Organizations can choose between manual or automatic automation styles, all within a single, cohesive platform. This versatility allows teams to work smarter and deliver IT services precisely while freeing time to focus on critical and innovative work that drives value for the business.
By leveraging event-driven automation, organizations can significantly boost their speed and responsiveness. Problems can be addressed promptly, even before they escalate into urgent issues. Mean-time-to-resolution improves, reducing the impact of incidents on operations. Furthermore, the automation of low-level tasks optimizes resource allocation, enabling valuable team members to concentrate on strategic priorities and innovation.
[Event-Driven Ansible](/articles/event-driven-ansible)’s flexibility is a standout feature. It allows easy application of event-driven automation across diverse needs. Users can subscribe to multiple event sources and utilize YAML to write conditional rules that implement actions according to specific requirements. Moreover, [Event-Driven Ansible](/articles/event-driven-ansible) can seamlessly integrate with existing playbooks or templates, maximizing the value of truste