Red Hat Acquires Ansible for DevOps IT Automation

Red Hat today announced that it is acquiring privately held IT automation vendor Ansible, whose open-source platform is well-known and deployed in the DevOps community and is competitive with both Chef and Puppet.

Red Hat plans to use Ansible's technology to complement its existing IT management tools, including CloudForms and Satellite. The decision to acquire Ansible does not, however, mean that Red Hat will abandon its use of Puppet.

Red Hat already has a clear idea of where Ansible fits in. "We will integrate Ansible playbooks into CloudForms automation and orchestration," Fitzgerald said.