Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Onboarding Guide

Welcome to Red Hat® Ansible® Automation Platform where your subscription provides you everything you need to create, manage, and scale automation in your organization. It’s important that you set up the platform and familiarize yourself with its features and use cases in order to be successful. We’re here to help.

If you haven’t already, we recommend that you go through the Getting Started experience right here on Red Hat Customer Portal. Our customers find the experience helpful in getting the most out of their subscription benefits like access to support, security resources, community, and more.

Then, return here, select your role in automation from those listed below, and begin your onboarding journey with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.

Platform administration
IT operations
Content creation
Automation strategy

Platform administration

As platform administrator, you have the very important responsibility of installing and setting up Ansible Automation Platform for your organization. Here are the resources you need to get started.

Step 1: Install and set up Ansible Automation Platform
Simplify the setup and configuration of Ansible Automation Platform using this curated list of materials.

Documentation: Automation planning guide
Documentation: Ansible Automation Platform installation guide
Documentation: Deploying Ansible Automation Platform operator on OpenShift Container Platform
Documentation: Automation controller quick start guide
Hands-on lab: Get started with automation controller
Documentation: Ansible Automation Platform operations guide
Documentation: Getting started with Event-Driven Ansible

Step 2: Explore Ansible Automation Platform features
Understand the features of Ansible Automation Platform with these resources.

Video: Tour of Ansible Automation Platform
Documentation: Getting started with automation hub
Hands-on lab: Manage user access and content policies using private automation hub
Blog: How to activate automation analytics and Red Hat Insights
Documentation: Managing Red Hat Certified and Ansible Galaxy collections in automation hub
Documentation: Ansible Automation Platform certified content
Self-paced lab: Get started with event-driven automation

Step 3: Continue your education and discover best practices
Expand your knowledge of Ansible Automation Platform, and learn directly from Red Hat experts.

Training: Ansible Automation Platform skills assessment
Training: Ansible basics: Automation technical overview
Reference architecture: Deploying Ansible Automation Platform 2.1
Blog: 5 things you didn’t know your Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform could do
Blog: Build an automation community of practice
Checklist: 6 steps for getting started with automation

Step 4: Bookmark these pages for easy access to continued learning and support

Red Hat Customer Portal
Product documentation
Ansible Automation Platform onboarding
Self-paced labs
Red Hat Support
Red Hat Training
Red Hat Customer Service

IT operations

Ready to centralize and control your IT landscape with end-to-end automation? Check out these materials to get started.

Step 1: Explore Ansible Automation Platform
Once your platform administrator has installed and set up your platform, it’s time to familiarize yourself with its capabilities.

Console: Log in and explore Ansible content collections in automation hub
Documentation: Ansible Automation Platform certified content
Blog: The anatomy of automation execution environments
Datasheet: Start automating in less time with Ansible validated content
Documentation: Publishing proprietary content collections in automation hub
Documentation: Getting started with Event-Driven Ansible
Video: Tour of Ansible Automation Platform

Step 2: Explore more automation features and use cases
Delve into use cases that range from fundamental to a bit more complex.

Website: Explore Ansible Automation Platform infrastructure integrations
Documentation: Get started with network automation
Hands-on lab: Terraform and Ansible Automation Platform
Documentation: Ansible Automation Platform security guide
Hands-on lab: Scale containerized applications at the edge
Checklist: 5 ways to monitor and troubleshoot your automation
Documentation: Understanding job templates
Blog: Peeling back the layers and understanding automation mesh
Self-paced lab: Get started with event-driven automation

Step 3: Continue your education and discover best practices
Expand your knowledge of Ansible Automation Platform and learn directly from Red Hat experts.

Training: Ansible Automation Platform skills assessment
Training: Ansible basics: Automation technical overview
Reference architecture: Deploying Ansible Automation Platform 2.1
Blog: 5 things you didn’t know your Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform could do
Blog: Build an automation community of practice
Checklist: 6 steps for getting started with automation

Step 4: Bookmark these pages for easy access to continued learning and support

Red Hat Customer Portal
Product documentation
Ansible Automation Platform onboarding
Self-paced labs
Red Hat Support
Red Hat Training
Red Hat Customer Service

Content creation

As content creator, you’re eager to automate everything from your organization’s most simple to complex tasks. Here’s what you need to get started.

Step 1: Discover Ansible Automation Platform
Use these resources to get familiar with Ansible Automation Platform.

Website: Get started with Ansible Automation Platform for developers
Documentation: Ansible developer guide
Hands-on lab: Write your first playbook
Training: Ansible basics: Automation technical overview DO007
Article: Explore Ansible Automation Platform certified content
Documentation: Ansible module index
Self-paced lab: Get started with Ansible navigator

Step 2: Explore Ansible Automation Platform features and use cases
Here are some materials to help you start small and then build from there.

Video: Tour of Ansible Automation Platform
Blog: Streamline your Ansible module development with Content Builder
Blog: Deep dive on Ansible VS Code extension
Checklist: 3 ways to measure automation ROI
Hands-on lab: Get started with automation mesh
Self-paced lab: Learn how to scale containerized applications to the edge

Step 3: Continue your education and connect with our community
Expand your knowledge of Ansible Automation Platform and connect with your peers.

Training: Ansible Automation Platform skills assessment
Self-paced lab: DevOps and CI/CD with automation controller
Blog: 5 things you didn’t know your Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform could do
Connect: Join the Ansible developer community email list
Practice: Become a member of the Red Hat Developer program

Step 4: Bookmark these pages for easy access to continued learning and support

Red Hat Customer Portal
Developer portal
Product documentation
Ansible Automation Platform onboarding
Self-paced labs
Red Hat Support
Red Hat Training
Red Hat Customer Service

Automation strategy

As you support your teams’ introduction to Ansible Automation Platform and guide your organization’s automation strategy, here are some resources to help.

Step 1: Get started with automation
Explore the fundamentals of Ansible Automation Platform.

Video: Tour of Ansible Automation Platform
Calculator: Ansible time savings calculator
E-book: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform: A beginner’s guide
Datasheet:How to activate automation analytics and Red Hat Insights
E-book: The automation architect's handbook

Step 2: Go inside Ansible Automation Platform
Gain greater visibility into your automation capabilities and performance.

Checklist: 3 ways IT leaders can measure their organization’s automation efforts
E-book: Innovate with automation
Case study: Microsoft uses automation and establishes a DevOps culture
Case study: Red Hat IT simplifies network automation management
E-book: Connecting your hybrid cloud environment
E-book: Enhance security with automation
Datasheet: 5 reasons to include event-driven automation in your IT strategy
E-book: Build innovation and resilience into IT operations with event-driven automation

Step 3: Continue your education and build an automation-first culture
Expand your knowledge of Ansible Automation Platform, and inspire your teams.

Training: Assess your teams' skills
Article: The rise of the automation architect
E-book: An IT executive's guide to automation
Video: Hear from Ansible's VP/GM on embracing "operations as code"
Research: The Forrester Wave: Infrastructure Automation, Q1 2023
Research: The impact of event-driven automation on IT operations
Datasheet: Red Hat Consulting Solution: Event-Driven Ansible with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

Step 4: Bookmark these pages for easy access to continued learning and support

Red Hat Customer Portal
Ansible Automation Platform onboarding
Red Hat Services for training and consulting information
Red Hat Support
Red Hat Customer Service