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Cisco Automation Made Easy with Red Hat® Ansible® Automation Platform

Create. Scale. Engage.

No matter the complexity of your environment or where you are on your IT modernization journey, an IT operations automation strategy helps to improve existing processes. With network automation, your network operations teams can configure, scale, protect, and integrate network infrastructure and application services much more quickly and efficiently.

As the networking pioneer, Cisco provides dozens of environments and platforms to manage everything from network switching and routing, to firewall configurations. But doing so with individual point products or platform-specific tools is not an efficient approach to scaling infrastructure management.

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform brings simplicity to automating Cisco environments. It gives your network administrators the agility, flexibility, and consistency they need to keep all your networking infrastructure running at peak performance. You can easily automate across each datacenter component—routers, switches, firewalls, IPAM, controllers, servers, and containers. In addition, you will rapidly gain efficiency by shedding point products and platform-specific tools, in favor of holistic infrastructure management.

A Wide Range of Cisco Network Product and Platform Automations

Red Hat’s long-standing relationship with Cisco has enabled Ansible Automation Platform’s automation support for a wide range of Cisco software-defined networking (SDN) products and platforms, including the following:

Network operations teams with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform can integrate with their Cisco platforms to scale automations faster because they can easily:

➣ Use Cisco Validated Designs (CVDs) to ease implementation, reduce deployment time, and improve total cost of ownership (TCO).
➣ Reduce the number of manual tasks to provide error-free, repeatable configurations.
➣ Validate changes on a continuous basis to ensure compliance.

In addition, as one of the most popular tools for simplifying routine network configuration tasks, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform minimizes the need for understanding platform-specific constructs, vendor-specific command lines, implementations, and application programming interfaces (APIs).

Network automation is key to managing new, complex, and potentially unfamiliar cloud-native environments. Moreover, automation is core to any IT digital transformation today.

To learn more about how Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, together with Cisco, makes managing and orchestrating automation across complex environments easy, download the helpful content below.

Helpful Cisco-Red Hat Network Automation Content

Video Overview – Simplifying Network Automation with Red Hat Ansible and Cisco: This 3-minute video shows how to simplify, optimize, and automate your network operations. It also shows how automation gives you the agility, flexibility, and consistency you need to keep infrastructure running at peal performance.

Solution Brief – Simplifying Network Automation: This 6-page brief explains how Cisco customers can accelerate business outcomes while adopting cloud-native technologies by automating their Cisco environment. It highlights the cost efficiencies of automation and the range of supported Cisco products as well as the increased scale, security and governance provided by the Ansible Automation Platform.

Overview Brief – Expand Network Automation to Edge Devices: This 3-page overview describes how to simplify edge networking with automated, cloud-based management with Red Hat® Ansible® Automation Platform and Cisco Meraki. See how you can deliver automated edge device provisioning and configuration to simplify and speed network deployment. You gain centralized management for edge and branch technologies, including wireless access points, smart cameras, sensors, network switching, and branch routing.

Solution Brief – Build for Scalable AI with Red Hat and Cisco: This 4-page brief discusses the validated architectures – tested by both Cisco and Red Hat – that simplify AI/ML infrastructure and operations. It also explains how to obtain access to Red Hat Ansible Certified Content Collections for Cisco Intersight and Red Hat OpenShift solutions. The Content Collections are managed and supported by Cisco and Red Hat and can be used to automate the deployment of CVDs.

For more information or to speak with a Red Hat expert on automating Cisco environments and products, please click here.