Ansible - the news doesn't stop
Initially, Ansible was only about IT automation in the infrastructure. In the meantime, however, Ansible is increasingly being used to automate business-relevant topics, such as regulatory requirements or automated documentation. Ansible is covering more and more use cases - and the ecosystem partners have made a major contribution to this.
Ansible during the Rise migration
In the SAP context, the advantages of Ansible become clear, especially in the case of Rise migration. This involves going through various phases such as fit-gap analyses, testing and staging, preliminary projects, process optimization, interface definition, data historization and transformation or integration. Of course, this is often a process lasting several months.
With Ansible as a framework and open source as a catalyst, companies can achieve acceleration here. For example, Ansible can be used to automatically roll out the required testing and staging landscape in self-service and on-demand in any infrastructure. Ansible not only automates the actual migration and deployments in the Rise landscape, but also the subsequent day-2 operations of connected systems, interfaces or non-SAP and edge environments.
Two examples illustrate the dynamics: event-driven automation and Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed. Event-driven automation is an important building block for end-to-end automation and makes it possible to combine information, analyses and service requests with automated actions across silos. Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed is a generative AI service that generates content recommendations on user prompts, supporting the rapid creation of Ansible content.
Policy as Code based on Ansible will also gain in importance as a new method. This will make it possible to define the target state of a landscape and then automatically monitor and document configuration changes, security or incidents as well as governance and compliance. This is of considerable benefit to highly regulated sectors such as the pharmaceutical industry, financial and insurance service providers or the healthcare sector.
Policy as Code can be applied not only to SAP systems, but also to non-SAP systems. As Ansible supports more efficient and faster migration, companies can also tackle innovation topics faster and in some cases in parallel. For example, a self-service portal for the specialist departments is used to provide an end-to-end development environment including an S/4 instance or a system copy, test data, interfaces, data lakes for AI, pre-connected third-party systems and all desired cloud-native frameworks for developers and data scientists. Ansible rolls out all the required elements in minutes, in an on-premises or cloud environment. The result for companies is optimization in the areas of time-to-market, time-to-business and time-to-value.
Ansible goes Business
Overall, Ansible is covering more and more business-relevant use cases and is clearly developing in the direction of business. For companies, the consequence should be clear: Automation know-how and expertise are essential in order not to lose momentum unnecessarily in the SAP migration and modernization context. Numerous experienced SAP partners provide support. However, despite a changeover to Rise, many tasks and potentials as well as the operational responsibility for them remain with the user. If the next job advertisement is for SAP expertise, Red Hat Ansible Automation should therefore always be part of the requirement profile in order to offer employees maximum relief.
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