World’s leading provider of open source solutions - 'Red Hat' announced that it has signed a agreement to acquire Ansible. Ansible is powerful infrastructure-provisioning tool. Ansible competes with some popular automation tools named Puppet, Chef and SaltStack. While no actual purchase price are published, it is rumored that it costs around US$100 million for Red Hat to acquire Ansible.
Said Ziouani, cofounder and CEO of Ansible, said, “We’re thrilled that Red Hat, a global leader in open source, has chosen Ansible to tackle the future of IT automation and systems management. This is a strong validation that Ansible’s simplicity, enterprise customer base and robust community is winning in enterprise IT automation, from compute to networking to cloud to containers.”
Joe Fitzgerald, vice president of management at Red Hat, said, “Ansible is a clear leader in IT automation and DevOps, and helps Red Hat take a significant step forward in our goal of creating frictionless IT. Red Hat is transforming IT management, driving innovation that is 100% open source, built on an open management platform, and relentlessly focused on reducing cost and complexity through ease of use and automation. I am thrilled to welcome Ansible to Red Hat to help us expand that commitment.”
Ansible is simple approach to infrastructure-provisioning which does not require any special coding skills. By adding Ansible to its hybrid management portfolio, Red Hat will help customers to :
- Deploy and manage applications across private and public clouds.
- Speed service delivery through DevOps initiatives.
- Streamline OpenStack installations and upgrades.
- Accelerate container adoption by simplifying orchestration and configuration.
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