Red Hat Acquires Ansible for DevOps IT Automation | Linux Today

Red Hat Acquires Ansible for DevOps IT Automation

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Sean Michael Kerner
Oct 16, 2015

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. Ansible’s primary product is its Ansible Tower platform, an enterprise-grade IT orchestration and automation system. Financial terms of the deal are not being publicly disclosed by Red Hat.

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