Ansible, the most popular open source IT automation project on GitHub, is a radically simple automation engine that automates cloud provisioning, configuration management, application deployment, intra-service orchestration, and many other IT needs. In 2015, Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) acquired Ansible, Inc., the company that supported and sponsored Ansible.

Red Hat now sponsors the Ansible open source community project and provides enterprise-ready commercial offerings that help teams manage complex multi-tier deployments by adding control, knowledge, and delegation to Ansible-powered environments.