Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) is Red Hat’s enterprise product for running Ansible at scale. It adds a web UI and API, role-based access control, scheduling, credential management, certified content, execution environments and Event-Driven Ansible on top of open source Ansible, with Red Hat support.
AAP is an execution platform: it runs Playbooks against infrastructure. Its automation controller is the successor of Ansible Tower, and private automation hub hosts approved Collections.
Steampunk Spotter works alongside AAP. It governs Playbooks before they reach AAP, so the code AAP runs has already passed policy, security and compatibility checks. An internal benchmark showed 8× faster migration to AAP with Spotter. It also integrates with AAP directly.
