Ansible Bridges AI Insights and Reliable IT Operations

Red Hat's Ansible Automation Platform is positioning itself as the trusted execution layer between AI-generated insights and production IT systems. With 85% of Global 500 companies expected to deploy agentic AI for autonomous IT operations by 2027, Red Hat warns that most enterprises lack the governance infrastructure to control what those agents actually do. Ansible Automation Platform 2.7 introduces a new orchestrator unifying deterministic, event-driven, and AI-driven automation in a single governance plane. The release also makes its Model Context Protocol server generally available, and Cisco is now reselling the platform, signaling Ansible's growing status as the de facto standard for network automation.