Solutions
Infrastructure Automation
Replace hand-managed infrastructure with automation that is idempotent, version-controlled, and built for day-two operations. We extend what you already have before introducing new tooling, and cover the toil that provisioning scripts always leave behind — patching, drift detection, certificate rotation, and remediation.
The Business Problem
Infrastructure managed by hand — environments that drift, changes that aren't tracked, and toil that scales with headcount instead of with the platform
The Challenge
Infrastructure managed by hand accumulates problems slowly and then all at once. Individual servers or clusters configured through one-off commands, undocumented workarounds, and tribal knowledge work until they don’t — and when something breaks, the path to recovery is unclear because the desired state was never written down.
The symptoms are familiar: production and staging environments that behave differently despite being “the same,” configuration changes made under pressure that nobody documented, and infrastructure tasks that require a specific person because only they know the process. Teams spend time on toil — repetitive, manual work with no compounding value — instead of building things.
The harder problem is that manual infrastructure management doesn’t just create operational risk. It becomes a ceiling on delivery speed. Automated, self-service infrastructure is a prerequisite for teams that want to ship frequently and safely.
Our Approach
We design infrastructure automation with idempotency and auditability as non-negotiable properties. Any automation we build can be run repeatedly with the same result, and every change it makes is traceable. That means infrastructure-as-code, version-controlled configuration, and pipelines that apply changes the same way every time.
We meet teams where they are. Many organizations have existing Ansible playbooks or Terraform code that’s partially automated and partially not. We extend and clean up what’s there before introducing new tooling, because the goal is a consistent operating model, not a showcase of every available tool.
We also design automation for day-two operations: patching, certificate rotation, configuration drift detection, and remediation. Automation that only handles initial provisioning leaves most of the toil intact.
Technology Options
- Ansible Automation Platform — agentless configuration management and orchestration across servers, network devices, and cloud APIs; Red Hat’s primary automation product for infrastructure and application deployment
- Terraform / OpenTofu — declarative infrastructure provisioning for cloud resources; OpenTofu is the open-source fork maintained by the community
- Pulumi — infrastructure as code using general-purpose languages (Python, TypeScript, Go) for teams that prefer programming models over HCL
- Ansible Event-Driven Automation (EDA) — event-driven remediation that responds to infrastructure state changes automatically, reducing the need for human intervention
- Crossplane — Kubernetes-native infrastructure provisioning, managing cloud resources through Kubernetes CRDs and GitOps workflows
- Renovate / Dependabot — automated dependency and configuration update management, keeping infrastructure definitions current without manual tracking
- HashiCorp Vault — secrets and credentials management integrated with automation pipelines so sensitive values are never hardcoded