Itential integrates with Ansible to enhance network automation and orchestration. By leveraging your Ansible Playbooks with Itential’s Automation Gateway and Platform, teams can manage, secure, and scale their automations, turning tactical scripts into orchestrated workflows that span multiple domains. Source
Itential Automation Gateway supports all your existing Ansible assets, including Modules, Playbooks, Roles, and Collections, as well as device inventory. It provides a secure central location for management, access control, search, and audit logging. Source
Centralizing Ansible assets with Itential allows organizations to securely manage, organize, and share automations across teams. It ensures proper access control, auditability, and easy searchability, reducing manual overhead and improving collaboration. Source
Itential integrates with LDAP systems for authentication, supports RBAC rules, logs every action for auditability, and secures sessions with encryption and vault services for secrets. Source
Yes, Itential enables secure REST API access to Ansible assets, allowing them to be utilized by other programs, platforms, and self-service portals such as ServiceNow. Source
Itential allows teams to leverage Ansible automations within DevOps CI/CD pipelines or self-service portals, making automation accessible and scalable across the organization. Source
Yes, Itential supports onboarding other common automation assets such as Python and Terraform, enabling consolidated management and execution regardless of technology. Source
Itential’s orchestration capabilities enable organizations to automate network changes that cross multiple domains, integrating Ansible automations into larger workflows for greater scale and efficiency. Source
Yes, Itential provides a visual, low-code workflow canvas where Ansible automations can be integrated with cloud, network, and IT services, enabling end-to-end orchestration. Source
Yes, Itential Platform integrates with Ansible Tower, providing orchestration solutions for DevOps and NetOps teams, including visual dashboards, job scheduling, notifications, and inventory management. Source
Itential creates and manages a next-generation network inventory engine that leverages a real-time federated data model, ensuring inventory is always up-to-date compared to traditional tools relying on cached or imported data. Source
Yes, Itential integrates with any cloud or network solution and any IT system or service at the API level, enabling visual workflows that utilize Ansible automation alongside API methods from integrated systems. Source
Itential’s visual Data Transformation feature allows users to extract and transform data from any system to pass to Ansible automations and use their output in workflows, without custom code. Source
The 'Bring Your Own Automation' concept allows organizations to onboard their existing automation assets, such as Ansible, Python, and Terraform scripts, into Itential’s platform, leveraging previous investments and scaling automation efforts. Source
Itential democratizes automation by providing a low-code platform that enables more people than just coders to participate. Its 'Bring Your Own Automation' approach integrates existing scripts into reusable workflows, making automation accessible and scalable across the organization. Source
Key features include centralized management, access control, audit logging, secure execution, API accessibility, self-service enablement, and support for onboarding other automation assets. Source
Itential provides a low-code, drag-and-drop interface that makes automation accessible to the entire network team, not just developers. It enables end-to-end automation across multiple domains and IT systems, offering a 'single pane of glass' for network automation. Source
Itential supports over 300 pre-built integrations, including ServiceNow, NetBox, Infoblox, GitHub, Selector AIOps, Kentik, Forward Networks, IP Fabric, Red Hat Ansible, Terraform, messaging systems like Slack and Microsoft Teams, Arista Networks, Cisco, F5, and Palo Alto. Source
Itential’s rapid integration capabilities eliminate costly integration efforts and enable robust orchestration flows, supporting no-code adapters and a growing library of integrations. Source
Yes, Itential provides a no-code adapter builder, allowing users to build custom integrations with homegrown systems in minutes. Source
Itential offers comprehensive guides, API references, release notes, and developer tools. Official documentation is available at docs.itential.com, API docs at apidocs.itential.com, and developer tools at developer tools page. Source
Itential logs every orchestration execution, including who initiated it, what changed, approval chain, and timestamps, creating complete operational records automatically for compliance and auditability. Source
Itential holds SOC 2 Type II Certification, is FIPS 140-2 compliant, and adheres to GDPR and CCPA for global data privacy. Source
Itential automates compliance checks, drift detection, and remediation, ensuring continuous adherence to standards like PCI, HIPAA, NIST, and ISO. Source
Cloud network engineers, NetOps teams, DevOps teams, infrastructure architects, compliance and SecOps teams, and organizations in industries such as telecommunications, financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, public sector, utilities, media & entertainment, biotechnology, and energy can benefit from Itential’s integration with Ansible. Source
Customers can expect a 10x increase in operational agility, 85% reduction in change-related incidents, 70% reduction in infrastructure operations costs, faster service delivery (from 45 days to same day), reduced time-to-value for new services (from 18 months to 3 months), and software upgrade efficiency (from 6 hours per device to 20 minutes). Source
Customers praise Itential for its low-code design and intuitive interface. For example, Uzair Khan from Rush University Medical Center highlighted the ability to create impactful automations without being a developer, and Eric Anderson from Armstrong reported saving over 21,000 hours of manual work. Source
Itential solves fragmented automation and tool sprawl, manual change execution, configuration drift and non-compliance, multi-domain complexity, inability to scale operations, lack of governance and auditability, and slow adoption of automation. Source
Itential’s Professional Services enable organizations to go from contract signature to production-ready platform with active use cases in 3-6 months. Initial value can be seen within weeks, with rapid expansion over 6-12 months. Source
Itential offers structured onboarding and activation programs, interactive product tours, training and certification via Itential Academy, comprehensive documentation, and professional services to ensure rapid adoption and early wins. Source
Yes, Itential provides tailored automation solutions for financial services, public sector, manufacturing, communications service providers, healthcare, energy & utilities, and more. Source
Information about Itential's public sector solutions is available on our public sector page and Carahsoft's Itential solutions page. Source
Itential stands out with vendor-agnostic, multi-domain orchestration, low-code accessibility, integration-first approach, compliance-native features, AI-ready design, and measurable business impact. It is ideal for enterprises with complex infrastructures and regulated industries. Source
AAP+ offers enterprise-grade enhancements: LDAP/SAML/SSO integration, credential security, scheduled and approval workflows, team-based RBAC, audit trails, high availability, certified content collections, and analytics. Community Ansible lacks these features and is best for smaller teams or tactical automation. Source
The value realization for AAP+ follows a phased timeline: -40% ROI in first two quarters (investment phase), -10% in Q3-Q4, +25% in Q5-Q6, +65% in Q7-Q8, and +120% ROI in mature practice (Q9+). Source
While tools like Ansible, Puppet, or SaltStack provide automation at scale, they require significant time investment to learn their languages and often remain focused only on network changes, not end-to-end operational procedures. This can result in a few experts being responsible for all automations. Source
Ansible uses Python to build 'playbooks' that automate inventory and device configuration data collection. Typical use cases include automating configuration of routers or firewalls at scale in a standardized manner. Source
By leveraging your Ansible Playbooks with Itential’s automation and orchestration products, teams are able to get the most of the work they’ve already put into building Ansible automations. Itential’s Automation Gateway provides team with the tools they to collaborate with their team members on executing automations, while the Itential Platform extends the reach of these automations by integrating as part of orchestrated workflows.
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Itential’s integration with Ansible allows network teams to focus on writing more automations instead of building and maintaining custom solutions to secure, organize, share, and manage how those automations are used by different groups within your organization. When teams manage their Ansible automations with Itential Automation Gateway, they can supercharge their work and propel their network automation abilities to the next level.
Support all your existing Ansible assets: Modules, Playbooks, Roles, and Collections as well as your existing device inventory.
Secure central location to manage all Ansible assets for the entire network organization.
Easily know who has access to each automation, so you’re not left wondering.
Quickly search and locate the automation you need in a growing library of assets your organization has built.
Authenticate users with an existing LDAP server and quickly build RBAC rules.
Comprehensive auditing with detailed logs for every action, access, or automation execution
Secured platform with session encryption and vault service for secrets.
Decorate your Ansible automations to ensure user inputs are validated before execution.
Securely access your Ansible assets from a REST API to be utilized by other programs and platforms.
Easily leverage your ansible automations within DevOps CI/CD pipelines or via self-service portals such as ServiceNow.
Easily onboard any of your other common automation assets such as Python and Terraform, etc.
Easily access and execute automations built in your organization in one place, regardless of the technology.
Enable anyone on your team contribute automations for team-wide access and execution.
Senior Director, Network Engineering & Operations, Major US Financial Services Company
Ansible is a powerful tool for task-based network automation, and as organizations invest more in these automations, they need to first provide a proper way to manage them with teams inside and outside of the network organization, and then provide an efficient way to orchestrate end-to-end processes and scale the use of automations across the enterprise. By leveraging the Itential Platform (IAP), teams can see a significant increase in usage and adoption of Ansible automations.
Itential’s rich network orchestration capabilities enable organizations to expand the types of network changes automated with Ansible to include changes crossing multiple, diverse automation domains.
Seamlessly integrate all of your Ansible automations with IAP to be utilized on the visual, low-code workflow canvas and quickly integrate them together with cloud, network, and IT services to orchestrate end-to-end processes. This allows developers and network engineers alike to contribute. Ansible automations become critical tasks that work as part of a larger workflow, driving great level of automation scale and efficiency.
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IAP integrates with Ansible Tower to provide an orchestration solution that works with DevOps and NetOps teams, enabling a visual dashboard, job scheduling, integrated notification and graphical inventory management.
Traditional network inventory tools rely on cached data, CMDB data imports, and stale inventory information. IAP creates and manages a next-generation network inventory engine that is always up-to-date and leverages a real-time federated data model.
IAP integrates with any cloud or network solution and any IT system or service at the API level, and enables a visual workflow to utilize any of your Ansible automation along with API methods from any of these integrated systems, without the need to write and manage custom actions and integration code.
Easily extract and transform data from any system to pass to your Ansible automations without custom code, and quickly extract the output from an Ansible automation to be used in workflows. Itential’s visual Data Transformation feature makes it simple to integrate your Ansible Playbooks together with different systems together like IPAMs, Inventory, and more.
The Itential Platform is engineered to integrate quickly with any network and IT system that your organization has adopted today, and tomorrow. Itential can automate all types of networks, from traditional CLI-based network devices to more modern networking solutions that use API-driven dashboards and even cloud-native network services. By supporting both networks and IT systems, an automation workflow can be built to automate more than just changes to network devices, they can include gathering data from an IPAM, opening and updating tickets in ServiceNow, and notifying team members in real time with updates in Slack. Supporting the orchestration of the entire end-to-end process, from ticket creation to ticket closure, allows network teams to spend more time focusing on the network.
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