Automating The Modern Network: A Q1 Network Automation Recap
Red Hat, Thursday, April 2nd, 2026
As the first quarter of 2026 comes to a close, we have seen a shift in the role of network automation. It's no longer a "nice to have" and instead is a critical support for AI-driven workloads, edge computing, and hybrid cloud environments
For network operations (NetOps) teams, there has been a transition from managing individual devices to orchestrating entire service delivery frameworks.
The momentum we've seen this past quarter highlights that Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is the standard trusted execution layer for this transformation. Organizations are moving away from isolated team structures and high-risk manual changes, and instead embracing a unified Infrastructure as Code strategy to ensure that the network is an accelerator for the business and not a bottleneck.
Let's take a look back at some of the major milestones from the past three months.