# Ansible Automation Platform

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/ansible-automation-platform/  
**Website:** https://docs.ansible.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 8

Ansible Automation Platform (formerly Ansible Tower) provides a REST API for managing automation workflows, job templates, inventories, credentials, and projects. The API enables programmatic access to the automation controller for launching jobs, managing infrastructure inventory, and orchestrating complex multi-tier deployments across hybrid cloud environments.

## Kin Score — 33.2 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 33.2).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 16.3 |
| Governance | 11.4 |
| Contract Governance | 11.4 |
| Operational Transparency | 10.5 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 47.6 |
| Commercial Clarity | 47.4 |
| Access Clarity | 47.4 |

## Agent readiness — 32.1 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | partial |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Freemium · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (8)

- **Ansible Automation Controller API** — RESTful API for the Ansible Automation Controller (formerly Ansible Tower) providing programmatic access to job templates, workflows, inventories, credentials, projects, and job...
- **Ansible Automation Hub API** — REST API for Ansible Automation Hub providing access to certified and validated Ansible content collections, roles, and execution environments. Supports searching, downloading, ...
- **Ansible Event-Driven Automation API** — API for Event-Driven Ansible (EDA) Controller enabling management of rulebooks, activations, and event sources for automated response to infrastructure and application events.
- **Ansible Galaxy API** — REST API for Ansible Galaxy, the community hub for sharing Ansible roles and collections. Supports searching, downloading, and rating community automation content.
- **Ansible Automation Platform Inventories API** — Manage inventories
- **Ansible Automation Platform Job Templates API** — Manage job templates
- **Ansible Automation Platform Jobs API** — Manage and execute jobs
- **Ansible Automation Platform Projects API** — Manage projects

## Agentic access (1)

- **Ansible Automation Platform Agentic Access** — 5 operations · 1 acting

## Security (2)

- **Ansible Automation Platform Authentication** — http · 1 scheme
- **Ansible Automation Platform Domain Security** — TLSv1.3

## Plans (1)

- **Ansible Automation Platform Plans Pricing**

## Use cases (5)

- **Infrastructure Provisioning** — Automate provisioning of servers, networks, and cloud resources across hybrid environments.
- **Configuration Management** — Maintain consistent configuration across thousands of servers with idempotent automation.
- **Application Deployment** — Automate application deployment pipelines with rolling updates and rollback capabilities.
- **Security Compliance** — Enforce security policies and compliance standards through automated remediation workflows.
- **Network Automation** — Automate network device configuration and management across multi-vendor environments.

## Tags

Automation, Configuration Management, DevOps, Infrastructure as Code, Orchestration

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/ansible-automation-platform/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.