Artificial intelligence used to be a future aspiration for IT teams. That time has passed, and it is now a present day imperative.
Organizations across every industry are under pressure to do more with less, respond faster, and secure increasingly complex infrastructure environments. Yet the reality most IT teams face is not a clean, cloud-native environment purpose-built for AI. Instead, they’re faced with a sprawling mix of on-premises servers, legacy systems, and multi-cloud deployments that were never designed with AI orchestration in mind. The question is no longer whether to adopt AI-driven operations, but how to do so securely, practically, and without starting over from scratch.
That’s exactly the challenge that Presidio solved by combining F5 and Red Hat solutions with deep automation expertise.
The Challenge Faced by Today’s IT Teams
The day-to-day reality for Linux, network, and infrastructure admins is relentless. Their core responsibilities of configuring, provisioning, and securing infrastructure while proving compliance are growing more difficult. A compliance report for a single server can generate hundreds of critical findings across networking, storage, compute, and operating system layers. Multiply that across an entire data center, add cloud systems and firewalls on top, and the manual burden becomes untenable.
When an issue spans multiple domains such as a vulnerability that touches both network policy and OS configuration, resolving it typically means pulling in multiple specialists just to diagnose the problem. Operational risk accumulates as decisions slow down and IT teams burn out. Traditional automation tools certainly help with some of the burden, but most tools cannot analyze, interpret, or intelligently decide what to do next. This is where AI holds promise.
However, the deeper challenge to the “just add an agent” answer is structural. Most existing data center infrastructure is not natively accessible to AI agents. Organizations cannot simply point an AI at their environment and expect results. Without a cohesive framework that connects legacy and modern infrastructure, there is no secure, scalable path to AI-driven operations.
A Proven Framework Built by Industry Leaders
Presidio has developed an AI-agent-driven, intelligent IT operations framework purpose-built for IT teams managing today’s real-world, brownfield infrastructure. Powered at its core by Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, and secured end-to-end by F5, the framework combines AI agents with proven automation tooling to deliver intelligent orchestration across on-premises, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments without requiring organizations to rearchitect their existing systems.
One of the most critical design decisions in building this framework was achieving deterministic behavior from AI agents. When dealing with infrastructure, you must ensure that no matter how an IT operator phrases a request, the system responds in a consistent, pre-determined, compliant way. Presidio solved this challenge by placing Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform at the core of execution. Rather than allowing AI agents to interact directly with infrastructure – which introduces unpredictability and security risk – the framework has agents decide what automation to run, and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform carries out the actual changes. The AI agents are the brains; Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is the hands, with every action following a defined and tested Playbook for full auditability.
Equally important was the challenge of securely connecting AI agents to infrastructure wherever it lives. Presidio’s framework leverages F5 Distributed Cloud Services to provide API protection, deploy bot defense, and bridge on-premises and multi-cloud environments easily. Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform then provide the foundation for easily containerizing and automating any infrastructure or tools needed. F5 AI Guardrails further protects the AI layer itself, inspecting prompts and responses at runtime to defend against prompt injection, PII and sensitive-data exfiltration, harmful outputs, and adversarial attacks. The result is a fully connected, fully secured architecture that works across any combination of on-premises, hybrid, and multi-cloud infrastructure.
Security and Compliance: A Real-World Example
To show the value this combined solution provides, let’s consider the common IT task of ensuring the security and compliance of a server. When a compliance scan runs against a server, it returns a report that may contain hundreds of findings at varying severity levels across networking, storage, and OS layers. Traditionally, an admin must manually interpret every finding, determine which are false positives, figure out the correct remediation for each issue, and then either fix it themselves or route it to the right specialist.
Presidio’s Intelligent Operations Framework changes this entirely. AI agents analyze the compliance report, distinguish genuine critical vulnerabilities from false positives, recommend the appropriate remediation path, and generate Red Hat Ansible Playbooks to execute the fixes – all in a single pass. What once required hours of manual work and multiple expert consultations now produces a complete remediation plan and the automation code to carry it out, ready to scale across hundreds of systems simultaneously.
The Breadth of What the Joint Solution Can Deliver
The compliance use case is just one of many. Presidio has built a comprehensive catalog of agent behaviors using Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform that covers virtually any infrastructure task a central IT team faces. The right question is not “what can these agents do?” but “what can’t they do?”
Currently, the combined solution can help with:
- Configuring and auditing network devices and firewall rules
- Building digital twins for infrastructure modeling and planning
- Provisioning server infrastructure and test environments on demand
- Monitoring infrastructure health and triggering self-healing workflows
- Generating compliance and audit reports through natural language requests
- Automating certificate creation and renewal
- Integrating with CI/CD pipelines for automated deployments
- Delivering real-time dashboards and executive-level performance analytics
No matter what use case you might have need of, Presidio implements the framework around it and delivers a secure path to execute it using Red Hat and F5 technologies. This solution is a flexible, extensible foundation built on industry-leading technology that adapts to each organization’s specific requirements.
The Strategic Value of Our Collaboration
Presidio’s AI-driven intelligent operations framework powered by Red Hat and secured by F5 delivers significant operational and strategic value to any organization. By uniting AI-driven intelligence with proven automation, teams can eliminate repetitive manual tasks, reduce human error, and dramatically accelerate workflows across the entire infrastructure lifecycle. Administrators can interact with their environment through natural language, triggering actions and generating reports without needing specialist knowledge in every domain.
With this combined solution, you’ll enjoy:
AI-Driven Orchestration
Built on Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, the framework automates the full lifecycle of server provisioning, network configuration, application deployment, and resource scaling in the customer’s environment. It integrates directly with CI/CD pipelines, provisions sandbox environments on demand, and dynamically adjusts resources based on real-time demand – all without manual intervention.
Intelligent Monitoring and Self-Healing
When issues arise, AI-powered monitoring diagnoses problems in real time by analyzing logs and error patterns. Once deployed, the framework recommends and executes corrective actions automatically via Red Hat Ansible Playbooks, rolls back failed configurations, and schedules maintenance windows without human coordination.
Continuous Security, Compliance, and Remediation
Security and compliance are not periodic check-ins, but continuous processes embedded into the framework. Agents validate configurations against security frameworks and execute Red Hat Ansible remediation playbooks, while F5 AI Guardrails protects the AI layer from adversarial attacks and data leakage at runtime. F5 Distributed Cloud API Security safeguards every API interaction, ensuring vulnerabilities are caught and addressed before they become incidents.
Visibility and Executive Intelligence
Every action, insight, and trend surfaces through real-time dashboards and executive-level reporting. Teams can generate on-demand audit reports through natural language requests, track cost and performance analytics, and receive automated ITSM ticket updates – giving both IT leaders and executive stakeholders the visibility they need to plan, prioritize, and make informed decisions.
Perhaps most importantly, the joint framework empowers your IT teams to do more with less while positioning your organization for the AIOps-driven future ahead.
Ready to Modernize Your Infrastructure Operations?
The powerful combination of Presidio, F5, and Red Hat has created an ideal solution that is built for the infrastructure you have today and the AI-driven future you are headed toward. Whether your environment is on-premises, hybrid, or multi-cloud, Presidio has built a secure, scalable, and immediately practical path to intelligent, automated IT operations.
If you’d like to learn more about how we can help enable secure, intelligent operations as you move toward your AI future, please reach out to at https://www.presidio.com/contact-us/
