This document discusses using Ansible for automation across various IT use cases. It provides examples of how Ansible can be used for infrastructure orchestration, patch management, network automation, and managing various network devices and platforms including Cisco, Palo Alto, and Fortinet devices. It also provides examples of playbooks for tasks like provisioning servers, configuring firewall rules, and checking for configuration drift. Overall it promotes Ansible as a simple, agentless, and extensible automation tool that can automate technologies across IT operations, DevOps, security and more.