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ANSIBLE AS AUTOMATION GLUE

Joining business units together since 2012

Allen Eastwood

• Sr. Architect - Automation Practice,

Red Hat allen.eastwood@redhat.com

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glue

/ɡlo ͞ o/

noun

• 1. an adhesive substance used for

sticking objects or materials together.

TALKING POINTS ★ Why is automation so critical to enterprises? ★ Sticky as a Service (the new SaaS) ★ The “DevOps team” syndrome ★ Crossing “language” barriers

WHY IS AUTOMATION SO CRITICAL TO ENTERPRISES?

This really applies to anyone (wink)...

WHY IS AUTOMATION SO CRITICAL TO ENTERPRISES? AGILITY

Must be able to scale or make technology adjustments on demand

TIME TO MARKET

Business units are DEMANDING faster IT services

IMPROVED QUALITY OF SERVICE

Sprawling dependencies, human error, and in-flight changes create “snowflake” deployments

WORKFORCE PRODUCTIVITY

Highly-skilled staff stuck doing manual tasks over and over again; one-at-a-time configurations

RISK

Users circumvent long and rigorous IT process, creating management and security problems

STICKY AS A SERVICE

The new SaaS

STICKY AS A SERVICE

sticky

/ˈstikē/

adjective

• 1. tending or designed to stick to

things on contact or covered with something that sticks.

STICKY AS A SERVICE

SIMPLE POWERFUL AGENTLESS

• App deployment
• Configuration

management

• Workflow orchestration
• Orchestrate the app

lifecycle

• Human readable

automation

• No special coding skills

needed

• Tasks executed in order
• Get productive quickly
• Agentless architecture
• Uses OpenSSH & WinRM
• No agents to exploit or

update

• More efficient & more

secure

STICKY AS A SERVICE

ENTERPRISE IMPACT

TEAM IMPACT ENTERPRISE IMPACT

+ Save time and be more productive + Overcome complexity + Eliminate repetitive tasks + More resources for innovation + Fewer mistakes & errors + Increase accountability and compliance + Improve collaboration and job satisfaction + A culture of success

AUTOMATION STRATEGY, DO YOU NEED ONE?

strategy

/ˈstradəjē/

noun

• 1. a plan of action or policy designed

to achieve a major or overall aim.

YES, AUTOMATION NEEDS A PLAN TOO

THE “DEVOPS TEAM” SYNDROME

THE “DEVOPS TEAM” SYNDROME

DevOps Team Syndrome

/dēvops/ /tēm/ /ˈsinˌdrōm/

technology disease

• 1. the unfortunate behavior in believing

that a single team of engineers can solve an organization's technology problems alone by using some

• rchestration tool.

THE “DEVOPS TEAM” SYNDROME HOW MANY TIMES HAVE YOU HEARD THIS...

THE DEVOPS TEAM WILL TAKE CARE OF THAT

Can a single team really cover all the areas of your business and solve all the IT operational problems?

ASK YOURSELF...

CROSSING “LANGUAGE” BARRIERS

Glue is the foundation of duct tape

CROSSING “LANGUAGE” BARRIERS

Use Ansible as the common language

From development… …to production.

ANSIBLE PLAYBOOK DEV/TEST Q/A OPERATIONS CHANGE MANAGEMENT OUTSOURCERS

CROSSING “LANGUAGE” BARRIERS

Internally sponsored Community of Practice Do not limit participation, invite everyone...

❏ Developers ❏ Support Engineers ❏ Operations Engineers ❏ Infrastructure Admins ❏ Unix/Linux Admins ❏ Application Support Engineers ❏ Network Admins ❏ DBA’s

QUESTIONS/THOUGHTS

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