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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? IMPROVED QUALITY AGILITY TIME TO MARKET OF SERVICE Must be able to scale or Business units are Sprawling dependencies, make technology DEMANDING faster IT human error, and in-flight adjustments on demand services changes create “snowflake” deployments WORKFORCE RISK PRODUCTIVITY Users circumvent long and rigorous IT process, Highly-skilled staff stuck doing creating management and manual tasks over and over security problems again; one-at-a-time configurations

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 POWERFUL AGENTLESS SIMPLE Human readable Agentless architecture App deployment ● ● ● automation Uses OpenSSH & WinRM Configuration ● ● No special coding skills No agents to exploit or management ● ● needed update Workflow orchestration ● Tasks executed in order More efficient & more Orchestrate the app ● ● ● Get productive quickly secure lifecycle ●

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 orchestration tool.

THE “DEVOPS TEAM” SYNDROME HOW MANY TIMES HAVE YOU HEARD THIS... THE DEVOPS TEAM WILL TAKE CARE OF THAT ASK YOURSELF... Can a single team really cover all the areas of your business and solve all the IT operational problems?

CROSSING “LANGUAGE” BARRIERS Glue is the foundation of duct tape

CROSSING “LANGUAGE” BARRIERS Use Ansible as the common language ANSIBLE PLAYBOOK From development… …to production. DEV/TEST Q/A OPERATIONS CHANGE OUTSOURCERS MANAGEMENT

CROSSING “LANGUAGE” BARRIERS Internally sponsored Community of Practice Do not limit participation , invite everyone... ❏ Developers ❏ Unix/Linux Admins ❏ Support Engineers ❏ Application Support Engineers ❏ Operations Engineers ❏ Network Admins ❏ Infrastructure Admins ❏ DBA’s

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