Open Demo: Ansible Automation 4/27/20

A second demonstration of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 1.2. View the first edition here: https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/15137/455245.

This session is presented by:
Sean Cavanaugh, Technical Marketing Manager - Ansible Network Automation,
Kaete Piccirilli, Senior Manager,
Colin McNaughton, Principal Technical Marketing Manager - Ansible Automation at Red Hat

Automation is critical to managing, changing, and adapting not only your SAP infrastructure, but also the way your business operates through its processes. By simplifying change through automation, you gain time and energy to focus on innovation. In this session, we’ll show you how automation can reduce your installation time. We’ll cover how to:

● Help organizations lower cost, innovate, and increase productivity as part of their SAP modernization journey through end-to-end automation.
● Set up a new SAP HANA server in under an hour.
● Patch their SAP infrastructure quickly and with security.
● Reduce planned downtime to nearly zero.
● More easily manage their hybrid cloud infrastructure.

Organizations adopt automation to minimize the time and errors associated with manual configuration processes. Enterprise-wide automation is attractive because it provides scalability and agility, accelerating outcomes with consistent and repeatable processes that support a DevOps culture. While the promise of enterprise-wide automation is appealing, without a well-defined strategy, tooling, and people-centered approach, the benefits are quickly lost to constant change and lack of clarity. In this session, we’ll discuss proven approaches to implementing automation at scale using Red Hat® Ansible® Automation Platform. Join us to find out about key steps and considerations that promote success with an automation-first enterprise.

The conflict of system availability needs for business value vs. the necessity of system security and maintenance downtime is a seemingly unresolvable conflict. This session is designed to walk attendees through the technical and business processes of building an automated solution with patching as an example use case. Using Red Hat® Ansible® Automation Platform, we will develop an automated solution while simultaneously pointing out opportunities for change in communication, business value, and culture.

DevOps merges technologies, tools, and mindsets. It is a journey—not a destination. Therefore, enterprises should take a strategic approach to DevOps with the right mix of technologies, people, and most importantly, an ecosystem that serves as a foundation for modern and future applications. This ecosystem should promote continuous technology innovation that differentiates the business.
In this session, E.G.Nadhan will cover:
- Best practices that have worked for multiple Red Hat® customers.
- Five tips that can make IT modernization an easier experience overall.
- Steps that can be taken to advance the DevOps journey both from a “top down” and a “bottom up” perspective.

There’s no way around it—automation requires storing and handling credentials. Whether it’s a password, a private key, or a cloud provider access key, Ansible Vault lets you store and retrieve them more securely. However, as your DevOps toolchain expands, you’ll likely find you need your non-Ansible tools to handle these credentials as well. In this session, you’ll find out how to use a third party secrets management system, HashiCorp Vault, in conjunction with Red Hat® Ansible® Automation Platform to make safeguarding your credentials and other sensitive data dynamic and automated.