Easily Build and Integrate Microservices with Red Hat Fuse and Openshift

Incorporating IT automation is key to managing large numbers of systems and applications efficiently and consistently at scale. Ansible® can be used across a wide array of cloud providers, DevOps tools, and operating systems–including Microsoft Windows.

Red Hat® Training has developed a new course, Microsoft Windows Automation with Red Hat Ansible (DO417), designed for Windows Server professionals without previous Ansible experience. In this course, students will use Ansible to write automation playbooks for Windows systems to perform common system administration tasks that can be reproduced at scale. Students will use Red Hat Ansible Tower, a component of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform to securely manage and run Ansible Playbooks from a central, web-based user interface.

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Automation requires an investment in time, technology, and people. Make the most of your investment with an enterprise automation platform that delivers agility and flexibility.

Solve problems once. Scale automation with control and insight. Collaborate across teams. Manage policy enforcement and governance. Bring the power of automation to your whole organization.

Public Cloud is the perfect target for automation, and particularly Ansible Automation. There are modules and specific guidelines for all the main public clouds, and documentation on how to bring the power of Ansible Automation to your cloud project.

The Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is one of the main public cloud platforms underlying HSBC’s move to “Cloud Only” infrastructure. The automation of GCP can easily be performed using Ansible Automation, with 128 modules (at last count) available, as well as the standard roles, playbooks and capabilities you are used to. Ansible allows you to make use of exactly the same simple framework and language that you can use for the rest of the Enterprise IT stack.

This webinar, exclusively for HSBC, will cover the general ideas behind working with public cloud, then go into more detail on working with GCP. We will give you an understanding of how Ansible Automation works to automate the creation, modification and removal of GCP resources. We will explain some simple use cases for GCP that you can start using straight away.

Joining us on the webinar is the HSBC Central Ansible Tower Service team. They will talk about where Ansible Tower is already being used to automate key workflows in HSBC projects on GCP and some of the future plans.
Solve problems once. Scale automation with control and insight. Collaborate across teams. Manage policy enforcement and governance. Bring the power of automation to your whole organization.

In the world of containers and DevOps, Docker has become the most common standard to perform all the necessary operations around registries, images, and containers. With the introduction of the CRI-O project, we see a container engine that is a stable and security-focused platform for running Open Container Initiative (OCI) compatible runtimes instead of traditional Docker.

To fully visualize the vast landscape of container technology, a solid understanding of the tools and their uses is essential. For example, Buildah offers simple container creation with or without a Dockerfile. With the power of Ansible®, you can extend the power of tools like Buildah to deploy your application on OpenShift®.

In this session, we’ll cover:

How to manage non-Docker container images.
How to use Ansible Playbooks with Buildah and Skopeo to manage image and registry operations.
The advantages the CRI-O project can provide your organization.

Automation is a must-have capability for modern enterprise IT. As the automation market is maturing, Ansible is creating new possibilities for scale, collaboration, and speed. Listen to the insights on the continued evolution Ansible Automation.

Security is hard. We know what needs to be done, but configuring systems and applications, especially thousands of them, to make life more difficult for attackers is daunting. Learn to use the agentless, push-based power of Red Hat Ansible Automation to apply and enforce security standards that adapt to meet internal and external security guidelines.

In the past, quarterly production deployments took place overnight with a team of people on call to get a release working. Deployments were expensive, complex, inconsistent, and frustrating on so many levels.

Since then, IT teams have implemented automation solutions such as Red HatⓇ AnsibleⓇ Automation to help make deployments easier, faster, and more consistent. Ansible Automation can take some time to master, but learning the tool is seldom a problem for most organizations.
There are, however, other challenges organizations might encounter when implementing an automation solution. For example, technical, process, and behavioral challenges can impact their ability to fully benefit from an automation solution.

In this session, we will offer some best practices to cut through these challenges and turn your project into a success, including:

•The importance of standards.
•Why naming matters.
•Failing early, failing fast, and becoming a learning organization

Introducing automation into your security practices is easy, but planning is required to ensure to implement it in production and at scale. Learn how to architect your Security Automation practice with Ansible, future-proofing its usage to speed up threat analysis and perform remediations.

Watch the replay of the Microservices, Containers, APIs and Integration day panel session featuring Red Hat experts and Jeffrey S. Hammond of Forrester Research. The panel discusses their real-time experiences of helping customers implement open source technology, and responds to questions from a live audience. Recorded May 21, 2019 in Chicago, IL.

Learn how to build an API-focused agile integration solution using capabilities from traditional integration, messaging to microservices using tools designed to create cloud-based scalable solutions. The session includes live demos of popular open source solutions.

About the speaker:
Christina Lin is the Technical Marketing Manager for Red Hat Middleware Integration Products. She helps to grow market awareness and establish thought leadership for Fuse, AMQ and 3scale. By creating online videos, getting started blogs and also spoke at many conference around the globe. She has worked in software integration for the finance, telecom, and manufacturing industries, mostly architectural design and implementation. These real life system experiences helps her to be practical and combining open source technology, she hopes to bring more innovative ideas for the future system development.