In this webinar, David Federlein gives an overview of the best practices to evaluate and use Ansible within your organization and infrastructure. This webinar is for anyone new to Ansible to give a general overview. Please note, this webinar is not technical in nature but rather a good summary of what you need to know to get started with automation.
Topics Covered:
Typical organizational/management challenges and how to overcome them
Automation versus Orchestration
How to share playbooks with other teams/orgs
The commit workflow
Single panes of pain
How to determine what Ansible can do for your teams
What are the project goals?
What teams/stakeholders need to be at the table?
Prerequisites for installation and deployment with Ansible Core
Install requirements for Ansible host and remote machines
Connection credentials and protocols
How to organize your inventory
How Ansible Core and Ansible Tower fit together
What problem does Ansible Core solve?
What problem does Ansible Tower solve?
How they work together
Who Should Watch:
Anyone new to Ansible and needing a high-level overview of how Ansible and Tower work
Developers, Operations Engineers, Systems Administrators, IT Directors