Automation using ansible - practical with industry use case session with best industry experts.

Yesterday, had a great experience with two best experts Mr.Sreejith Anujan sir he is The Principal Instructor at Red Hat and Mr.Arun Eapen sir (Director, APAC Service Delivery, GLS RedHat Asia Pacific)

The session was on practical demo of automation using ansible and industry use case. It was very helpful session for me, I got to know many new things like ansible tower and its features.

I am going share what I learnt from yesterdays session…

What is automation?

Automation is a technology which eliminates most of manual work in any tasks. Automation is very easy way to handle multiple tasks at a time, that is the reason industry in moving toward technology like automation.

Automation using Ansible

Ansible is a open source platform for automation in cloud provisioning, configuration management, application deployment, intra-service orchestration, and many other IT needs.

Ansible tower

Ansible Tower is a web-based solution that makes Ansible even more easy to use for IT teams of all kinds. It’s designed to be the hub for all of your automation tasks.

features:

1.Multi-playbook workflow

multi-playbook workflow helps when we want to run one playbook after another and also we can create option in workflow if one way doesn’t work then run other option.

2. Real time job status updates

Ansible tower shows job updates like completed, failed or active.

3. Handles credentials for cloud services like AWS, IBM cloud,etc

When you assign a job to a team, you can give grant to use credentials without giving them actual credentials.

4. Job templates

Job templates are use to run same task many times . First you need to create template and then use it.

5. Notification

A Notification is a manifestation of the notification template; for example, when a job fails, a notification is sent using the configuration defined by the notification template.

there are many more features in ansible tower. I found Ansible Tower most interesting topic yesterday.

Thank you very much Vimal Daga sir and Preeti Chandak mam for this session.