Ansible Automation

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Fred van Zwieten

Senior Portfolio Solution Architect

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Integration, Q&A, Hardening

SLA, Support
Documentation, Training
Lifecycle Management,
3 Migration,
Certification
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Upstream Projects Products

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Ansible Automation Platform

Receptor, Podman, Automation Hub, Registry,
Collections, AWX, clustering, Ansible Operator, Integration, Q&A, Hardening
ansible-navigator, ansible-builder, VS Code, SLA, Support
Molecule, Ansible Core, Python, RHEL, UBI,
Documentation, Training
Execution Environments, Services Catalog,
Lifecycle Management,
Analytics, Insights, galaxy,
4 Migration,
PostGreSQL, etc, etc
Certification

Combining the universal automation
language with cloud services and
certified content for automating,
deploying, and operating applications,
infrastructure and services securely at
enterprise scale.
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Ansible automation
Providing scalable, secure implementation for describing,
building, and managing the deployment of enterprise IT
applications across diverse enterprise architectures.
Cloud services
Cloud services that facilitate team collaboration
and provide operational analytics for automating
heterogeneous, hybrid environments.
Certified content
Extends native platform capabilities with certified,
supported content designed to expand the automation
domain and accelerate adoption for enterprise customers.
 Holistic automation for your enterprise

Create ▸ Operate ▸ Consume ▸

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 Create

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 Create
The automation lifecycle

Build Ansible content experience

Content creators Red Hat cloud / on-premises

Discover
Automation hub

Ansible content domains

Infrastructure
Trust
Domain experts Cloud Network Security
Linux Windows

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 Developer Tooling

VS.code plugin ansible-builder

ansible-navigator Collections
 Collections
Simplified and consistent content delivery

What are they?

Collections are a data structure containing
automation content:
▸ Modules
▸ Playbooks
▸ Roles
▸ Plugins
▸ Docs
▸ Tests

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 100+
Infrastructure Cloud Network Security

certified platforms

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 Ansible Content Management
Value of Private Automation Hub

Developer Custom
IDE
enterprise content

Automation Hub
console.redhat.com

Content
SDK
Ansible Galaxy Private Red Hat Ansible
Automation Hub Automation Platform
cluster

Build Publish Deliver

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 Operate

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 Operate
The automation lifecycle

On-premises Ansible Cloud Services

Control
Automation hub Insights

Operators
Manage Automation controller Automation Mesh

Deploy Ansible command line

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 Automation Controller
Manage your automation

Credentials & RBAC

Workflows

Centralized Logging &

API & Audit Trail
Webhooks

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 Automation mesh
Simple, flexible and reliable scaling of execution capacity

Automation controller

Automate at a global scale

Simple, flexible and reliable way to scale automation of large
inventories across diverse network topologies and platforms.

Automation Mesh
Distributed overlay network
Overlay network which eases distributing automation execution
Establishes peer-to-peer connections between execution nodes
across existing networks hop node

Flexible architecture Remote Office Cloud Data center

Flexible architecture offers more design choices compared to
isolated nodes

execution node(s) execution nodes execution nodes

Execution node health
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Health checks performed on execution nodes
 Consumers Automation Mesh
Example architecture

ITSM

Public Cloud

Dynamic
Datacenter Automation Controller
provisioned
execution

Private Cloud Edge

DMZ OpenShift
cluster

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 Insights
Understand what is going on

Overview of the actual cluster, the jobs Overview across clusters, better insight into use
happening, the nodes connected, what works cases of automation; insight into adoption of
and fails right at this moment. automation per organization.

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 Consume

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 Self service
Provide others the mean to consume

For teams directly accessing the automation For high level access distant or not even aware of
environment and are close to the automation the underlying automation environment; lines of
platform processes. business for example.

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 Approval
Govern access

▸ Approval processes allow a human interaction to

the automation, to add governance like human
level administration.

▸ Both available at the operational level on the

Automation controller UI as well as in the service
catalog level.

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 IT service management
integration (ITSM)
Incorporate automation into your ITSM

▸ Integrate high level workflows in existing ITSM

toolsets with the automation platform.

▸ Have the automation platform reach out to the

ITSM system whenever things are changing,
including data transmission between the tools.

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 One subscription. One integrated platform. All enterprise-ready.
Automation controller
Automation control plane
Automation hub
Hosted certified content
repository.
Ansible Content Collections
100+ certified content
collections
Ansible Platform Operator
Package, deploy and manage
this platform on Red Hat
OpenShift
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Automation execution Automation mesh
environments Connectivity across diverse
Scalable packaging and enterprise automation
runtime execution plane environments
Automation services Red Hat Insights for Ansible
catalog Automation Platform
Self-service capability Visibility, predictive analytics
and more
Ansible-builder Ansible-navigator
Ansible containerized Execution environment
execution environment builder orchestration tooling
1+ 17+
Open source
Microsoft vs.code plugin components,
Write and manage Ansible integrated, ready
code with Visual Studio
to use with
lifecycle support
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