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Automating Splunk
Configuration
Mark Phillips
Topics
• Which tool?
• Demo: Configuration storage
• Demo: Enabling forwarding
• Demo: Installing and managing forwarders
• Demo: Maintaining apps
About Me
• Linux tinkerer since 1992
• Automating stuff since 1993
• “Done time” in small organisations through to
Investment Banks
• I’m lazy
–Albert Einstein
“Make everything as simple as
possible, but not simpler”
Infrastructure as code
Ansible
• Agent less
• SSH for transport
• Common language - YAML
• Easy to learn quickly
Learn More
• Slides from DevOps Cardif (Puppet vs Chef vs Ansible)
• Blog post I wrote last year
• Splunk's recent blog on Splunk + Ansible
• Get started with Ansible
El Reg: "Are your servers PETS or CATTLE?"
(The Splunk GUI is fine for managing a small estate)
(But as you get larger, really you need more help: automation)
Demos
Github repo used to build the demos:
http://github.com/phips/splunkbox/tree/jldemo
Ansible Tower
http://www.ansible.com/tower
Mark Phillips
mark@vntx.cc
@vntxuk
Blog: probably.co.uk

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