WWT presentation for Red Hat at CiscoLive 2018 #CLUS

1. { Under the Hood }
J O E L W K I N G - e n g i n e e r i n g a n d i n n o v a t i o n s
@joel_w_king

2. An enterprise-wide
automation strategy
must benefit individuals first.
INDIVIDUAL TEAM ENTERPRISE

3. 1101111010101101
DATA
(SOURCE OF TRUTH)
PROCESS
(TASKS)
INFRASTRUCTURE
BUSINESS REQUIREMENTS
F5 IT AUTOMATION POD
DESIRED STATE
KNOWLEDGE
EXPERIENCE

4. ACI Contracts, Subjects
and Filters generated
by Application Dependency
Mapping (ADM)
using Cisco Tetration
Workflow is defined by
playbooks and requirement
files: include Ansible
roles to define network
configuration
Credentials,
Playbooks,
Roles,
and variables
stored in version control
Version
Control
GitHub
Workflow
Ansible
Playbooks
Source of Truth
YAML
NoSQL
IPAM
Analytics
Cisco
Tetration
END-USER
ACI
Business
Outcome
One Source of Truth for
Configuration Data:
MongoDB
Infoblox
YAML and CSV files
programmatically consumable

5. END-USER
ACI
BUSINESS
OUTCOME
ATC Automation
ACI Automation
F5 Automation
Deployment role
Playbook(s)
requirements.yml
F5 and ACI roles
pre-packaged units of work
Identify & Incorporate
Consume & Execute

7. Modular framework
Roles, units of work, are included into Ansible PlayBooks
Configuration library
Data Model, sources and sinks of data within the system
Integrating units of work
Roles and the Data Model are combined in a
deployment to create the desired business outcome
Booth #1601