This document discusses the importance and benefits of automation. It notes that 65% of organizations report lack of talent as a challenge and 67% plan to use automation to reduce headcount needs. Automation can improve efficiency, reduce costs, and improve predictability. Ansible is presented as a way to achieve automation across multiple technologies like cloud, containers, networks and operating systems in an easy and agentless manner. Case studies show benefits like reduced configuration time, improved deployment speed, and decreased maintenance costs through the use of automation with tools like Ansible and Ansible Tower.

1. THE WORLD IS AUTOMATING
Those who succeed in automation will win

2. AUTOMATED ENTERPRISE
ENABLE AND EMPOWER WITH OPEN SOURCE
AUTOMATION
Anirban Mukherjee
Business Development
Director, Cloud Platforms for
Asia Pacific
Kingsley Wood
Senior Director, Business Strategy
and Development, Asia Pacific

3. AUTOMATION IS KEY TO BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION
CIO SURVEY 2018
TALENT SHORTAGE
65%
Report a lack of talent
holding their
organisation back
67%
Plan to use automation
to remove the need for
additional headcount
46%
Use outsourcing to
access skills. Cost
savings is a lower
priority

4. “Technology organizations are rapidly seeking
ways to automate operations and dedicate
more talent to business-enabling and
future-thinking projects.
Source: Forrester

5. AUTOMATION IS KEY TO BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION
$BFY18 Addressable
Automation Opportunity
“Digital business gives IT infrastructure
and operations leaders a mandate to implement
organization-wide automation…
The benefits are compelling – automation improves
accountability, efficiency and predictability,
while reducing cost, variability and risk…”
Automation: The Next Frontier for IT Gartner

6. AUTOMATION IS THE SWEET SPOT
86%
Automation is either
critical or very
important to future
cloud strategy.
79%
Of IT organizations will need
to deploy new management
and automation software
between now and 2020.
6 SOURCE: IDC InfoBrief, sponsored by Red Hat, DevOps Agility Demands Advanced Management and Automation, December 2017

7. Automation happens when one person meets
a problem they never want to solve again

8. FOR I.T. ORGANIZATIONS, THE RISE IS INEVITABLE
TOOLS
CHANGE
COMPLEXITY
EXPECTATIONS

9. AUTOMATION MAKES THE RISE MANAGEABLE
TOOLS CHANGE COMPLEXITY EXPECTATIONS

10. ACCELERATE INTEGRATE COLLABORATE

11. WE’RE NOT JUST SOLVING
PROBLEMS TODAY
IT OPS

12. BUT EMPOWERING YOUR
TEAMS FOR THE FUTURE
IT OPS DEVOPS SECURITYINFRASTRUCTURE NETWORK

14. 17
1900+
Ansible modules
36,000+
Stars on GitHub
500,000+
Downloads a month

15. 1 million
4 YEARS
2 million
7 MONTHS
MANAGED SYSTEMS

16. INTERNET OF THINGS
WORKSTATIONS
NETWORKS
CONTAINERS
MIDDLEWARE
SERVERS
CONFIGURATIONS
LINUX
APPLICATIONS
CLOUDS
DATABASES
WINDOWS

17. “Anybody can pick up the basics in an hour and
be productive in less than a day.”
Jeff Geerling
Author:
Ansible for DevOps: Server and Configuration Management for Humans

18. SIMPLE POWERFUL AGENTLESS
App deployment
Configuration management
Workflow orchestration
Network automation
Human readable automation
No special coding skills needed
Tasks executed in order
Usable by every team
Agentless architecture
Uses OpenSSH & WinRM
No agents to exploit or update
Get started immediately
WHY ANSIBLE IS VIRALLY ADOPTED
GET PRODUCTIVE QUICKLY
ORCHESTRATE
THE APP LIFECYCLE
MORE EFFICIENT
& MORE SECURE

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RED HAT ANSIBLE TOWER
RED HAT ANSIBLE ENGINE
Scale + operationalize your automation
Support for your Ansible automation
CONTROL KNOWLEDGE DELEGATION
SIMPLE POWERFUL AGENTLESS
FUELED BY AN INNOVATIVE OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITY

20. WHAT CAN I DO USING ANSIBLE?
Automate the deployment and management of your entire IT footprint.
Orchestration
Do this...
Firewalls
Configuration
Management
Application
Deployment
Provisioning
Continuous
Delivery
Security and
Compliance
On these...
Load Balancers Applications Containers Clouds
Servers Infrastructure Storage And more...Network Devices

21. CLOUD VIRT & CONTAINER WINDOWS NETWORK DEVOPS MONITORING
ANSIBLE AUTOMATES TECHNOLOGIES YOU USE
Time to automate is measured in minutes
AWS
Azure
Digital Ocean
Google
OpenStack
Rackspace
+more
Docker
VMware
Red Hat
Virtualization
OpenStack
OpenShift
+more
ACLs
Files
Packages
IIS
Regedits
Shares
Services
Configs
Users
Domains
+more
Arista
A10
Cumulus
Bigswitch
Cisco
Cumulus
Dell
F5
Juniper
Palo Alto
OpenSwitch
+more
Jira
GitHub
Vagrant
Jenkins
Bamboo
Atlassian
Subversion
Slack
Hipchat
+more
Dynatrace
Airbrake
BigPanda
Datadog
LogicMonitor
Nagios
New Relic
PagerDuty
Sensu
StackDriver
Zabbix
+more
STORAGE
NetApp
Red Hat Storage
Infinidat
+more
OPERATING
SYSTEMS
Red Hat
Enterprise Linux
and Linux
UNIX
Windows
+more

22. INTEGRATED ENTERPRISE IT AUTOMATION
Service catalogs &
governance
Full stack monitoring
Root cause Analytics
Capacity Optimization
Cloud Financial Mgt
Security & Compliance
Config & Provision
Patch & Remediate
ITSM & CMDB IntegrationPrivate Clouds AWS Azure Google
CI/CD Pipelines
& Code Repositories
Kubernetes Container
Orchestration Platforms
Container packaging platform
Traditional code development
& deployment tooling
Databases
Middleware Bare metal
VMs
SaaS/PaaS
OS
Network and storage infrastructure
X-cloud Portability & Integrations
IT
AUTOMATION

23. 3
ROI ON ANSIBLE TOWER
146%
< MONTHS
PAYBACK ON ANSIBLE TOWER
FINANCIAL SUMMARY:
SOURCE: "The Total Economic Impact™ Of Red Hat Ansible Tower, a June 2018 commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Red Hat."
redhat.com/en/engage/total-economic-impact-ansible-tower-20180710
BY THE NUMBERS:
Reduction in recovery time
following a security incident
94%
84%
Savings by deploying workloads
to generic systems appliances
using Ansible Tower
67% Reduction in man hours required
for customer deliveries

24. MANAGING NETWORKS
HASN’T CHANGED
IN 30 YEARS.

25. NETWORKS ARE DRIVEN MANUALLY

27. MEASURING SUCCESS EXAMPLE
BEFORE AFTER
A large global hotel chain needs to manage the VPN
configuration for 3000 locations
1. 15 minutes to populate
variables in YAML
1. Schedule in Tower
2. Updated in days
1. Fill out a Word doc
config template
1. Manually push
2. Updated in 2 years

28. ANSIBLE NETWORK AUTOMATION
ansible.com/for/networks
galaxy.ansible.com/ansible-network
Ansible Network modules comprise 1/3 of all modules that ship with Ansible Engine
700+
Network
Modules
50
Network
Platforms
12*
Galaxy
Network Roles

29. A10
Apstra AOS
Arista EOS, CVP
Aruba Networks
AVI Networks
Big Switch Networks
Brocade Ironware
Cisco ACI, AireOS, ASA, Firepower,
IOS, IOS-XR, Meraki, NSO, NX-OS
Citrix Netscaler
Cumulus Linux
Dell OS6, OS9, OS10
MikroTik RouterOS
Openswitch (OPX)
Ordnance
NETCONF
Netvisor
OpenSwitch
Open vSwitch (OVS)
Palo Alto PAN-OS
Nokia NetAct, SR OS
Ubiquiti EdgeOS
VyOS
NETWORK MODULES: BUILT-IN DEVICE ENABLEMENT
Exoscale
Extreme EX-OS, NOS,
SLX-OS, VOSS
F5 BIG-IP, BIG-IQ
Fortinet FortIOS, FMGR
Huawei CloudEngine
Illumos
Infoblox NIOS
Juniper JunOS
Lenovo CNOS, ENOS
Mellanox ONYX

30. USE CASES

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INFRASTRUCTURE
OS Configuration Management
Customer Challenge
Costly maintenance and poor SLAs in a
mixed multiple operating systems
environment.
Value
Predictable and repeatable process,
mitigating risks of service downtime.
75%
CHANGED
DELIVERY TIME
50%
REDUCED IT
MANAGEMENT TIME
BY THE NUMBERS:
CUSTOMERS:

33. 37
INFRASTRUCTURE
Virtual Infrastructure / Public Cloud
Customer Challenge
Empower innovation and improve Time-to-
Market
Value
Deliver virtual and cloud resources faster,
from weeks to few minutes, with
consistency and zero errors among
multiple clouds.
97%
REDUCED
CONFIGURATION TIME
FROM 1500 HOURS TO 42
HOURS ,
0
HUMAN ERRORS HAVE
DROPPED TO 0 -
INCREASED UPTIME
FROM 87% to 99.999%
BY THE NUMBERS:
CUSTOMERS:

34. 38
Customer Challenge
Unreliable applications and services, with
poor quality and high incidence of
regressions.
Value
Empower teams to perform reliable tests
and integration with CI/CD systems.
10
MINUTES INSTEAD OF TWO
HOURS FOR TEST VMS
1
DAY ADOPTING
ANSIBLE
BY THE NUMBERS:
CUSTOMERS:
APPLICATIONS
Continuous Integration and Delivery

35. 39
Customer Challenge
Deploy network configuration consistently.
Trace & Audit configuration change
Reducing time for Troubleshooting
Value
Standardization best-practices enforcement
to scale operations and reduce MTTR.
Decrease time required to identify and
remediate issues. Perform preventive
maintenance, reducing outage risks
BY THE NUMBERS:
CUSTOMERS:
NETWORK
Configuration Consistency, Troubleshooting, Compliance & Traceability
3000
HOURS PER YEAR SAVED
$2.8B
SAVINGS
DELIVERING 460%
3 YEAR ROI

36. AUTOMATION SUCCESS PATH

37. AUTOMATION SUCCESS PATH
DISCOVERY SESSION
1-3 Days
AUTOMATION PILOT
3+ Weeks
CONTINUOUS
AUTOMATION
Ongoing
RED HAT DRIVES
COLLABORATIVE
CUSTOMER DRIVES

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Want to learn more?
Videos, webinars, case studies, whitepapers:
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GETTING STARTED
Kingsley Wood
kwood@redhat.com
linkedin.com/in/kingsleywood
Anirban Mukherjee
anirban@redhat.com
linkedin.com/in/anmukherjee
@anirbanmukh