The document discusses deploying Red Hat solutions on AWS, highlighting benefits such as reduced downtime and lower total cost of ownership. It emphasizes the role of Ansible in automating application management and improving collaboration across IT teams. Various resources and contacts are provided for further information on getting started with Ansible and its applications in government settings.

1. Deploying Red Hat into AWS
July 2015

2. ABOUT THE PRESENTER
Justin Nemmers
@justnems
jnemmers@ansible.com
15+ years in US Public Sector
HPC administration background
Consulting
Technical Sales

3. Leverage cloud solutions and
acquisitions on a government-
wide basis wherever possible to
maximize economies of scale.
Dr. David McClure, GSA

4. 81.7%
Less downtime
“Quantifying the Business Value
of Amazon Web Services” – IDC
May 2015
64.3%
Lower TCO
118.4%
More applications delivered

5. Stable, flexible, and secure
open source foundation for
enterprise IT environments
and applications

6. TECHNOLOGY STACK
RED HAT
o Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6
o JBoss Application Server
AMAZON WEB SERVICES
o Virtual Private Cloud
o Elastic Compute Cloud
o Virtual Load Balancer
ANSIBLE
o Ansible Core
o Ansible Tower

7. WHAT’S HAPPENING
PROVISIONING
o Create EC2 instances
o Create Elastic Load balancer
DEPLOY CONFIGURATIONS
o JBoss app server + Configs
o Web Application
UPDATE APPLICATION
o Rolling update to v1.0 -> v1.1

8. DEMO ARCHITECTURE
ELB
RHEL 6
JBoss AS 7.1
Webapp
RHEL 6
JBoss AS 7.1
Webapp
Port 80
Port 8080Port 8080

9. Let’s see it, already.

10. DEVOPS NEEDS AUTOMATION
ENABLES REUSE
o Leverage existing people, processes, and (often)
technology
INCREASES SAVINGS
o Free up time for value add
SPANS SILOS
o Keep teams working efficiently with easy interaction
CREATES REPEATABILITY
o Lather, rinse, repeat

11. THE LANGUAGE OF ENTERPRISE IT
o Ansible is the first “infrastructure-as-code” that can be read and written
across IT… from sys-admins to developers to managers
o Ansible is the only automation engine that can automate the entire
application lifecycle & continuous delivery pipeline
DEV/TES
T
Q/A OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT INFRASTRUCTUR
E
Ansible Playbook
From development… to production.

12. BENEFITS
REDUCES TIME TO DELIVERY
o Development and QA get access to prod-configured resources more quickly
IMPROVES COLLABORATION
o Consumers of servers have clear method to define and request changes
ELIMINATES OUTLIERS
o Old systems look the same as new systems
INCREASES ASSURANCE
o Initial and ongoing compliance validation
EASES TROUBLESHOOTING
o Something breaks? Compare existing to definition for immediate transparency
PROMOTES ADOPTION
o Automation doesn’t remove responsibility from concerned teams

13. RESOURCES
GETTING STARTED WITH ANSIBLE
o www.ansible.com/get-started
ANSIBLE GOVERNMENT
o www.ansible.com/government
o www.dlt.com/ansible
STIG WEBINAR
o www.ansible.com/ansible-stig-compliance-webinar
ANSIBLE MEETUPS NEAR YOU
o www.ansible.com/ansible-meetups

14. CONTACT US
DLT Solutions | Enterprise Solutions Team
www.dlt.com/ansible
877.742.8358
enterprise-platforms@dlt.com

15. Learn More
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