This PPT in pdf format is aiming to present the Significance of Ansible inteded to audience from beginner to intermediate level

1. Significance of RedHat
Ansible
Vijaya Nirmala,
IBM GTS Labs,
RedHat Center of Excellence

2. Significance of Ansible
Agenda:
● What is Ansible
● Features of Ansible
● How Ansible works
● Use cases
● Application Deployments & Configuration Management
● Devops Integrations with Ansible
● Ansible Tower
● Integrations with Public Cloud
● Ansible with various domains/aspects of IT
● How to start with Ansible

3. Significance of Ansible
Ansible Features
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5. Significance of Ansible - Use Cases
Infrastructure Provisioning Configuration Management
Application Deployments

6. Significance of Ansible - Application Deployments
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7. Significance of Ansible - Integration with CI Tools
Continuous Integration:
● Included as a step in CI/CD pipeline
● Well integrates and supports modules for handshake
● Plugins

8. Significance of Ansible - Configuration Management

9. Significance of Ansible - Rolling Update

10. Significance of Ansible - Galaxy
What is Ansible Galaxy:
● Commonly used utilities/scripts are uploaded as Roles by
Community
● Register, search, find and download any role
● Create & upload new role

11. Significance of Ansible - Devops Integration

12. Significance of Ansible
Features of Ansible Tower:
● Role based access Control
● Web based UI for Ansible
● Push button basis deployment access
● Centralized logging
● Schedule & Run the playboks as Jobs with debugging

13. Significance of Ansible - Public Cloud Integration
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14. Significance of Ansible - Infrastructure Automation
Use Case:
● Organizations with own data center or bare metal servers, setup and configuration
of servers
● Redhat Ansible and Stacki can build a robust, production grade fully automatic
data center with its modules and integrations
● install, configure OS, configure RAID card, Database configuration settings,
deploy cloud, big data setup or Linux clusters

15. Significance of Ansible - Network Automation
Redhat Ansible provides all network modules individually for Windows
and Linux and makes the conventionally repeated activities and
transforms into an potential automation
Advantages
● Validate the existing network for compliance and risk analysis
● Consistent Network configurations
● Parameterized Network setup

16. Significance of Ansible - Security Automation
Scope:
Security Automation helps in automating and integrating varied security solutions by
using Redhat Ansible modules, roles and playbooks
How:
1. Custom made security modules that could be developed for business needs
and/or
2. by way of downloading and/or enhancing collection & roles from Ansible Galaxy
Benefits:
1. Monitor enterprise wide systems for security threat(s)
2. Analyze the incidents
3. Incident Response/Remediation

17. Significance of Ansible - Security Automation
Enterprise Firewalls:
● controls traffic from between networks and also access to the
applications in internet or intranet.
● Protecting line of Business by controlling traffic in/out
● This is achieved by manipulating policies' revisions and log
configuration

18. Significance of Ansible - Security Automation
Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems(IDPS):
● monitors network traffic for suspicious activities, intrusions and alerts &
blocks attacks
● RedHat Ansible simplifies and makes rule and log management more
efficient by enabling rule based development of plays

19. Security Information and Event Management(SIEM):
● collecting & analyzing of security events in order to help in analysis &
response/resolutions of threats
● RedHat Ansible provides program access to wide variety of security
related data sources for security admins to assess and action
Significance of Ansible - Security Automation

20. Privileged Access Management Toos(PAM):
● Tools to monitor privileged accounts’ access and handles single
sign-on(SSO); supersedes hardcoded passwords for services/Apps
● RedHat Ansible streamlines by managing the rotation of privileged
credentials and password to eliminating high-risk attacks
Significance of Ansible - Security Automation

21. Significance of Ansible - Storage
RedHat Ansible provisions and maintains three types of Storage
● Software defined Storage(removes s/w dependency on proprietary h/w)
● Cloud based Storage(Public Cloud like AWS)
● Hardware Storage Appliances' configuration
Ansible modules for each of the solutions' purpose. Basically, Modules in Ansible
are discrete units of code, which can be executed from command line or can be
called from within a playbook

22. Significance of Ansible Software Defined Storage
IBM Spectrum Accelerate
● powerful, highly-agile, software defined storage solutions built on IBM
XIV storage for Enterprise environments and Cloud Infrastructures
● Ansible leverages the support of this storage implementation
automation by way of the Storage Modules specifically for IBM SA

23. Significance of Ansible - Flash Storage
Pure Storage:
● Enterprise level Flash Storage Solutions like Flash Array and Flash
Blades
● Ansible enables Flash Storage or Flash Blades automation by delivering
consistency and repeatability.
● Ansible modules right from Volumes, Hosts to Directory Services are
created, validated and readily available as modules for storage solutions
configuration automation

24. Significance of Ansible - Hardware Software Storage
NetApp:
● Hardware/Software based Storage Solutions with exhaustive list of
Ansible Modules
● Ansible modules are qualified by NetApp for automation of Storage
solution deployment and configuration
● With readily available modules for NetApp setup, teams can create roles
as & integrate into CI/CD processes

25. Significance of Ansible - Virtualization
RedHat Ansible supports industry leading Virtualization vendors like VMWare, RHV,
Zenserver, Vagrant and Operating Systems for these as Linux (RHEL, CentOS,
Fedora, Ubuntu, and others), Windows and Windows Server, UNIX and IBM z/OS
RedHat Ansible has whole lot of modules, 50+ modules readily available for
implementing VMWare virtualization tasks automation along with below activities
● Managing VSphere data centers, Hosts, Clusters
● VM templates, snapshot management
● vSwtiches, DNS Settings, Firewall definitions and many more

26. Significance of Ansible - RedHat Virtualization
Key factors:
● RHV since version 4.1 comes Ansible ready
● Ansible is stands to perform with ease & efficiency for RHV when compared
against the other options of REST APIs, and/or SDKs
● Modules in Ansible for RHV supports activities like data center setup, creation
of instances. images, managing users and other VM operations

27. RedHat Ansible Cloud Modules:
● Being a powerful, agentless and dynamic automation tool for provisioning the
resources/services
● Application and/or configuration deployments on Cloud resources
Ansible achieves this by having over 300+ and yet a growing list of modules being
created against each of the Cloud providers. Other Cloud providers includes
openstack, Heroku etc
Significance of Ansible - Public Cloud Providers

28. Significance of Ansible - Containers
The Next:
RedHat Ansible accelerates Container journey from an automation perspective
by supporting Containers on Cloud
How:
Docker ---------------------------> Ansible Modules
Kubernetes/Openshift ---------------------------> Ansible Galaxy Roles

29. Significance of Ansible - Example

30. Significance of Ansible - Gear up !!
Links & Documentation:
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/index.html
Ansible galaxy:
https://galaxy.ansible.com/docs/finding/index.html
Online parser:
https://yaml-online-parser.appspot.com/

31. Significance of Ansible
Thankyou !!!
RedHat Center of Excellence
IBM GTS Labs