Automating the Enterprise with CloudForms & Ansible
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The document discusses the need for IT service delivery automation in response to competitive pressures for faster, scalable, and efficient service provision. It highlights the role of Red Hat CloudForms and Ansible in enabling organizations to streamline their infrastructure management and improve operational efficiency through automation. Success stories demonstrate significant time and cost savings achieved by companies utilizing these solutions.
Automating the Enterprise with CloudForms & Ansible
- 1. Automating the Enterprise with CloudForms & Ansible Jerome Marc Technical Marketing Engineer Management BU, Red Hat June 2017
- 2. TODAY’S AGENDA ● Organization requirements & challenges for IT service delivery ● IT Automation as a foundation & Red Hat Management ● Red Hat CloudForms for Self-Service, Visibility & Governance ● Customer Successes
- 3. DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION DRIVING DRAMATIC CHANGES IN IT LINE OF BUSINESS Challenged to deliver services faster, at scale, and more efficiently DEVELOPERS Need to develop applications faster with greater productivity IT OPERATIONS Must provide infrastructure agility, on-demand that scales as needed CEO Competitive pressure driving digital transformation “The business environment today is pushing companies to respond to ever increasing competition. In order to remain competitive, they have to deliver their services faster, at greater scale, and do so efficiently in order to remain profitable. These demands drive application developers to create new applications and deliver them faster. This further places stress on the IT Operations team who has to provide a scalable, on-demand infrastructure that can service the Developers.”
- 4. LINE OF BUSINESS DEVELOPERS IT OPERATIONS CEO IT OPERATIONS BEARS THE BURDEN
- 5. ORGANIZATION NEEDS What does this mean??? IT OPERATIONS $$$$$
- 7. BUSINESS HAS CHANGED — IN RESPONSE, IT OPERATIONS NEEDS TO CHANGE LINE OF BUSINESS Challenged to deliver services faster, at scale, and more efficiently DEVELOPERS Need to develop applications faster with greater productivity IT OPERATIONS Must provide infrastructure on-demand that scales as needed 74% expect to buy new management solutions to support open hybrid clouds and next-generation application architectures. Do you believe you will need to purchase new management software solutions between now and 2017?N=201 74% Yes 11% No 15% Unsure
- 8. CONTROL & INSIGHTS INTO IT
- 11. REPORTING
- 12. NEW TECHNOLOGIES
- 13. ROADBLOCKS Where shall I start? IT OPERATIONS So much to do.. INSIGHTS CONTROL AUTOMATION REPORTS
- 15. SHADOW IT / LACK OF VISIBILITY
- 16. PACE OF BUSINESS
- 17. NEW TOOLS FOR CLOUD
- 19. Everyone is talking about automation.
- 20. 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... ...so why aren’t more organizations further down the automation path? Automation: The Next Frontier for IT May 18, 2016 - Susan Moore
- 21. SERVERS CLOUD NETWORK APPS CONTAINERS AUTOMATION IN ENTERPRISE IT TODAY
- 22. AUTOMATED SILOS ARE SILOS STILL AUTOMATION IN ENTERPRISE IT TODAY
- 23. Ansible solves these problems where no other technology has been able to do so. SIMPLE AGENTLESS EXTENSIBLE
- 24. DEV QA/SECURITY IT OPERATIONSBUSINESS ANSIBLE IS THE UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE
- 25. AUTOMATION ACROSS RED HAT MANAGEMENT ???
- 26. BUILD A TRUSTED & SECURE RED HAT ENVIRONMENT Manage the Red Hat Lifecycle Provision & Configure at Scale Standardize Your Environment RED HAT MANAGEMENT AND AUTOMATION FOR IT OPERATIONS DELIVER SERVICES ACROSS YOUR HYBRID CLOUD Hybrid Cloud Management Self-Service Provisioning Policy-driven Compliance CENTRALIZE AUTOMATION GOVERNANCE Centralized Control Team & User Delegation Audit Trail PREVENT CRITICAL ISSUES BEFORE THEY OCCUR Continuous Insights Verified Knowledge Proactive Resolution AUTOMATE YOUR I.T. PROCESSES & DEPLOYMENTS
- 28. STORAGE NETWORKSCONTAINERS PUBLIC CLOUD COMPLIANCE AND GOVERNANCE Responsibly enabling users and developers, without being in the way. SELF-SERVICE AND SERVICE MANAGEMENT Automate and delegate service delivery processes, saving time and money. Improve resource utilization and operational efficiency. VISIBILITY, EFFICIENCY AND OPTIMIZATION RED HAT CLOUDFORMS Cloud Management Platform PRIVATE CLOUD MIDDLEWAREVIRTUAL MULTI-CLOUD, MULTI-SERVICE ORCHESTRATION & AUTOMATION
- 29. COMPLIANCE AND GOVERNANCE Responsibly enabling users and developers, without being in the way. SELF-SERVICE AND SERVICE MANAGEMENT Automate and delegate service delivery processes, saving time and money. Improve resource utilization and operational efficiency. VISIBILITY, EFFICIENCY AND OPTIMIZATION RED HAT CLOUDFORMS Cloud Management Platform MULTI-CLOUD, MULTI-SERVICE ORCHESTRATION & AUTOMATION DEV QA/SECURITY IT OPERATIONSBUSINESS
- 30. AGENTLESS ANSIBLE AUTOMATION MULTI-TENANCY AND RBAC FEDERATED GLOBAL DEPLOYMENTS VIRTUAL APPLIANCE CONTINUOUS DISCOVERY EASY INSTALL, EASY MAINTENANCE SIMPLE, POWERFUL, AGENTLESS SEGMENT USER ACCESS, FINE GRAINED ACCESS CONTROL HIGHLY SCALABLE, HIGHLY AVAILABLE MULTI-REGION DEPLOYMENTS BROWN-FIELD MANAGEMENT, INTEROPERATES WITH OTHER MGMTEASY DEPLOYMENT RED HAT CLOUDFORMS Feature Highlights
- 32. OPERATIONAL VISIBILITY ● End-to-End Visibility & Relationships ● Smart-State Analysis ● Resource & Health Monitoring ● Capacity Management & Planning ● Financial Management (Cost Control)
- 34. SELF-SERVICE PORTAL ● Service Centric Management ● RBAC Service Catalog ● Ownership, Quota & Approval ● Detailed User Feedback ● Usage Monitoring & Control
- 36. LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT ● Infrastructure as Code (multi-tier, storage, network, security, etc) ● Service Provisioning & Retirement ● On-going Configuration Monitoring ● Usage & Performance Metrics
- 37. AUTOMATION & POLICY ENFORCEMENT
- 38. GOVERNANCE & CONTROL ● Event Based State-Management ● Compliance Checks (e.g. Security) ● Automated Remediation ● Pro-Active Management ● Thresholds & Alerts Management
- 40. ANSIBLE AUTOMATION Default Automation Language for Red Hat CloudForms ● Simple - Role based, pre-configured in CloudForms ● Instant Value - From provisioning, configuration, to integration use cases ● Easy to Use - The simplest and fastest growing Automation Language ● Re-Use - Leverage Ansible community, existing experience & playbooks ● Extensible - 900+ integrations into Enterprise Management
- 41. CLOUD VIRT & CONTAINER WINDOWS NETWORK CHAT MONITORING ANSIBLE AUTOMATES TECHNOLOGIES THAT YOU USE AWS Azure CenturyLink Digital Ocean Docker Google OpenStack Rackspace +more Docker VMware RHEV OpenStack OpenShift Atomic CloudStack +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 HipChat IRC Jabber Email Rocketchat Sendgrid Slack Twilio +more Airbrake BigPanda Datadog LogicMonitor Monit Nagios New Relic PagerDuty Sensu StackDriver Zabbix +more over 900 integrations
- 42. SUCCESS STORIES
- 43. COX AUTOMOTIVE CHALLENGES RESULTS ● Disparate IT infrastructure platforms ● Long provisioning and service delivery times ● Reduced delivery times from 2-8 weeks to 15 minutes, saving 4,500 developer hours “We analyzed the numbers and realized with Red Hat we saved almost 10 years of time and almost $5 million in soft savings.” Jason Cornell Manager of Cloud and Infrastructure Automation
- 44. MACQUARIE BENEFITS ● Improved customer experience for its personal banking offering, with better availability and responsiveness ● Increased efficiency, improving developer productivity by more than 50% and reducing time to market for new features and updates from hours to minutes ● Gained access to open source innovation with enterprise-grade security and support from Red Hat ● Improved related technology knowledge and skills with customized offerings from Red Hat Training Luis Uguina Chief Digital Officer “Red Hat technology has helped us to work in a more efficient way, with speed and agility as the biggest outcomes. By continually using the platform, we expect huge benefits over the coming months and years. We’re just at the beginning of the journey.”
- 48. BUILD A TRUSTED & SECURE RED HAT ENVIRONMENT Manage the Red Hat Lifecycle Provision & Configure at Scale Standardize Your Environment RED HAT MANAGEMENT AND AUTOMATION FOR IT OPERATIONS DELIVER SERVICES ACROSS YOUR HYBRID CLOUD Hybrid Cloud Management Self-Service Provisioning Policy-driven Compliance CENTRALIZE AUTOMATION GOVERNANCE Centralized Control Team & User Delegation Audit Trail PREVENT CRITICAL ISSUES BEFORE THEY OCCUR Continuous Insights Verified Knowledge Proactive Resolution AUTOMATE YOUR I.T. PROCESSES & DEPLOYMENTS