In the world right now we have soo many applications, which are used to perform multiple tasks or may be to do a particular task. Using these applications are not so difficult these days and we find some applications which are commonly used in all the computer systems, the main job is installing them, we may think its a one time process, but imagine a system engineer performing the same tasks for n-number of systems in his organization. Dont we think its a hectic process and also its time consuming. What if I tell you this can be done in a single Go!
Yes, this task can be automated and the tool which is used is called Ansible.
Ansible a tool/software used for configuration management of operating system. We the help of Ansible we can launch hundreds of machine at one time.
Team impact:-
- Save time and be more productive
- Eliminate repetitive tasks
- Fewer mistakes & errors
- Improve collaboration and job satisfaction
Enterprise Impact:-
- Overcome complexity
- More resources for innovation
- Increase accountability and compliance
Lets talk about some use cases of Ansible in the current Industry.
Ansible and Juniper
Juniper Networks is an industry leader in network innovation. Juniper creates innovative technologies that help customers connect their ideas, compete and thrive in an ever-changing world.
Integrated Solution
The combination of Ansible and Juniper’s automation and orchestration tools bring together the knowledge and expertise of experienced IT solutions developers, operators, and administrators across organizations.
The joint solution addresses the most common applications of automation and orchestration in the management and provisioning of IT resources, including:
- Configuration automation
- Test-driven networking
- Continuous compliance
The joint solution includes Ansible modules developed specifically for Juniper Networks Junos OS.
Ansible Tower allows us to easily streamline the delivery of applications and services to both OpenStack and Amazon Clouds in a cost effective, simple, and secure manner
— Juniper Networks
Ansible and Cisco
As customers embrace the DevOps model to accelerate application deployment and achieve higher efficiency in operating their data centers, the infrastructure needs to change and respond faster than ever to business needs. These changes can help you achieve an agile operational model by improving on automation, innovation, and consistency.
The Cisco Nexus platform allows you to easily:
- Integrate your applications into your customer’s existing DevOps tools chain
- Improve flexibility in installing and deploying whatever protocol package or custom applications you need on the switch
- Get open and full access to switch resources and data
Integrated Solution
The feature richness in Cisco Nexus NX-OS combined with the scaling and performance capabilities enable customers to build efficient data centers.
The Ansible integration with Cisco Nexus platforms enables customers to take advantage of programming and automating the infrastructure at scale with speed.
Ansible accelerates Day 0, 1 and 2 operations in the following ways:
- Day 0 — Automates device bring up
- Day 1 — Push network configurations to maintain consistency across the infrastructure
- Day 2 — Optimizes network compliance and operation
Solution Benefits
The combined Ansible and Cisco solution provides:
- Speed IT Transformation
- Leverage Open Ecosystem
- Efficient Operational Model
- Faster Adoption
- Improve Speed and Agility
Ansible and Microsoft Azure
Automate Microsoft Azure simply
Chances are teams in your organization are already successfully deploying workloads in public cloud. As more new applications are built natively for the cloud, IT leaders are looking for ways to deliver a consistent customer experience and management strategy across cloud and on-premise applications. The good news — if your IT teams are already using Ansible to describe on-premise infrastructure and applications, then you can easily use these descriptions to automate the same workloads in Microsoft Azure.
Azure supports customers’ push to hybrid cloud in the areas of infrastructure, user identity and management. Using Ansible to automate these Azure services gives organizations the flexibility to run workloads where they best make sense.
Automate once, Deploy anywhere
Ansible’s library of Azure modules makes it easy to provision instances, networks, and complete Azure infrastructure whenever you need, and in any region you require. For example, the same simple Playbook language you use for application deployment and on-prem automation also provisions your Azure infrastructure, applying the correct configuration.
Once you use Ansible to define your application locally, you can repeatedly deploy and redeploy the application. Re-deploying it to a different infrastructure is as straightforward as defining your Azure environment and then applying your application’s Playbook. No more surprises. Because of its power and flexibility, Ansible ensures your Azure deployments work seamlessly in a hybrid cloud configuration as easily as you build a single system.
Windows, Linux, Services, Networks AND MORE
Azure hosts a lot more than just Windows, and thankfully Ansible automates it all. Ansible has been designed for cloud deployments from the beginning, and Ansible easily allows you to provision a variety of Azure cloud services. Whether you’re building a simple 3-tier application, or a complicated set of virtual private clouds, services, and applications, your Azure environments can be described in Ansible Playbooks, and then scaled out across regions.
Ansible has modules for many different Azure capabilities, including:
- Virtual Machines
- Virtual Networks
- Storage and Storage Accounts
- Resource Groups
- Security Groups
- Resource Manager Templated Deployments
Ansible also has hundreds and hundreds of additional modules that help you manage every aspect of your Linux, Windows, UNIX, network infrastructure, and applications — regardless of where they’re deployed.
Automating in Azure at Scale
As your Azure footprint and supporting teams grow, you will realize the need for controls to restrict users’ ability to modify certain environments. The answer is simple: Red Hat® Ansible® Tower gives you an enterprise framework for controlling, securing and managing Ansible automation with a UI and RESTful API.
Ansible Tower helps teams who use Ansible with an extensive set of role-based access controls that ensures users will only have access to the Azure resources (networks, systems, security groups, etc.) that are required for their job. Plus, Ansible Tower encrypts credentials such as Azure and SSH keys so that you can delegate simple automation jobs to junior employees without giving out the (literal) keys to the kingdom.
Thank You.
