DevConf.US 2020 is the 3rd annual, free, Red Hat sponsored technology conference for community project and professional contributors to Free and Open Source technologies coming to a web browser near you!
Everyone has heard of Red Hat Ansible, but how about Ansible Tower(or AWX- its open source counterpart)? If you don’t know what it is, then this talk is for you. Tower will help you add sophistication to your Ansible usage and have visibility & control over how your team uses Ansible. While doing so, one of the things that you need to worry about is how reliable your Ansible Tower setup is? How would you maintain all the objects like Projects, Users, Settings, Credentials, Job Templates and Workflow Templates created in the ansible tower are reproducible, you can redeploy it in case you lose it. In this talk, you will see how we achieved this reproducibility in our environment.
You will walk away with knowledge of: What is Ansible Tower and why do I need it? Ansible Modules to interact with tower Ansible tower Meta backup vs full backup and restore CI Workflow for Ansible Playbook/Ansible Tower Git Repos to enable contribution from others Use cases that can be automated via Ansible
Kedar is a Senior Software Quality and DevOps Engineer at Red Hat. Kedar has been at Red Hat for 4+ years and he has gone from Software Engineer Intern to Senior Software Engineer. His focus has been primarily on Infrastructure - Baremetal, Virtualized and Containers. He is a Red... Read More →