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Bill HirschPrincipal Solutions Architect
EMBRACING AUTOMATIONAutomation doesn’t replace your position, it strengthens it
Who Am I?
Principal Solutions Architect - RHCA, RHCE
Work with state & local gov’t, higher education, and healthcare customers to build automation strategies
Former Director of Infrastructure at a large healthcare company
Fun Fact: I “accidentally” became and I.T. guy while working in the film industry
https://www.linkedin.com/in/billhirsch/
https://github.com/bhirsch70
Stuff Smart People Say about Automation
“Automation is going to cause unemployment, and we need to prepare for it.”
- Mark Cuban “Sooner or later, the U.S. will face mounting job losses due to advances in automation, artificial intelligence, and robotics.”
- Oren Etzioni
“Automation is great for profits, but it's a real potential trouble area for society.”
- Chieh Huang"Jobs for every American" is doomed to failure because of modern automation and production.”
- Jerry Brown
Other Stuff Smart People Said
"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."
-- Ken Olsen
“There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance."
-- Steve Ballmer
“There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will."
-- Albert Einstein
"If you cross your eyes, they’re going to stay like that”
-- My Mother
WHY EMBRACE?
Top Management and Performance ChallengesOversight.Gov April 2018 Report
Why Embrace Automation?
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Source: https://www.oversight.gov/sites/default/files/oig-reports/CIGIE_Top_Challenges_Report_April_2018.pdf
Information Technology Security and ManagementSafeguarding sensitive assets against cyber-attacks
Human Capital ManagementRecruiting, training, and retaining qualified staff
Financial Management Significant amount of dollars lost through improper payment
Facilities MaintenanceIncreased likelihood of mission failure and the higher overall cost of deferred maintenance
We Need Automation
I am not a Robot
Cost of Downtime
Manual tasks are dangerous
S&P 500 Companies lost $150 Million in 15 Minutes
Unplanned downtime at a major public cloud vendor caused by human error
Source: The $150 Million Typo
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MORE
LESS
UNSTOPPABLE PASSAGE OF TIME
Staff growth is flat… at Best
Resources are thinning
Automation is here to stay
Ansible Job Openings
Oh Yeah? Make Me!
“There is too much variation to automate this”
“We don’t have time to learn yet another technology”
“... the process is too complex to automate… too many moving parts”
“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
Charles Darwin
Automation is here to stay
Welcome to
Ansible
Automates
A common automation language brings silos together
Automate the deployment and management of your entire IT footprint.
Do this...
Configuration Management
Application Deployment Provisioning Continuous
DeliverySecurity and Compliance
On these...
Load Balancers Applications Containers Clouds
Infrastructure Storage And more...Network Devices
What can I do using Ansible?
Ansible Expertise Alone is NOT enough
We NEED Ansible + Domain Expertise
ENABLEMENT & ADOPTION
Enablement and Adoption
If you build it they will...Probably still not come
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Implementation is simply step 1
3 Common Pitfalls1. Solution in search of a problem
2. You HAVE to use it, we already paid
3. Your. Baby. Ugly
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Enablement and Adoption
Hands-on training
Free
Public or at customer site
Individual environment per/participant
Write your first playbook
Create an Ansible Role
Install Ansible Tower
Execute your own automations
WHAT IS IT? WHAT YOU’LL LEARN
Enablement and Adoption
Avoid long-term roadmapsPlan just enough to get started with a new automation flow
CollaborateAlign and innovate automation approach through transparency and inclusion
Break big thingsinto small chunksWork incrementally and standardize automation components
Foster learningCreate a culture of pairing,mentoring, and community through an automation practice
Accelerate feedback Automate testing and CI/CD for playbooks
Experiment and refine strategyTurn small failures intolearning opportunities
Open source culture powers enterprise automation
JUST START.
Enablement and Adoption
WHAT WE BELIEVE
Lunch & Learns
Only real use cases
Find a champion
Demo, Demo, Demo
ROAD SHOW
Enablement and Adoption
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