AnsibleFest 2017 Recap

(@dFed) Recap and discuss announcements and content from AnsibleFest 2017, just wrapping up in San Francisco.

1. DFed Director, Ansible Product Enablement Red Hat WELCOME
2. One person who believed in Ansible
3. PLATINUM GOLD THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS
4. ASK AN EXPERT HAPPY HOUR NETWORKING THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS SILVER
5. PICK YOUR TRACK USE CASES TECH DEEP DIVES SOLUTIONS NETWORKING PLATFORM
6. ASK AN ANSIBLE EXPERT 11:00-5:00 All questions welcome
7. RECEPTION 5:30 - 7:00
8. CODE OF CONDUCT ansible.com/code-of-conduct
10. Justin Nemmers General Manager, Ansible Red Hat STATE OF AUTOMATION
11. 215+ GLOBAL ANSIBLE MEETUPS 69,000+ MEMBERS
12. 2,900+ UNIQUE ANSIBLE CONTRIBUTORS
13. RED HAT MANAGEMENT MANAGE IT WITH THE POWER OF AUTOMATION SATELLITE CLOUDFORMS ANSIBLE TOWER INSIGHTS BUILD A TRUSTED & SECURE RED HAT ENVIRONMENT AUTOMATE YOUR IT PROCESSES & DEPLOYMENTS DELIVER SERVICES ACROSS YOUR HYBRID CLOUD PREVENT CRITICAL ISSUES BEFORE THEY OCCUR Manage the Red Hat Lifecycle Provision & Configure at Scale Standardize Your Environment Hybrid Cloud Management Self-Service Provisioning Policy-driven Compliance Continuous Insights Verified Knowledge Proactive Resolution Schedule & centralize jobs Visibility & compliance Role-based access & self-service
16. STRATEGICALLY DIFFERENTIABLE THROUGH MANAGEMENT
18. THE AUTOMATED ENTERPRISE Manage IT with Automation
19. NAVIGATION SYSTEMS Tell us where to turn
20. REAR CAMERAS Guide us to places we can’t easily see
21. BACKUP SENSORS Alert us when to stop
22. BUT THIS IS WHAT WE REALLY WANT Systems that don’t just talk to us, but talk to each other Photo via Volvo
23. EVEN MORE INTERESTING Systems of self-driving cars Photo via Google
24. While having drones deliver packages is interesting... Photo via Amazon
25. EVEN MORE INTERESTING Automated distribution centers that can make systemic changes Photo via Amazon
26. No matter where you are on your path to digital transformation, you can make an impact with automation.
27. How are you thinking about management? What is your automation strategy?
28. Everyone is talking about automation
29. SERVERS CLOUD NETWORK APPS CONTAINERS AUTOMATION IN ENTERPRISE IT TODAY
30. AUTOMATED SILOS ARE SILOS STILL AUTOMATION IN ENTERPRISE IT TODAY
31. Milind Govekar, Research VP Gartner “Most current use of automation in IT involves scripting. Scripts are more fragile than agile. What you end up with is disconnected islands of automation with spaghetti code throughout the organization when what you need is a systematic, enterprise-wide lasagne.” Reference Smarter with Gartner: Automation: The Next Frontier for IT May 18, 2016 Contributor Susan Moore
32. AUTOMATES ORGANIZATIONS Isolated scripts AUTOMATES FUNCTIONS A culture of automation
33. “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?” Susan Moore, Director PR Asia Pacific Gartner Reference Smarter with Gartner: Automation: The Next Frontier for IT May 18, 2016 Contributor Susan Moore
34. WHY ENTERPRISE-WIDE IT AUTOMATION IS ELUSIVE TODAY PEOPLE PROBLEMS POINT TOOLS PACE OF INNOVATION 1 2 3 Skills gaps & org charts get in the way Proliferation of point solutions and vendor-specific tools Automation requires integration across domains
35. For automation to scale, it must be simple.
36. An enterprise-wide automation strategy must benefit individuals first. TEAM ENTERPRISE INDIVIDUAL
37. Designed around the way people work and the way people work together. AUTOMATION FOR EVERYONE
38. THE AUTOMATED ENTERPRISE Start small. Think big. Drive change.
39. Tim Cramer Senior Director, Ansible Engineering Red Hat PRODUCT UPDATE
40. Focus on individual contributor to make your work easier
41. INDIVIDUAL GET MORE PRODUCTIVE & COLLABORATIVE TEAM ENTERPRISE
42. 2.4 MODERNIZE ORGANIZE EXTEND
43. LINE OF BUSINESS DEVELOPERS IT OPERATIONS CEO IT OPERATIONS BEARS THE BURDEN
44. AUTOMATE OR ....
45. DEV QA/SECURITY IT OPERATIONS BUSINESS ANSIBLE IS THE UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE
46. Automation is hitting a tipping point in organizations
47. GET CONNECTED TEAM ENTERPRISE INDIVIDUAL
48. SCALE MANAGE CONNECT
49. Teams of teams now automating
50. BE TRANSFORMED TEAM ENTERPRISE INDIVIDUAL
52. RED HAT ANSIBLE TOWER RED HAT ANSIBLE ENGINE Scale + operationalize your automation Support for your Ansible automation CONTROL KNOWLEDGE DELEGATION SIMPLE POWERFUL AGENTLESS FUELED BY AN INNOVATIVE OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITY
53. Peter Sprygada Ansible Network Architect Red Hat NETWORK UPDATE
54. ANSIBLE NETWORK AUTOMATION ansible.com/networking 460+ Networking modules 33 Networking platforms
55. 2.4 AGGREGATE RESOURCES PLATFORM AGNOSTIC DECLARATIVE INTENT
56. 7 Platforms 28 Modules 17 Platforms 141 Modules 29 Platforms 267 Modules 33 Platforms 463 Modules Persistent Connections NETCONF Support Declarative Intent Aggregate Resources Platform Agnostic 2.1 May 2016 2.2 Oct 2016 2.3 Apr 2017 2.4 Sep 2017 NETWORK AUTOMATION PROGRESS
57. TRANSFORMING THE ENTERPRISE PHYSICAL NETWORK STATE VALIDATION HYBRID CLOUD NETWORK INTERCONNECT DATA CENTER FABRIC AUTOMATION
58. + NETWORK AUTOMATION ADD-ON
59. AUTOMATION = ACCELERATION
60. “I just used Ansible for an urgent priority mission in support of Harvey relief to setup some layer 2 VPNs, validate the state, and do a performance check. Total time 3 minutes ... versus like 30 manually” Cisco Advanced Services leveraged Ansible to deploy and validate services in support of the US Army's Harvey relief Mission.
61. Greg Dekoenigsberg Director of Ansible Community Red Hat COMMUNITY UPDATE
62. WE ARE ALL THE COMMUNITY Thank you for your support
63. github.com/ansible/awx
64. ansible.com/awx-contributors
65. Your contributions drive innovation
66. Jim Whitehurst President and Chief Executive Officer Red Hat Robyn Bergeron Principal Community Architect, Ansible Red Hat KEY TOPICS AND TRENDS