Application Management with Ansible at General Mills

See how Richard from General Mills has been making extensive use of Ansible and Ansible Tower for application management across Windows and Linux platforms alike.

Review why they implemented some custom interfaces for launching jobs and how's its working across the organization.

• Setting up your Windows environment for Ansible
• Creating Front End Forms(survey) that are reusable(copying template) for Windows Servers or desktops.
• Delegating service management
• Patching
• Allowing End users to use these Front End Forms that are created.

Presented by... Richard Zuraff, who has been working as an Infrastructure Engineer at General Mills for over 12 years. His focuses are on automation with Azure Service Management Automation and Ansible, Windows and Linux infrastructural automation.

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1. Ansible at General Mills Richard Zuraff
2. BIO Infrastructure Engineer Automation Background
3. Enterprise Application Team u Current Team on at General Mills u Support Windows 2008 R2, 2012 R2 and 2016 and Linux Servers u Support over 100 applications u F5 u WebLogic u Hyperion u Red Prairie u IIS u Small team of 9 people. u Automation from SMA (Azure Service Manager Automation) and Ansible
4. Ansible on Windows u Issues with our 2008 R2 servers u PowerShell older than 3.0 u Enabling Powershell Remoting u script that you can use to set it up. u http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/intro_windows.html#installing-on-the-control- machine u Under section Windows System Prep u Actual script that you can use u https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/examples/scripts/ConfigureRemotingForA nsible.ps1
5. Demo
6. Tower Survey
7. Tower Survey
8. Tower Survey
9. Questions u Contact info u Richard.Zuraff@genmills.com