Ansible Dark Tower - building stateless self configuring Ansible Clusters
Details
We are lucky enough to get Tony Kay to talk about his work on developing a solution that is used by Red Hat's Global Partner & Technical Enablement team to manage the workloads that Red Hat associate and partner used for training and demos.
Tony is a Senior Principal Solutions Architect based in Colorado, USA and is part of the GPTE team that travels around the globe to deliver Red Hat training
Background:
In 2019 facing an ever increasing load on their control node deploying over 1,000 instances a day across multiple clouds and tracking their state Red Hat's GPTE team embarked on Project Babylon. Separating Configuration from Code and building stateless self configuring Ansible "Dark Tower" Clusters controlled by stateful OpenShift Operators. This session will give the overall architecture before diving into how the Tower Clusters are deployed and configured.
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Ansible Dark Tower - building stateless self configuring Ansible Clusters