Monthly Meeting - Legacy Automation with Ansible
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First talk: Ansible for Legacy Systems
When deploying configuration automation tools like Ansible, primary attention is often given to greenfield deployments and new technologies. Legacy environments are typically persistent and business-critical. Improvements in their management can have significant benefits for preventing outages, simplifying changes, and the ops team's quality of life. In this talk, Kevin White will discuss strategies and techniques for managing complicated legacy environments with Ansible.
Second talk: Converting Bash Scripts to Ansible
As Ansible becomes more ingrained as the automation solution from enterprises to personal applications, modernizing legacy automation scripts to take advantage of its features becomes more imperative. In this talk, Dave Glaser will explore the benefits of converting Bash scripts to Ansible playbooks and a method for converting them.
About the speakers:
Kevin White is a Technical Account Manager, Ansible Automation Platform in the Financial Services group at Red Hat. He brings years of commercial operations experience to his role at Red Hat helping customers integrate Ansible into their environments.
Dave Glaser is a Senior Technical Account Manager in the Financial Services group at Red Hat, working with customers to enable and expand their use of Ansible services. Dave has used Ansible for six years and is currently a certified Ansible specialist.
Dave is a long time systems administrator, DevOps specialist, and reformed script writer whose lifelong ambition is to automate all of his mundane work tasks so he can work on more interesting things. He has a wide work experience from the academic to commercial space and has worked for Red Hat for the past four years.
