Why Automation And How Ansible Tower Can Help

Why Automation and how Ansible Tower can helpPeter Mumenthaler - Solution Architect

Some Questions you need to ask?2

Some Questions you need to ask yourself?3

AUTOMATEREPEAT IT4

With Automation everything is. 5DocumentedAlways up2dateYou know the state of all your IT env Reporting Fast and close to production IT staff spends their time onvaluable things that engage theirabilitiesState is always enforcedAuditableTraceable changesComplianceReproducibleStandard(s) proceduresEasy to integrate intochangemangement processAbstraction of infrastructureLess errors because standardizedenvironment and unit tests

AUTOMATION FOR TEAMSAnsible Tower technical introduction and overview6

WHAT IS ANSIBLE TOWER?Ansible Tower is an enterprise framework forcontrolling, securing and managing your Ansibleautomation – with a UI and RESTful API. Role-based access control Deploy entire applications withpush-button deployment access All automations are centrally logged7

RED HAT ANSIBLE TOWERScale operationalize your automationCONTROLKNOWLEDGEDELEGATIONRED HAT ANSIBLE ENGINESupport for your Ansible automationSIMPLEPOWERFULAGENTLESSFUELED BY AN INNOVATIVE OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITY8

.ADMINSANSIBLE CLI & CI SYSTEMSANSIBLE PLAYBOOKSANSIBLETOWERROLE-BASEDACCESS CONTROLSCHEDULED &CENTRALIZED JOBSKNOWLEDGE& VISIBILITYSIMPLE USER INTERFACETOWER APIUSERSANSIBLEOPEN SOURCE MODULE LIBRARYPYTHON CODEBASEPLUGINSTRANSPORTSSH, WINRM, NTAINERSCLOUDSERVICESLINUX,WINDOWS,UNIX ARISTA,CISCO,JUNIPER DOCKER,LXC AWS,GOOGLE CLOUD,AZURE DATABASES,LOGGING,SOURCE CONTROLMANAGEMENT LOYMENTCONTINUOUSDELIVERYSECURITY &COMPLIANCEORCHESTRATION

ANSIBLE TOWER INTEGRATIONSClient accessing Ansible TowerCMDBPostgre5QLMANAGED HOSTS10DOMAIN CONTROLLER

FEATURE OVERVIEW11

ANSIBLE TOWERJOB STATUS UPDATEHeads-up NOC-style automation dashboarddisplays everything goingon in your Ansible environment.12

ANSIBLE TOWERNEW IN ANSIBLE TOWER 3.3Mapping Ansible Tower organizations andteams from SAML attributesROLE-BASED ACCESS CONTROLCreates the necessary separation and isolationof users and resources. Users can safely useAnsible Tower to work only on the systems inthe environments to which they have access.Easier SAML configuration of two-factorauthenticationConfigure multiple LDAP servers in a singleAnsible Tower instanceAnsible Tower 3.3 is now an OAuth2 providerUsers and administrators can createapplication tokens13

ANSIBLE TOWERACTIVITY STREAMSecurely stores every Job that runs, andenables you to view them later, or exportdetails through Tower’s API.14

ANSIBLE TOWERMULTI-PLAYBOOK WORKFLOWSTower’s multi-Playbook workflows chains anynumber of Playbooks together to create a singleworkflow. Different Jobs can be run depending onsuccess or failure of the prior Playbook.15

ANSIBLE TOWERSCALE-OUT CLUSTERINGConnect multiple Tower nodes into a Tower clusterto add redundancy and capacity to your automationplatform.Add reserved capacity, capacity by organization,deploy remote execution nodes for additional localcapacity.NEW! Push-button Ansible Tower deployment anddynamic scaling at runtime for Red Hat OpenShiftContainer Platform users16

ANSIBLE TOWERMANAGE AND TRACK YOUR INVENTORYTower’s inventory syncing and provisioningcallbacks allow nodes to request configuration ondemand, enabling autoscaling.NEW! Smart Inventories allow you to organize andautomate hosts across all your providers based ona powerful host fact query engine.NEW! See alerts from Red Hat Insights directlyfrom Tower, and use Insights-provided PlaybookRemediation to fix issues in your infrastructure.17

ANSIBLE TOWERSCHEDULE JOBSEnables you to schedule any Job now,later, or forever.18

ANSIBLE TOWERINTEGRATED NOTIFICATIONSStay informed of your automation statusvia integrated notifications. Connect Slack,Hipchat, SMS, email and more.19

ANSIBLE TOWERSELF-SERVICE ITTower lets you launch Playbooks with just asingle click. It can prompt you for variables,let you choose from available secure credentialsand monitor the resulting deployments.20

ANSIBLE TOWERREMOTE COMMAND EXECUTIONRun simple tasks on any host with Tower's remotecommand execution. Add users or groups, resetpasswords, restart a malfunctioning service or patcha critical security issue, quickly.21

ANSIBLE TOWEREXTERNAL LOGGINGConnect Tower to your external logging andanalytics provider to perform analysis of automationand event correlation across your entireenvironment.22

Ansible Offerings: Understanding theDifferencesAWX vs. Ansible Tower

GETTING STARTEDHave you used Ansible already?Try Tower for free: ansible.com/tower-trialWould you like to learn Ansible?It’s easy to get started: ansible.com/get-startedWant to learn more?Videos, webinars, case studies, whitepapers: ansible.com/resources29

ANSIBLE TOWER ROLE-BASED ACCESS CONTROL Creates the necessary separation and isolation of users and resources. Users can safely use Ansible Tower to work only on the systems in the environments to which they have access. NEW IN ANSIBLE TOWER 3.3 Mapping Ansible Tower organizations and teams from SAML attributes Easier SAML configuration of two .