Automating the Enterprise with CloudForms & Ansible

Jerome MarcTechnical Marketing Engineer

Management BU, Red Hat

June 2017

TODAY’S AGENDA

● Organization requirements & challenges for IT service delivery

● IT Automation as a foundation & Red Hat Management

● Red Hat CloudForms for Self-Service, Visibility & Governance

● Customer Successes

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION DRIVING DRAMATIC CHANGES IN IT

LINE OF BUSINESSChallenged to deliver services faster, at scale, and more efficiently

DEVELOPERSNeed to develop applications faster with greater productivity

IT OPERATIONSMust provide infrastructure agility, on-demand that scales as needed

CEOCompetitive pressure driving digital transformation

“The business environment today is pushing companies to respond to ever increasing competition.

In order to remain competitive, they have to deliver their services faster, at greater scale, and do so efficiently in order to remain profitable.

These demands drive application developers to create new applications and deliver them faster.

This further places stress on the IT Operations team who has to provide a scalable, on-demand infrastructure that can service the Developers.”

LINE OF BUSINESS

DEVELOPERS

IT OPERATIONS

CEO

IT OPERATIONS BEARS THE BURDEN

ORGANIZATION NEEDS

What does this mean???

IT OPERATIONS

$$$$$

ORGANIZATION NEEDS

IT OPERATIONS

$$$$$ ???

BUSINESS HAS CHANGED —IN RESPONSE, IT OPERATIONS NEEDS TO CHANGE

LINE OF BUSINESSChallenged to deliver services faster,at scale, and more efficiently

DEVELOPERSNeed to develop applications faster with greater productivity

IT OPERATIONSMust provide infrastructure on-demand that scales as needed

74% expect to buy new management solutions to support open hybrid clouds and next-generation application architectures.

Do you believe you will need to purchase new management software solutions between now

and 2017?N=201

74% Yes 11% No

15% Unsure

CONTROL & INSIGHTS INTO IT

ACCOUNTABILITY

AUTOMATED SERVICE DELIVERY

REPORTING

NEW TECHNOLOGIES

ROADBLOCKS

Where shall I start?

IT OPERATIONS

So much to do..INSIGHTS CONTROL

AUTOMATION REPORTS

WARNING

CHALLENGESAHEAD

COMPLEXITY & VELOCITY

SHADOW IT / LACK OF VISIBILITY

PACE OF BUSINESS

NEW TOOLS FOR CLOUD

AUTOMATION IS KEY

IT OPERATIONS

Everyone is talking about automation.

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?

Automation: The Next Frontier for ITMay 18, 2016 - Susan Moore

SERVERS CLOUD NETWORK

APPS

CONTAINERS

AUTOMATION IN ENTERPRISE IT TODAY

AUTOMATED SILOS ARE

SILOS

STILL

AUTOMATION IN ENTERPRISE IT TODAY

Ansible solves these problems where no other technology has been able to do so.

SIMPLE AGENTLESS EXTENSIBLE

DEV QA/SECURITY IT OPERATIONSBUSINESS

ANSIBLE IS THE UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE

AUTOMATION ACROSSRED HAT MANAGEMENT

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BUILD A TRUSTED & SECURE RED HAT ENVIRONMENT

Manage the Red Hat Lifecycle

Provision & Configure at Scale

Standardize Your Environment

RED HAT MANAGEMENT AND AUTOMATIONFOR IT OPERATIONS

DELIVER SERVICES ACROSS YOUR HYBRID CLOUD

Hybrid Cloud Management

Self-Service Provisioning

Policy-driven Compliance

CENTRALIZE AUTOMATIONGOVERNANCE

Centralized Control

Team & User Delegation

Audit Trail

PREVENT CRITICAL ISSUES BEFORE THEY OCCUR

Continuous Insights

Verified Knowledge

Proactive Resolution

AUTOMATE YOUR I.T. PROCESSES & DEPLOYMENTS

RED HAT CLOUDFORMS

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STORAGE NETWORKSCONTAINERSPUBLIC CLOUD

COMPLIANCE AND GOVERNANCE

Responsibly enabling users and developers,

without being in the way.

SELF-SERVICE ANDSERVICE MANAGEMENT

Automate and delegate service delivery processes,

saving time and money.

Improve resource utilization and

operational efficiency.

VISIBILITY,EFFICIENCY ANDOPTIMIZATION

RED HAT CLOUDFORMSCloud Management Platform

PRIVATE CLOUD MIDDLEWAREVIRTUAL

MULTI-CLOUD, MULTI-SERVICE ORCHESTRATION & AUTOMATION

COMPLIANCE AND GOVERNANCE

Responsibly enabling users and developers,

without being in the way.

SELF-SERVICE ANDSERVICE MANAGEMENT

Automate and delegate service delivery processes,

saving time and money.

Improve resource utilization and

operational efficiency.

VISIBILITY,EFFICIENCY ANDOPTIMIZATION

RED HAT CLOUDFORMSCloud Management Platform

MULTI-CLOUD, MULTI-SERVICE ORCHESTRATION & AUTOMATION

DEV QA/SECURITY IT OPERATIONSBUSINESS

AGENTLESS

ANSIBLE AUTOMATION MULTI-TENANCYAND RBAC

FEDERATED GLOBAL DEPLOYMENTS

VIRTUAL APPLIANCE CONTINUOUS DISCOVERY

EASY INSTALL, EASY MAINTENANCE

SIMPLE, POWERFUL, AGENTLESSSEGMENT USER ACCESS,

FINE GRAINED ACCESS CONTROLHIGHLY SCALABLE, HIGHLY AVAILABLE

MULTI-REGION DEPLOYMENTS

BROWN-FIELD MANAGEMENT,INTEROPERATES WITH OTHER MGMTEASY DEPLOYMENT

RED HAT CLOUDFORMSFeature Highlights

OPERATIONAL VISIBILITY

OPERATIONAL VISIBILITY

● End-to-End Visibility & Relationships

● Smart-State Analysis

● Resource & Health Monitoring

● Capacity Management & Planning

● Financial Management (Cost Control)

EMPOWERING END USERS

SELF-SERVICE PORTAL

● Service Centric Management

● RBAC Service Catalog

● Ownership, Quota & Approval

● Detailed User Feedback

● Usage Monitoring & Control

END-TO-END LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT

LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT

● Infrastructure as Code (multi-tier,

storage, network, security, etc)

● Service Provisioning & Retirement

● On-going Configuration Monitoring

● Usage & Performance Metrics

AUTOMATION & POLICY ENFORCEMENT

GOVERNANCE & CONTROL

● Event Based State-Management

● Compliance Checks (e.g. Security)

● Automated Remediation

● Pro-Active Management

● Thresholds & Alerts Management

ANSIBLE AUTOMATION

ANSIBLE AUTOMATIONDefault Automation Language for Red Hat CloudForms

● Simple - Role based, pre-configured in CloudForms

● Instant Value - From provisioning, configuration, to integration use cases

● Easy to Use - The simplest and fastest growing Automation Language

● Re-Use - Leverage Ansible community, existing experience & playbooks

● Extensible - 900+ integrations into Enterprise Management

CLOUD VIRT & CONTAINER WINDOWS NETWORK CHAT MONITORING

ANSIBLE AUTOMATES TECHNOLOGIES THAT YOU USE

AWSAzureCenturyLinkDigital OceanDockerGoogleOpenStackRackspace+more

DockerVMwareRHEVOpenStackOpenShiftAtomicCloudStack+more

ACLsFilesPackagesIISRegeditsSharesServicesConfigsUsersDomains+more

AristaA10CumulusBigswitchCiscoCumulusDellF5JuniperPalo AltoOpenSwitch+more

HipChatIRCJabberEmailRocketchatSendgridSlackTwilio+more

AirbrakeBigPandaDatadogLogicMonitorMonitNagiosNew RelicPagerDutySensuStackDriverZabbix+more

over 900 integrations

SUCCESS STORIES

COX AUTOMOTIVE

CHALLENGES

RESULTS

● Disparate IT infrastructure platforms● Long provisioning and service delivery times

● Reduced delivery times from 2-8 weeks to 15 minutes, saving 4,500 developer hours

“We analyzed the numbers and realized with Red Hat we saved almost 10 years of time and almost $5 million in soft savings.”

Jason Cornell Manager of Cloud and Infrastructure Automation

MACQUARIE

BENEFITS

● Improved customer experience for its personal banking offering, with better availability and responsiveness

● Increased efficiency, improving developer productivity by more than 50% and reducing time to market for new features and updates from hours to minutes

● Gained access to open source innovation with enterprise-grade security and support from Red Hat

● Improved related technology knowledge and skills with customized offerings from Red Hat Training

Luis UguinaChief Digital Officer

“Red Hat technology has helped us to work in a more efficient way, with speed and agility as the biggest outcomes. By continually using the platform, we expect huge benefits over the coming months and years. We’re just at the beginning of the journey.”

DEVELOPERS

BUSINESS

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BUILD A TRUSTED & SECURE RED HAT ENVIRONMENT

Manage the Red Hat Lifecycle

Provision & Configure at Scale

Standardize Your Environment

RED HAT MANAGEMENT AND AUTOMATIONFOR IT OPERATIONS

DELIVER SERVICES ACROSS YOUR HYBRID CLOUD

Hybrid Cloud Management

Self-Service Provisioning

Policy-driven Compliance

CENTRALIZE AUTOMATIONGOVERNANCE

Centralized Control

Team & User Delegation

Audit Trail

PREVENT CRITICAL ISSUES BEFORE THEY OCCUR

Continuous Insights

Verified Knowledge

Proactive Resolution

AUTOMATE YOUR I.T. PROCESSES & DEPLOYMENTS