Welcome to the team at our fictional company, Parasol Video Streaming! You're new, fresh, and eager to dive into the world of cutting-edge media technology, and we’re excited to have you on board. Here, we firmly believe in the power of automation, which has been key to building our market-leading edge. In fact, some even consider us the top player in the industry! We know it might feel overwhelming as you begin your journey, but don’t worry — you’re equipped with the best tools to succeed!
During this full day Ansible Automation Platform event, you will learn Ansible Automation Platform’s capabilities and use cases, and we’ll tackle your new fictional company’s challenges together through a hands-on lab that walks you through solving each use case/story.
Why attend?
Attending the Ansible Automation Platform event gives you an opportunity to immerse yourself in industry-leading automation insights that can transform your business operations by adopting a "mission-critical" mindset.
You'll have the opportunity to hear from experts and learn best practices for automating real-world scenarios.
When you leave this interactive event, you'll be able to:
Introduction to Ansible Automation Platform
Understand how AAP can drive efficiency from planning, to provision, to maintenance in your IT estate
Experience diverse use cases that can leverage Ansible automation
Have an amazing time while building new connections as you explore your automation journey
Learn to build a successful IT automation practice within your organization
Lab Highlights (see more details below)
Time: 10:15 AM - 6:00 PM (UTC-04:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
Date: Thursday, June 12, 2025
Location: The Westin Huntsville, 6800 Governors West, NW, Huntsville, Alabama, 35806, United States
Room: Mediterranean 1 & 2
Any questions? Reach out to sgianaku@redhat.com
Time |
Session |
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10:15 AM | Registration |
10:30 AM - 11:45 AM | Introduction to Ansible Automation Platform |
11:45 AM - 12:30 PM | Lunch |
12:30 AM - 2:00 PM | Lab 1 |
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM | Lab 2 |
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM | Lab 3 |
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM | Networking reception - “Building a successful IT automation practice” |
Lab scenario descriptions and details:
You want to start automating but you don’t want to impact any production servers or make any changes.
In this challenge we focus on creating file system backups and creating scheduled snapshots.
Why is this important ?
Being able to drive backups/snapshots automatically allows us to safeguard against future problematic changes to systems.
Automating backups as part of an automation workflow allows us to roll back changes in the event of a task failure.
You want to start automating but you don’t want to impact any production servers or make any changes.
In this challenge we focus on Ansible’s ability to gather data on our systems and to use this data for infrastructure awareness.
Why is this important ?
Ansible is able to automate multiple domains, this makes it a powerful tool to gather facts, collect important service data and create dynamic reports for our team's awareness.
AAP technologies utilized
You want to start automating but you don’t want to impact any production servers or make any changes.
In this challenge we utilize the ansible.windows content collection to gather a required update list
Why is this important ?
Patch management is a critical part of infrastructure. Finding out which updates are needed can be extremely useful at scale. Ansible Automation Platform can provide a centralized reporting and patch management interface for your different servers.
AAP technologies utilized
Learning Objectives:
Location:
The Westin Huntsville
6800 Governors West, NW
Huntsville, Alabama, 35806, United States
Date: Thursday, June 12, 2025
Time: 10:15 AM - 6:00 PM (UTC-04:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
Any questions? Reach out to sgianaku@redhat.com.