Experts Industry Practical Demo Session on Ansible

Recently attended a session conducted by LinuxWorld with the industry experts of RedHat Mr. Sreejith Anujan and Mr. Arun Eapen.

The topics which are discussed in the session are Ansible Tower and its different industry use cases like provision, Configuration management, Orchestration, GUI of Ansible Tower.

ANSIBLE

Ansible is an automation tools which is used to configuration management.

Ansible is a radically simple IT automation engine that automates cloud provisioning, configuration management, application deployment, intra-service orchestration, and many other IT needs.

Automation has become very important nowadays in every field. And Ansible is the tools by which we can achieve the automation in almost every field of computer science branch.

ANSIBLE TOWER

Ansible Tower is a web-based solution that makes ansible even more easy to use for IT teams of all kinds. It's designed to be the hub for all your automation tasks.

Ansible Tower is ansible at an enterprise level. It is a web-based solution for managing your organization with a very easy user interface that provides a dashboard with state summaries of all the hosts, allows quick deployments, and monitors all configurations.

Ansible tower provides WebUI with many features such as job template, creating credentials, etc.

Tower is a solution to organization that helps them to scale the automation. We can create two or more ansible tower sharing the same database.

We can integrate any technology with the help of ansible tower such as cloud, network and security.

How to Automate things not supported by Ansible Tower?

By default, Ansible and Ansible Tower doesn't have integration with the Oracle Cloud but we can use the Python Virtual Environment and interact with it.

WorkFlow Template

Here, a question arises that how to combine Multiple ansible Playbook or run multiple playbook one after?

Ansible Tower has a feature of Workflow Template. This helps us to combine the multiple playbook and run.

We can also add approval between the template. Only after approving the next template would run, this is something like ‘if’ ‘else’ condition in workflow. The continuous deployment to production also needs an approve where we can use the approval of the workflow.

Thank you!!!