Ansible

We started with Tower for automated OS updates and configurations. We have since moved to using configuration as code and Ansible Automation Platform to build F5 configurations and build and automate data migrations. We are looking forward to using event-driven ansible and policy as code as learned at Summit. We love it!

We’ve begun leveraging AAP for various workflows that would normally take multiple hours away from our dev's workload, streamlined it to a matter of minutes, and reduced human error significantly. One example would be leveraging the provisioning of application environments directly leveraging Terraform and Ansible. We kick off our terraform files within Ansible, gather the pertinent information for the new environment, and then follow up with additional tasks to configure the environment to expedite the delivery of the environment to the product owner. What would normally take a couple of days between provisioning the servers, patching/adjusting security, and deploying required software done by other teams has been consolidated into a workflow that will complete all the steps of multiple teams in a single workflow. Another use case we have leveraged is the start-to-finish deployment of custom virtual machine images. All with Ansible, we clone a baseline template, update configurations, customize to customer specifications (hostnames, IP addresses, etc.), deploy our proprietary software stack, confirm everything is functioning as intended, shut down the host, and then export the image and upload directly to object storage. From there, it will generate a user/password combination to allow the customer to download the image and notify the project manager to distribute the information to the customer to download the image. Once deployed, a provision callback occurs to finalize the remainder of the deployment, which needs to be done on-site. The entire process would typically take days of coordination between us and the customer, but it has now been reduced to less than a day, depending on how long it takes to deploy.

We use it for bootstrapping servers and configuration management. We also use it for upgrades of software.

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is used for a large variety of automation in our organization. It used by our Operations team for server configuration as well as an integration platform for technical apps like ServiceNow as well as non technical apps like Accela. It often addresses the migration or duplication of data between disparate platforms.

Openshift post creation configuration and remediation

I use Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform to remediate security vulnerabilitys and deploys on app servers, these activities help us to reduce costs and time.

We use AAP to automate our server deployment process, configure network equipment, and install/remove applications and software updates. Our environment is quite large and complex, so automation helps keep it consistent and running smoothly.

We use Ansible for automated workflows. This includes onboarding and off-boarding ESX hosts and Linux and Windows servers—bare metal and VMs. We also use Ansible for OS configuration, app deployment, SQL maintenance, addressing vulnerabilities, and patching.

Workstation configuration management allows us to keep developer workstations in a standard config for development. We have multiple team working on product that integrate with the other and keeping them in the same development environment produces consistent deployment success.

We use Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform for almost every aspect of Red Hat Enterprise Linux OS system administration. This product addresses compliance drift, package and repository management, and custom application deployment. The platform manages almost every OS configuration file, ensuring consistency across all systems in a timely and efficient manner.

Configuration management for a few hundred servers. Automated deployments of our application is done through Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.

Right now, we only do basic stuff with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. We are planning in the coming weeks to use it to update/upgrade our 200+ RHEL servers.
Got a lab today that was very useful, and I will put in place.
We have been trying to use APP/Tower for the past 4 years. The only issue is time, time to write/get playbooks.

Use to configure and validate. Soon will be introducing either awx or ansible controller.

We use Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform to automate infrastructure configuration. While our target uses are still growing and being identified, this helps us reduce human error when deploying infrastructure to our internal customers.

We use Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform for workflow automation. The scope of use cases vary from 5 to 100.

Currently used for patching of various operating systems, including RHEL, Oracle Linux, and Ubuntu. Automated patching was the prime objective of implementing automation. We also use it for Netapp automated reporting, which is then used to make storage decisions.

Patching Installs configuration management

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is used by different groups to automate their templates and workflows.

We currently use Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform in conjunction with Satellite to manage our RHEL instances. We are moving into migrating AIX automation to the use of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and we are adding Windows to the fold. Our initial thrust into those operating systems will be related to configuration management and patching. We anticipate using Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform for other functions tied to surveys. An example would be allowing the help desk for a particular customer to only change passwords for their users on their systems.

We push Ansible Automation Platform to several closed, disconnected areas to enforce standards and ease administration processes. We're in a discovery process where we're looking at all of the possibilities that we can explore to convert homegrown scripts into Ansible playbooks. Enforcing security and administration.

We use Ansible for all of our Cloud deployments, upgrades and configuration updates. We also use it for VM deployments and security updates.

We use AAP for network automation. The issue we have is native integration to CyberArc and HC Vault for secrets injection into automation during runtime

We use Ansible Automation Platform to automate patching of our Linux based systems in a no downtime fashion and to standardize new server deployments.

Ansible has helped reduce time and most importantly configure servers in a constant manner. Idempotent nature of Ansible has helped us make sure that the servers deployed are exactly what we want them to be and nothing else.
We have scheduled automated patching on our RHEL servers.
We have automated server deployment where we provision both Windows and Linux servers.
We automate deploying of Windows IIS server and RHEL 7,8 and 9 Server with CIS hardening on them.

I wanted to use AAP to automate areas in my program infrastructure