Automation.Day

As customers look for alternatives to VMWare, Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, which is included with Red Hat OpenShift, is finding itself front and center as an option to help reduce operational overhead by giving customers one platform for virtual machines (VMs) and containers.

In this session, you will learn how leveraging the Ansible Automation Platform with OpenShift Virtualization allows for consistent provisioning across your environment.   It opens a path to modernization by bringing modern application development principles to VMs and enables teams to run VMs consistently across on-premises, edge, and supported cloud environments.

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Since 1987, CiscoLive has been the premiere event for networking education, collaboration, and fun.  Las Vegas 2023 brought 19,600 attendees to the Mandalay Bay Conference Center and adjacent properties.  To support the event, the CiscoLive team has a few days to provision 2300 wireless access points, over 650 switches, and a mobile data center.  

This session is a behind-the-scenes look at the automation and network monitoring done to support such a significant event in a short amount of time.  In this session, you will hear about open-source solutions like InfluxDB and Grafana and the importance of standardized management interfaces like gRPC and NETCONF/YANG.  We will also share the git repos containing many collection scripts and Grafana dashboard definition files, which you can use to get started and tweak to serve your needs!

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The journey from manual human intervention to scalable automation is paramount. This presentation will dive into the power of network automation guided by the principles of configuration-as-code and infrastructure-as-code. Through real examples and insights, we will understand how to successfully transition from traditional methods to automated frameworks, uncovering efficiency, scalability, and agility along the way. We will also touch on how culture influences the adoption and success of automation initiatives and the strategies for fostering an evolution toward automated, scalable network infrastructure.

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Are you automating your infrastructure to increase efficiency and accuracy? What if integrating changes to storage infrastructure are needed within those processes?

Traditionally, integrating storage infrastructure with mainstream automation tools has posed challenges, leading to delays, decreased efficiency, and the risk of human error.

In this presentation, we'll explore Pure Storage's comprehensive integration of its storage platforms into Ansible, the world's leading automation toolset. These integrations empower your automation workflows to incorporate storage provisioning and management seamlessly.

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This session will provide an introductory overview of GitLab's CI/CD capabilities.  We will also explore key GitLab CI/CD concepts, including the basics of setting up a GitLab pipeline using the GitLab Auto-DevOps one-click feature, modifying a GitLab pipeline using basic BASH shell scripting, and introducing the idea of using docker-in-docker containers as part of a pipeline.

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BIG-IP application automation has been at the forefront for a decade.  As we look to build out the next ten years of automation, this session will help you learn about F5's new methodologies and implementations and where we went wrong over the past ten years.

Because BIG-IP and applications are no longer in single or DR locations due to digital transformation and the global pandemic, our implementation footprints have moved to distributed locations.  In this presentation, we will observe firsthand how BIG-IP application automation has changed to support this transformation, including how we create reusable items with local resources.  

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Automation alone will not save you. In this session, we will describe the five dragons that cause modernization efforts to fail even when you hire excellent people and buy the best tools. We'll show how building systems that are (1) reusable with (2) strong abstractions delivered with (3) Infrastructure as Code pipelines allows you to create robust (4) processes that boost cross-team (5) collaboration. We will also talk about pragmatic actions that you can take to empower your teams to build automation and infrastructure that accelerate your business.

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