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Automation Priorities for 2025
A step-by-step guide to achieving automation success.
Red Hat Summit 2025 - Data-Driven Automation with NetBox Hands on Lab
Data is the foundation for scalable, reliable infrastructure automation, but many organizations struggle with inventory management and data configuration as they work to fully automate their infrastructure lifecycle.
On May 21st, 2025, Nick Thompson presented a session at Red Hat Summit in Boston, MA, in which he introduced NetBox, a solution for modeling and documenting modern networks as a single source of truth for network automation, built on Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. In this session, they explored this data-centric automation approach with live demonstrations of automating:
* Device and data onboarding into the NetBox platform using Ansible Automation Platform.
* Day 0 network provisioning.
* Day 2 operations and configuration compliance.
* Testing and validation
This event provides access to the companion lab presented during the session so that attendees can get hands-on experience with the technologies and integrations demonstrated during the talk.
How to Automate Everything Right: WWT's 6 Principles of Automation
Automation plays a critical role in our daily work, touching solutions that span technologies, partners and industries. In our many years of working with clients, we've identified six principles that can help organizations automate everything right.
From Deploy to Retire: Optimize Every IT Asset
Most organizations are pouring 25x more effort into maintaining IT infrastructure than deploying it — and paying the price in inefficiency and rising costs. Why? Because traditional methods of IT asset management are broken in the face of modern scale and complexity. Join WWT's Managing Director of Automation Solutions Mark Wall as he shares proven strategies and insights to help your organization take control of its infrastructure, reduce operational drag and unlock new value across the lifecycle. It's time to move beyond deployment. Let's automate what comes next.
Data-driven Automation with Netbox
In this hands-on lab, learners will explore how to build and configure a data-driven automation workflow using Ansible Automation Platform and NetBox. The lab guides users through practical exercises that demonstrate how real-time source of truth changes can trigger automated configuration. Participants will configure NetBox event rules and webhooks to emit actionable events, set up Event-Driven Ansible event streams to receive and process those events, and create rulebook activations that respond intelligently. By the end of the lab, learners will have a working solution that tightly integrates their source of truth with automation workflows—enabling scalable, responsive infrastructure management.
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Automation Learning Path for IT Leaders - Intro Video
This video introduces the learning path for IT leaders to better help them build automation strategy
Getting Started with Ansible Lightspeed
AI has taken center stage in the automation landscape, transforming how we develop and manage infrastructure. In this hands-on lab, you'll explore how to harness the innovative capabilities of Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed with IBM watsonx Code Assistant—a powerful generative AI service designed to accelerate your Ansible content creation and maintenance. Guided step-by-step, you'll set up and utilize this service within your local development environment using Visual Studio Code, empowering you to automate faster and smarter.
AI at a Standstill? How Automation Unlocks Real ROI
AI investments are skyrocketing—but without automation, costly infrastructure sits idle and innovation stalls. In this episode of WWT Presents Research, Robb Boyd joins automation expert Corey Wanless to reveal how organizations can eliminate AI bottlenecks and finally turn infrastructure into impact. Learn the critical automation strategies that top enterprises are prioritizing in 2025 to stay competitive.
Agentic AI in Capital Markets: Insights from SIFMA Ops 2025
An exploration of workflows and use cases for agentic AI in operations groups within capital markets firms.
Transforming Business with Automation for IT Leaders
IT leaders must navigate complex challenges while driving efficiency and innovation through automation. This learning path equips IT decision-makers with the essential skills to assess their current automation landscape, prioritize initiatives, and develop a structured, actionable execution plan. By the end of this learning path, IT leaders will have a well-defined strategy and execution plan to streamline operations, reduce costs, and enhance IT agility through automation.
Partner POV | IBM watsonx Code Assistant's Latest Expansion in Infrastructure Automation
IBM watsonx Code Assistant is setting out to further expand its IT Automation capabilities to include Terraform, enhancing infrastructure management across the software lifecycle.
From Deploy to Retire: Optimize Every IT Asset
Most organizations are pouring 25x more effort into maintaining IT infrastructure than deploying it — and paying the price in inefficiency and rising costs. Why? Because traditional methods of IT asset management are broken in the face of modern scale and complexity. Join WWT's Managing Director of Automation Solutions Mark Wall as he shares proven strategies and insights to help your organization take control of its infrastructure, reduce operational drag and unlock new value across the lifecycle. It's time to move beyond deployment. Let's automate what comes next.
Ansible Automation Workshop - Cisco AAP Lab
This lab is intended for internal use only in the Ansible Automation Workshop.
Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) is an enterprise automation solution from Red Hat designed to join the power of Ansible Engine for automation with a suite of products that allow you to centralize, standardize, and operationalize your enterprise's automation at scale.
This **hands-on** lab is designed to accompany the instructor-led workshop and provides exercises for practicing what you've learned about the Ansible Automation Platform ecosystem.
The full instructional content is available in the [Infrastructure Automation with Ansible Automation Platform Learning Path](https://www.wwt.com/learning-path/infrastructure-automation-with-ansible-automation-platform), which includes these hands-on labs plus additional instruction to teach you about AAP.
Red Hat Summit 2025 - Data-Driven Automation with NetBox Hands on Lab
Data is the foundation for scalable, reliable infrastructure automation, but many organizations struggle with inventory management and data configuration as they work to fully automate their infrastructure lifecycle.
On May 21st, 2025, Nick Thompson presented a session at Red Hat Summit in Boston, MA, in which he introduced NetBox, a solution for modeling and documenting modern networks as a single source of truth for network automation, built on Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. In this session, they explored this data-centric automation approach with live demonstrations of automating:
* Device and data onboarding into the NetBox platform using Ansible Automation Platform.
* Day 0 network provisioning.
* Day 2 operations and configuration compliance.
* Testing and validation
This event provides access to the companion lab presented during the session so that attendees can get hands-on experience with the technologies and integrations demonstrated during the talk.
How AI is Forcing a Redesign of Enterprise Infrastructure
Neil Anderson and Nick Lippis explore the urgent need to rethink architecture for a real-time, data-intensive future.
Data-driven Automation with Netbox
In this hands-on lab, learners will explore how to build and configure a data-driven automation workflow using Ansible Automation Platform and NetBox. The lab guides users through practical exercises that demonstrate how real-time source of truth changes can trigger automated configuration. Participants will configure NetBox event rules and webhooks to emit actionable events, set up Event-Driven Ansible event streams to receive and process those events, and create rulebook activations that respond intelligently. By the end of the lab, learners will have a working solution that tightly integrates their source of truth with automation workflows—enabling scalable, responsive infrastructure management.
You Can't Automate What You Don't Know: Why Visibility Is the Top Automation Priority for 2025
Automation promises faster deployments, fewer errors and greater efficiency—but what if the biggest barrier isn't technical at all? Many organizations are charging ahead with automation strategies without a clear understanding of their own IT environments.
In this episode of WWT Presents Research host Robb Boyd sits down with Nick Thompson Distinguished Solutions Architect at World Wide Technology, to explore the foundational role of infrastructure visibility in automation success.
Advancing AI in Healthcare to Improve Efficiency and Unlock Productivity
While typically slow to adopt new technology, healthcare providers appear willing to embrace AI to augment clinical decision making and reduce burdensome administrative tasks. Health systems are accelerating AI adoption to drive operational efficiency and better care outcomes.
Join WWT Chief Healthcare Advisor Dr. Sanaz Cordes and Senior AI Consultant Drew Pikey as they talk about how healthcare organizations can overcome challenges related to AI adoption, the risks involved in integrating AI throughout your organization and use cases that are driving the most value (both today and in the future).
Ansible Automation Workshop - F5 BIG-IP Ansible Lab
This lab focuses on using Ansible to efficiently manage F5 BigIP configurations. It covers setting up the development environment, working with Ansible inventory, creating playbooks for automating tasks on F5 BigIP devices, deploying configuration changes, and a bonus challenge of setting up an Active/Standby configuration and performing configuration synchronization. The lab aims to provide participants with hands-on experience in automating F5 BigIP configuration management using Ansible.
Ansible Automation Workshop - Pure Ansible Lab
Learn to automate Pure FlashArray on Purity using Ansible. This lab provides an overview of Ansible and dives into how it works together to simplify automation for Pure Storage solutions.
Infrastructure Automation and DevOps Solutions
From WWT's DevOps practice, Matthew Perry, Senior Director of DevOps Enablement and Tyler Hatton, Technical Solutions Architect, discuss the challenges that our customers face around DevOps. They also review how WWT can help customers in this practice and WWT's capabilities and solutions in DevOps.
Instrumenting AI for Network Operations at a Federal Healthcare Agency
A federal healthcare agency is leveraging AI, network data and a proven operational workflow engine to automate its network operations. By integrating AI into day-zero configurations, routine network administration and common troubleshooting tasks, network operators are significantly increasing their efficiency. A WWT automation consultant is at the forefront, guiding the agency in applying AI-driven solutions to streamline and modernize its network management.
Pure Ansible Automation Lab
If you are familiar with Ansible and want to learn how to use Ansible with the Pure Storage FlashArray, continue on with this lab that demonstrates how to simplify automation of a Pure Storage FlashArray.
*** If you are a Storage admin, new to automation, and want to learn how to automate your Pure Storage environment using Ansible, check out this lab instead that teaches the basics of Ansible from a storage admin point of view.- "Ansible Automation Workshop - Pure Ansible Lab" (https://www.wwt.com/lab/ansible-automation-workshop-pure-ansible-lab)
Network Automation Maturity Model
Our Network Automation Maturity Model gives organizations a structured framework for moving from limited automation to a fully autonomous network. Discover where your organization stands today and the steps you can take to level up.
Automation Briefing
Organizations across every industry are looking to automation to give their business a competitive advantage. In many cases, automation is already underway with multiple grassroots efforts. Automation is the cornerstone that allows IT to provide consumable infrastructure for development and application teams inside your organization. Automation is also key to reducing toil and having engineering and operations teams focus on important work and driving your business into the future. However, for many, getting started with Automation can seem like a daunting task, and prioritizing where to start can be a difficult decision.