Roland Wolters

Automation is currently a focus topic for many IT departments. It is often overlooked that in successful automation projects it is not the change to a new technology that is decisive - but the cultural change within the department, the company. In this lecture, participants will learn that it depends on the acceptance of all users of the system, why islands are not a good idea for automation, and that automation does not have to take care of individual servers, but business processes.

Security is hard. We know what needs to be done, but configuring systems and applications, especially thousands of them, to make life more difficult for attackers is daunting. Learn to use the agentless, push-based power of Ansible to apply and enforce security standards that adapt to meet internal and external security guidelines.

An overview about the past, present and future of Ansible, Ansible Tower and the open source projects that stand behind both.