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Timothy Appnel

Senior Product Manager & Evangelist, Ansible
Red Hat
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Senior Product Manager & Evangelist, Ansible

Red Hat

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Timothy Appnel is a Senior Product Manager, product evangelist and "Jack of all trades" on the Ansible team at Red Hat. Tim is an old-timer in the Ansible community that has been contributing since version v0.5. The synchronize module in Ansible is all his fault.

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Tim has over 28 years of corporate IT and startup experience across numerous industries.

Currently he is working for Ansible, a Red Hat company, in their product management team focusing on the Ansible Galaxy ecosystem initiative. Prior to joining Ansible, Tim worked in the finance industry leading a team of engineers focused on automated testing, deployment, orchestration and configuration of trading systems. Tim also operated his own consultancy, The Appnel Group, specializing in web publishing, social networking and cloud computing solutions.

Tim is an active member of the Ansible open source project community almost since its inception in addition to other open source projects He was also an active member of the Movable Type (MT) blog/web publishing software community since version 1.2 (December 2001) that included the foundation of an open source fork of the software called Melody. He is widely credited with spearheading the development of the first corporate weblog to use MT.

In addition to being a technologist, Tim also has a background in amateur publications ("fanzines"), which include co-founding Oculus Magazine, a free indie music and arts publication, in 1991 and managing it for over seven years.

Tim's outside interests include playing volleyball, making (and drinking) craft cocktails, travel, listen to his growing and eclectic music collection and DJing amongst others.

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Tim is a product evangelist and "Jack of all trades" on the Ansible team at Red Hat.

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Presentations (7)
Automating the Management of Kubernetes Applications with Ansible

Ansible fits naturally into any Kubernetes environment. Both are very active and widely used open source projects with vibrant communities that help make hard things easier.

This talk will demonstrate how Ansible along with its built-in templating and k8s module can be used instead of static YAML definitions that are manually applied using kubectl for rapid, repeatable and consistent multi-cluster deployments.

Further, Ansible makes it easier to deploy and manage the complete lifecycle of complex Kubernetes applications. Traditionally, Operators have been written in Go and require expertise with the internals of Kubernetes. Ansible is also a first class citizen of the Operator SDK that provides an alternative to using Go with a lower barrier to entry. It frees up application engineers, maximizes time to automate and orchestrate your applications, and doing it across new & existing platforms with one simple language.

Operations by Pull Request: An Ansible GitOps Story

GitOps is a means of accelerating and simplifying application deployments and operational tasks using Git version control as your systems “source of truth” and pull requests to manage, automate and track changes.

Implementing effective GitOps workflows with the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform has never been easier using the webhooks capabilities in Ansible Tower. Here we will see how.

We will begin by exploring the topic with a brief overview of what is GitOps and some basic recommended practices in implementing such a workflow. The talk will continue with a walk through of how to setup and configure webhooks with the Ansible Automation Platform. The talk will conclude with a live demonstration of using Ansible Tower in a GitOps workflow for Kubernetes multi-cluster deployment and management.

Building Kubernetes Operators in an Ansible-Native Way

An Operator is a method of packaging, deploying and automating the complete lifecycle management activities of a Kubernetes application.

While powerful, Operators are usually written in Go by software developers that have a deep understanding of how to write K8s controllers using advanced libraries and patterns.

Enter Ansible.

Ansible is a first class citizen in the Operator SDK providing a means of automating the deployment and management of Kubernetes applications on a cluster in an Ansible-native way. Ansible-based Operators provide a lower barrier to entry, faster iterations and the power of Ansible and its ecosystem. Combining Ansible and Kubernetes frees up application engineers to minimize the new skill sets required to maximize time to delivery. Furthermore, using the same tried and trusted Ansible tooling lets you automate and orchestrate your applications across both new and existing platforms allowing with one simple language.

In this talk we demonstrate how.

Establishing DevOps Culture

When development and operations work together, good things happen for the business. Often associated with CI/CD, containers, microservices, and public clouds, DevOps is first and foremost a cultural transformation focused on open communication, respect, trust and collaboration facilitated by automation.

DevOps culture begins with people and acknowledges that everyone has valuable input and communicates and participates during the development and delivery processes. Organizations that can successfully establish DevOps culture benefit from significantly shorter time to market, improved customer satisfaction, better product quality, more reliable operations and the increased ability to build the right product by fast experimentation.

In this session, we will discuss what are the characteristics of DevOps culture and how to get started in transforming your organization.

The Future of the Ansible Ecosystem

Ansible is a simple, powerful and agentless automation tool has accomplished a lot since February 2012 when the first commit was made. Here we will review the architectural and community factors that contributed to its accomplishments and the challenges that it must now address. Tim will cover how Ansible is being evolved over the coming years into a platform and then demo some of the new features that have begun to emerge in recent releases.

Ansible Best Practices: The Essentials

Ansible is a Swiss army knife for DevOps, capable of handling many powerful automation tasks with the flexibility to adapt to many environments and workflows. Using real world examples, we share "the essentials" for all Ansible users. Whether you're brand new to Ansible or looking for a refresher, this talk provides the best practices you need to know.

Ansible Best Practices: Roles & Modules

This presentation is a follow-up to Ansible Best Practices: The Essentials. It will delve into the topics of developing roles and modules to extended the power of Ansible automation while maintaining readability and simplicity. Based on actual experiences helping Ansible users, we'll show you what to do, and what not to do, to create this most reliable, resilient, and easy-to-manage automation solutions.

Past talks (7)
Operations by Pull Request: An Ansible GitOps Story
DevConf.CZ
Brno, Czech Republic
January 24, 2020
State of Automation - Automation Everywhere
Ansible Automates London
London, UK
January 28, 2019
Ansible Best Practices: Roles & Modules
AnsibleFest Austin
Austin, TX
October 2, 2018
DevOps for hybrid cloud: Automation, security, and IT operations at scale
Red Hat Summit 2019
Boston, MA
May 9, 2019
Future Directions: An Ansible Developer and Ecosystem Story
cfgmgmt camp
Ghent, Belgium
February 4, 2019
AWS and Ansible: Automating Scalable (and Repeatable) Architecture
Red Hat Summit 2017
Boston, MA
May 4, 2017
Ansible Best Practices
AnsibleFest Brooklyn
Brooklyn, NY
October 11, 2016
  • All (11)
  • Videos (8)
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  • Slides (1)
1 Welcome and State of Automation
Building Kubernetes Operators in an Ansible-native way
Ansible + Nagios: Empowering massive deployments
An Ansible Developer and Ecosystem Story
IT Professionals: Tim Appnel - Product Manager, Red Hat Ansible
Ansible Best Practices: Roles & Modules
Tim Appnel, Red Hat & Eric Dubé, Red Hat | AWS re:Invent 2017
Ansible best practices for startups to enterprises
Ansible Best Practices Essentials AnsibleFest Brooklyn (October 11, 2016)
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Books & Articles (4)

Ansible Best Practices: The Essentials
Using Ansible Automation Webhooks for GitOps
Intro to automation webhooks for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
Operations by Pull Request: An Ansible GitOps Story

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Ansible Automation DevOps Culture DevOps Orchestration Operators GitOps Ansible Best Practices CI/CD Ansible Automation Red Hat Ansible Red Hat Ansible Automation Kubernetes Operators SDK Open Source Communities Open source culture infrastructure as code Best Practices Configuration management Cloud and DevOps Cloud computing Continuous Deployment CD
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I'm a versatile technologist, renaissance man & "Jack of all trades" on the Ansible team at Red Hat.

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