Austin RHUG: April 2024

Learn how Event-Driven Ansible integrates with observability solutions to deliver automatic remediation of issues and creates an audit trail via ticket management tools.

General

Link Description
Ansible on YouTube YouTube Channel ran by the Ansible BU with countless tutorials
Zach's Blog My blog focused primarily on challenges that I help customers solve with Ansible
Zach on YouTube My YouTube channel with videos to accompany blog posts on Autodotes

Demo Source Code

Type Link Description
Rulebook Dynatrace Problems Repository containing source code for the Summit Connect demos
Playbook Create ServiceNow Incident Repository containing the backups using Ansible's common data model, as well as golden configs for the configuration-as-code use case
Playbook Expand EC2 Disk Documentation for the first demo of the git configuration backup and restore process
Playbook Update ServiceNow Incident Documentation for the second demo of automated pipelines to deploy configuration on completion of a pull request
Collection servicenow.itsm The Ansible Collection for ServiceNow IT Service Management (ITSM) includes a variety of Ansible content to help automate the management of ServiceNow IT Service Management.
Collection dynatrace.event_driven_ansible This Event source plugin from Dynatrace captures all problems from your Dynatrace tenant and in conjunction with Ansible EDA rulebooks helps to enable auto-remediation in your environment.

Event-Driven Ansible

Link Description
EDA Lab Public landing page for the Event-Driven Ansible labs we walked through together (PDF of slides can be found here)
Getting Started Guide Red Hat's getting started guide with links to additional references
Ansible Rulebook Documentation Official documentation for developing and using Ansible rulebooks
Building Custom Decision Environments Guide for building custom decision environments (requires customer login)
ansible.eda Collection Source code for the ansible.eda collection available in the default execution environment
cloin.eda Collection Source code for the cloin.eda collection - useful reference for developing your own custom source plugins (example for ServiceNow available)

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