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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