Event-Driven Ansible 101

Learn how Event-Driven Ansible (EDA) can be used to build automatic processes for resolving issues that arise in your environment. Integrate EDA with common vendor solutions to increase environment awareness and reduce the mean-time-to-remediation (MTTR). To wrap it up, see a demo of Event-Driven Ansible integrating with observability solutions to deliver automatic remediation of issues. During the remediation, Ansible will create an audit trail on an ITSM platform to ensure changes can be tracked and reviewed.

Fundamentals

Link	Description
EDA Documentation	The landing page for navigating Event-Driven Ansible documentation
Rulebooks	Learn the basics for writing rulebooks - the core of Event-Driven Ansible
Event Source Plugins	Event source plugins are key to integrating with common vendor platforms that comprise an enterprise IT landscape
Decision Environments	Similar to execution environments, decision environments are a consistent way to run your rulebooks

Instruqt Labs

Link	Description
Event-Driven Ansible Controller: Up and Running	Learn the basics of using Event-Driven Ansible controller—the graphical user interface for event-driven automation that enables the automated resolution of IT requests
Getting Started with Rulebooks	Learn about the fundamental components of Event-Driven Ansible and go through some examples
Event-Driven Ansible NetOps	Use Event-Driven Ansible to react to network events as well as work with ChatOps.
Event-Driven Ansible GitOps	Use Event-Driven to react to git operations

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 Webhook	Rulebook to process events from the Dynatrace Problems API
Playbook	Create ServiceNow Incident	Playbook to create a ServiceNow incident (with idempotency)
Playbook	Expand EC2 Disk	Playbook to add disk space to an EC2 instance
Playbook	Update ServiceNow Incident	Playbook to update a ServiceNow incident
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.

Demo Visuals

Technology Stack

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