In a recent press release around ‘Ansible lightspeed for AI-Driven IT information’, where ansible is the adopted approach for automation, it recognises that businesses are being pushed to do more with less. This combined with the IDC predictions about IT skill shortages in the next few years, means now is a great time to review your current skills and look to optimise your existing processes.
Have you started automating some of those repeatable tasks? This could be something as simple as creating a user on a system, to provisioning a RHEL instance or IBMi system in a matter of minutes, creating an application server install and profile, deploying an application and having the application automatically configured. This could be either be on-premises, cloud or even as part of a hybrid cloud strategy.
Red Hat Ansible has two ansible repositories, with one being Red Hat certified and the other one being ansible galaxy (driven by a large community). These repositories contain thousands of collections, including specific ones for IBM around IBMi & AIX to networks and many other areas containing sample playbooks with great documentation. Not only are they incredibly useful and reusable but as they are managed under source control (normally with git on GitHub), which most businesses have started to adopt. Therefore, as businesses are adopting their hybrid cloud strategy, it seems only logical for the provision of infrastructure to also be under source control with either ansible playbooks and/or terraform. These can provide repeatable provisioning of infrastructure and give the flexibility to spin up a partition in minutes rather than weeks as well as predicting costs. Once you have your playbooks that you are running manually, why not consider ansible automation controller and start on a journey to repeatable automated workflows.
A few common use cases for IaC are:
– A new test environment
– Carrying out OS upgrades and patches
– Creating a DR partition
Whether you are running on premise, cloud or even hybrid cloud at Meridian IT, we have decades of experience understanding various processes, as well as simplifying and/or re-engineering where required. Meridian IT also carry out automation workshops to access your readiness to get started or to assist in taking it further and expanding into new areas for your business. This combined with an experienced technical services team to aid in any upgrades and ongoing consultancy. Additionally, MITUK provides the option of our private cloud, which runs the latest Power 10 and Intel servers, with the option for 24/7 remote management and monitoring. This service can be integrated with our 24/7 security operations centre, so you can have complete confidence in the security of your critical infrastructure and business applications. For more information, please contact [email protected], and one of our experts will promptly respond to your inquiry.
