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Published inSep 2022
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Gineesh Madapparambath
Gineesh Madapparambath
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Gineesh Madapparambath

Gineesh Madapparambath has over 15 years of experience in IT service management and consultancy with experience in planning, deploying, and supporting Linux-based projects. He has designed, developed, and deployed automation solutions based on Ansible and Ansible Automation Platform (formerly Ansible Tower) for bare metal and virtual server building, patching, container management, network operations, and custom monitoring. Gineesh has coordinated, designed, and deployed servers in data centers globally and has cross-cultural experience in classic, private cloud (OpenStack and VM ware), and public cloud environments (AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform). Gineesh has handled multiple roles such as systems engineer, automation specialist, infrastructure designer, and content author. His primary focus is on IT and application automation using Ansible, containerization using OpenShift (and Kubernetes), and infrastructure automation using Terraform.
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Introduction to Red Hat AAP

So far, you have learned how to use Ansible, develop playbooks, create roles, use content collections, and more for your use cases. Anyone can install and use Ansible in their workstation or some random servers in an environment and use them for their automation use cases. However, there won’t be any standardization, traces, or accountability as each person works on their methods and practices. This will result in the following challenges in the organization:

  • Individuals work in silos, which will result in no collaboration in the workplace.
  • Automation artifacts (playbooks, roles, and collections) are not shared between individuals or teams.
  • No logging or auditing options will be available since the automation is running on an individual’s workstation or some random servers.
  • Less control over who can execute the playbooks or automated jobs.
  • Difficulty keeping secrets and credentials.
  • Lack of job scheduling and monitoring...
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Published in: Sep 2022Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781803235417

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Gineesh Madapparambath

Gineesh Madapparambath has over 15 years of experience in IT service management and consultancy with experience in planning, deploying, and supporting Linux-based projects. He has designed, developed, and deployed automation solutions based on Ansible and Ansible Automation Platform (formerly Ansible Tower) for bare metal and virtual server building, patching, container management, network operations, and custom monitoring. Gineesh has coordinated, designed, and deployed servers in data centers globally and has cross-cultural experience in classic, private cloud (OpenStack and VM ware), and public cloud environments (AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform). Gineesh has handled multiple roles such as systems engineer, automation specialist, infrastructure designer, and content author. His primary focus is on IT and application automation using Ansible, containerization using OpenShift (and Kubernetes), and infrastructure automation using Terraform.
Read more about Gineesh Madapparambath