AUTOMATION:
Major player in cloud and server hosting in Europe
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Context:
The customer wishes to industrialize and instrument its configuration management system already in place under Ansible Tower (AWX) in order to take advantage of it and increase the efficiency and productivity of its engineers (DevOps Ansible).
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Problem solver approach:
Design and implementation of an ELK cluster used as a search engine, dashboarding and CMDB for Ansible Tower inventories, allowing to easily search past tasks and perform analytics.
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Result:
Ability to verify task results, create/bootstrap and manage inventories, perform security audits, identify configuration drifts, automate troubleshooting and correction (self-remediation) : ~35% of provisioning error reduction, configuration and rollback.
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Technical stack involved:
Ansible, Tower/AWX, Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana), Syslog, Filebeat