AUTOMATION:
A major player in cloud and server hosting in Europe
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The context:
The customer wants to industrialise and instrument its existing configuration management system with Ansible Tower (AWX), in order to reap its benefits and increase the efficiency and productivity of its engineers (DevOps Ansible).
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Problem solving approach:
Designed and implemented an ELK cluster to be used as a search engine, dashboard and CMDB for Ansible Tower inventories, making it easy to search for past tasks and perform analysis.
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Result:
Ability to review task results, create/bootstrap and manage inventories, perform security audits, identify configuration drift, automate troubleshooting and remediation (self-healing): 35% reduction in provisioning, configuration and rollback errors.
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Technical stack used :
Ansible, Tower/AWX, Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana), Syslog, Filebeat