AnsibleFest spotlights new innovations in IT automation and why OpsDev is the new software operating model – SiliconANGLE News

As the open-source computing tide rose, Ansible which exists under the Red Hat Inc. umbrella was one of the prominent boats lifted.

Now, as the project notches its 10-year milestone, it has made several announcements toward better integration into the existing cloud-native paradigm.

I think youre gonna see a lot more of this automation at scale, said John Furrier, analyst at theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Medias livestreaming studio. I love the introduction ofoperations as code; thats a little piggyback off of infrastructure as code and infrastructure asconfiguration. Theyre saying operations now is the new softwaremodel and its like OpsDev, not DevOps.

As part of a day 1 keynote analysis during this weeksAnsibleFest event, Furrier and co-hostLisa Martin, industry analyst at theCUBE, dissected the keynote for signals on the projects forward direction and new innovations in IT automation.(* Disclosure below.)

Much of the day 1 keynote content focused on cultural shifts within the enterprise, as well as how Ansibles automation technology is adjusting to them. Thekey takeawayfocused onconfiguration and automationaround devices and infrastructure stuff is an enterprise architecture now, according to Furrier.

Its not just a kind of a corner case or a specific use case, he added.Its gonna be native across the entire enterprise architecture. And thats why we heard a lotof cultural shift conversations.

Part of that cultural shift, as Ansible stressed in the keynote, is the organizational onus of rethinking the approach to automation, where it transcends being putin silos and pockets, according to Martin. Automation, therefore, needs to become strategic across an organization.

Ansible can sit across all the environments and then still support the cloud-native through an automation loop, Furrier stated. Thats going to really talk to what were seeing as multicloud or supercloud, where Ansibles role of automating isnt just corner case in the enterprise.

Heres the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLEs and theCUBEs coverage of the AnsibleFest event:

(* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for the AnsibleFest event. Neither Red Hat Inc., the main sponsor for theCUBEs event coverage, nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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