Ansible Tower

Challenge

The customer’s increasing complexity of technology systems led to significant increases in man-hours spent ensuring compliance with policy and mitigating risk associated with misconfiguration and deviation from established baselines. Recognizing the need for all systems to reliably and verifiably adhere to established configuration standards and guidelines, the customer turned to Atlas Tech to implement a collaborative automation solution.

Atlas Solution

Atlas Tech implemented Red Hat’s Ansible Tower Automation to meet the customer’s configuration management and automation needs, which was critical in light of a reorganization that combined two service divisions with multiple configuration and management automation systems. Ansible, an open-source IT automation engine that automates provisioning, configuration management, application deployment, and many other IT processes, can install software, automate daily tasks, provision infrastructure, improve security and compliance, patch systems, and share automation across an organization. Atlas conducted the initial required business process interviews across the customer, employing tested measures to ensure the accuracy of the data collected. The data provided focused the Atlas team on creating active directory objects and a website offering multiple features to automate the process further. The resulting increased functionality includes saving all data entered by the application team and utilizing a search feature to select particular applications and modify/update the saved data by search criteria. Additional Atlas Tech implemented features include updated file consolidation, resulting in a reduction of single entries and the ability to create multiple role groups.

Results

• Ansible Tower functionality to automate the configuration of infrastructure, automate active directory objects, and implement role-based access control
• Website capabilities for pre-interview and interview purposes, search and update functionality, upload and consolidation of files, and to provide the input feed to Ansible Tower
• Atlas Tech ongoing support in continued updates and enhancements including RBAC