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REDtalks #17 – Orchestration 2.0 (w/ a side of bacon)

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Greeting automators and welcome to edisode #17 of REDtalks. Today’s guest is Tyler Hatton who is from WWTs own internal IT Operations team. Tyler is the F5 BIG-IP Subject Matter Expert for WWT and is hell-bent on replacing the mundane with declarative interfaces and orchestration systems.

Watch this episode to hear about the interesting culture at WWT and their regular hack-a-thon’s. These events themed at breaking the routine and investing internally in continuous education and, my favorite, “continuous improvement”. Following this, Hatton talks us through his brilliantly named, hack-a-thon winning, “(P)orchestrator” solution!

Tune it to understand the time-saving, self-service interface that Tyler produced, quite literally, from the Ops ‘drivers seat’.

 

Many thanks, Tyler, for sharing your story!

REDtalks #16 – Andy & Tom on Metrics Driven Automation

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In episode #16 we are joined by Andreas (Andy) Grabner, of Dynatrace, and Tom McGonagle, of F5 Networks.

Watch this episode to hear about Metrics Driven Automation, or Informed Automation, and how this takes the feat out of fully integrated deployment pipelines. Andy shares some great insights on how to avoid automating oneself into dangerous situations.

Following this, Tom shows us (yes, a live demo) how to deploy an F5 BIG-IP policy using the CI/CD tool, Jenkins.

 

You may recall Tom from a previous episode, REDtalks #14 – Tom & David on the Principles & Practices of DevOps. Thanks for coming back, Tom! Here’s the Jenkins Github repo he referenced in his demo: https://github.com/mcgonagle/F5file

And thanks, Andy, for your valuable insights on  impelmenting safe, information automation. Andreas To hear more from Andy Grabner, take a look at some of these links:

Thanks, both, for your time!