Government agencies are under pressure to modernize operations – but what does this mean for legacy environments? Actually, agile development and operational methodologies can be achieved in legacy environments; the answer is rooted in IT automation. Join us for a live webinar and we’ll show you how you can implement agile/DevOps without leaving legacy behind. You’ll learn how to: • Make more efficient use of existing resources – people, processes and technology • Prepare your agency for a migration to the cloud • Help drive adoption of agile methodologies

1. How to do DevOps Without Leaving
Legacy Behind
June 2015

2. ABOUT THE PRESENTER
Justin Nemmers
@justnems
jnemmers@ansible.com
15+ years in US Public Sector
HPC administration background
Consulting
Technical
Sales

3. 87% of Federal IT managers said they
can’t develop and deploy new systems as
fast as the mission requires, citing delays
from operational, policy, and security
requirements.
MeriTalk 2015 PS Survey

4. THEMES IN IT TODAY
DEVOPS AND CLOUD
o Seismic shift in how organizations work with IT
OPERATIONAL AGILITY
o Automation is required for both DevOps and Cloud
DEFINE ONCE, RUN ANYWHERE
o Automation improves cloud-posture and technology
adoption
INFRASTRUCTURE
o Best and easiest place to start w/ automation

5. WHAT IS DEVOPS
COLLABORATIVE
o Complete end-to-end application lifecycle management
COHESIVE (COMBINES FUNCTIONS In Theory)
o Development
o QA, and
o IT operations all working together
FORWARD-LOOKING
o Typically applied to greenfield environments

6. DEVOPS IN LEGACY IS
HARD

7. ENTRENCHED

8. LARGE EXISTING
INVESTMENTS

9. REUSE
IS
DIFFICULT

10. BUSY

11. TEAM SPANNING

12. COMMUNICATION

13. DEVOPS NEEDS AUTOMATION
ENABLES REUSE
o Leverage existing people, processes, and (often)
technology
INCREASES SAVINGS
o Free up time for value add
SPANS SILOS
o Keep teams working efficiently with easy interaction
CREATES REPEATABILITY
o Lather, rinse, repeat

14. THE LANGUAGE OF ENTERPRISE IT
o Ansible is the first “infrastructure-as-code” that can be read and written
across IT… from sys-admins to developers to managers
o Ansible is the only automation engine that can automate the entire
application lifecycle & continuous delivery pipeline
DEV/TEST Q/A OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT INFRASTRUCTURE
Ansible Playbook
From development… to production.

15. WHY INFRASTRUCTURE FIRST?
o Lots of repetition
o Well defined and understood processes
o High value
o Many consumers
o Near-immediate impact

16. Typical Method
Manual
Lacks…
continuous
compliance
feedback loops
portability
cooperation
coordination

17. CONTINUOUS DELIVERY FOR
OS
o Leverage existing build tools
o Employ automation to eliminate manual
processes
o Frequent small updates with security baseline
testing/application
o Constant validation to baseline and definition
o New and existing systems look the same
o OS environments gets version control
o Re-use OS layer in new deployments
o Adopt changes faster

18. ANSIBLE & CONTINUOUS DELIVERY
Ansible Tower connects
development to operations
by orchestrating complex
application environments:
o Application Code
o OS Updates
o Web Servers
o Databases
o Load Balancers
o Networking
o VMs or Cloud Instances
o … and more

19. DevOps Method
Automated
Provides
continuous
compliance
feedback loops
portability
cooperation
coordination

20. BENEFITS
REDUCES TIME TO DELIVERY
o Development and QA get access to prod-configured resources more quickly
IMPROVES COLLABORATION
o Consumers of servers have clear method to define and request changes
ELIMINATES OUTLIERS
o Old systems look the same as new systems
INCREASES ASSURANCE
o Initial and ongoing compliance validation
EASES TROUBLESHOOTING
o Something breaks? Compare existing to definition for immediate transparency
PROMOTES ADOPTION
o Automation doesn’t remove responsibility from concerned teams

21. GET STARTED
o Automation tooling
o Determine Lowest common denominator
o Automate security baselining
o Unify current build process
o Enable auto-application of updates
through CI/CD on OS layer

22. RESOURCES
GETTING STARTED WITH ANSIBLE
o www.ansible.com/get-started
ANSIBLE GOVERNMENT
o www.ansible.com/government
o www.dlt.com/ansible
STIG WEBINAR
o www.ansible.com/ansible-stig-compliance-webinar
ANSIBLE MEETUPS NEAR YOU
o www.ansible.com/ansible-meetups
MERITALK SURVEY
o www.meritalk.com/agile-advantage

23. CONTACT US
DLT Solutions | Enterprise Solutions Team
www.dlt.com/ansible
877.742.8358
enterprise-platforms@dlt.com

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