AWX - single point of deployment
Track
DevOps & Cloud
Date and time
Thursday, 19. October 2023., 09:55
Room
Hall D
Duration
45'
Is there a single platform for deploying different artifacts and configurations? In addition, it would be great if it is open source! You are using that platform in production? These are frequent questions to which we have found an answer, and the answer is AWX - the upstream project of the Ansible Automation platform. We used this platform as a central place for deploying different artifacts to different environments, including Java applications, BPM projects, RASD for Oracle (ORDS, PL/SQL projects), and configuration of different middleware. AWX is easily integrated with other CI/CD components, it has a good cli tool, and it also includes role-based access control with which we can assign different projects to the appropriate engineers and other interesting functionalities that facilitate automation. In the years behind us, Ansible has become a synonym for automation, in combination with AWX it can truly become the only place to deploy anything, and active development brings a lot of interesting functionalities that can really find their application in everyday tasks. The aim of this lecture is to show how in ZPIZ (Pension and Disability Insurance Institute of Slovenia) we have achieved the aforementioned by introducing AWX, we have centralized the deployment of most applications, significantly accelerated the development process, increased system security, and simplified the delivery of applications to the production environment. We didn't stop there, we are actively working on expanding the scope of automation and are constantly expanding the existing platform and using every opportunity to automate anything!
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About speaker
Bruno Kurevija, author
Bruno is a team lead at Croz and an experienced system engineer. During more than ten years of work in the IT industry, he participated in the installation, maintenance, automation, design, implementation, analysis and integration of various systems and optimization by applying specific technologies on numerous projects from different business domains. He is a specialist in middleware technologies and different application runtime environments, he is also very experienced in the automation on different platforms (on-premise, private or public cloud). He enjoys maintaining complex systems, automating repetitive tasks, analyzing and solving problems.
Domen Dolar, coauthor
Domen Dolar is the head of applied development at the Institute for Pension and Disability Insurance of Slovenia. He has extensive experience in the development and maintenance of complex business software solutions in various technologies (over 20 years). His tasks mostly relate to development software, taking care of the development methodology, its implementation in development tools (special development virtual environment) and everything that affects it. As a mentor, manager of major development projects (eZPIZ, EESSI, etc.) and minor projects (DevOps, SDG...), key planner and implementer, he takes care of optimization of development in all processes, including those affecting system services. He still has a strong interest in software research and development and regularly tries and tests new platforms and tools. He has been programming since he got his first computer. He gave his first lecture at the then SIOUG (Slovenian Oracle user group) in 2000 as a student in the computer science laboratory of the Faculty of Computer Science and Informatics. Before coming to ZPIZ, he worked in the economy for more than 10 years.
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