Ansible Tower

A session I attended a yesterday really opened up my eyes to the endless possibilities of automation. Automation is cost-effective, time-efficient, and easy to implement. All you need is a computer, and a web browser; or maybe even have Ansible package installed, if you’re really into commands.
Ansible Tower is a WebUI tool based on the Ansible Engine which lets us integrate with 3rd party APIs, provides a workflow environment, clustering ability (in case our controllers crash), notification alerts, job scheduling and credential security.

The biggest ‘take-aways’ were the convenience with which people could automate tasks, you can already use playbooks from a long list of Ansible Collections, which doesn’t rely on you knowing how to write playbooks.
If you’re on an intermediate level of understanding, you can easily integrate your 3rd party product using APIs and creating playbooks for specific needs. A workflow path that allows you to create fallback instances(playbooks) whenever a job is disapproved or fails due to any reason. If you’re on a team and working on a crucial task, you need to readily communicate with each other about developments made, we can even automate that when we’re on a time crunch by enabling Ansible Tower to forward notifications into any channel based messaging app.

On aggregate, the session gave me an insight into how enterprises maneuver, cohesively collaborate, and have a solution for any challenge you can think of. Even under changing circumstances (talking specifically about the COVID pandemic) automation has emerged at the forefront of stabilizing industries heavily reliant on IT infrastructure and building solutions for humanity to cherish.