RHTE 2016

Customer business and challenges are that partially automated system provisioning with outsourced vendors resulted in low quality work from manual tasks, high workloads, and minimally-skilled staff, resulting in slow time to market and high costs.
Standardized technology with Ansible and approach by Red Hat consulting support enables complete automation for deploying entire environments, increasing efficiency, reducing time to market, and lowering costs.

Challenges: Pressures to be faster, more predictable, higher quality, redude cost (Better, Faster, Cheaper)

1. Slow delivery of project
a. OS provisioning
b. Application Deployment
c. Storage

2. Maintenance
a. Lack of consistency
b. In efficient support
c. No recovery
d. Lack of testability

Solution:
1. Identify a collection of tools to attain solve the existing problem
2. Make sure that the tools selected encourage standards from the get go.
3. Make sure that the solution is reusable

Outcome:
1. Drive standardization
2. Consistency and compliance
3. Auto-build and tear down ability
4. Speed of change on environment
5. Reduce Cost

There are two talks in this presentation.

First. Ansible & CloudForms - Image Hardening.
I have been working with our LUGA client to develop a hardened STIG image on RHEL KVM Guest Image using Ansible & CloudForms.

Second. CloudForms No Login App
The No Login App extends the CloudForms functionality. It enables a nominated approver to approve or deny a CF Service Request by clicking the link in the email, rather than logging into CloudForms.

Review of the OPNFV demo in Berlin. Why a generic CMP can deliver the benefits of NFV Orchestration without reinventing the wheel? How do all the pieces tie together in a way that satisfies Telco's needs?