Description
This residency is designed to document automation capabilities through the use of Ansible on IBM Power Systems. This will be a virtual residency. No travel is required.
Details
Starts 31 Jul 2023, ends 25 Aug 2023 (4 weeks) and requires 10 residents
Residency Leader: Tim Simon
Location: Virtual residency
Benefits to Resident
IT administrators, developers, and QA engineers are continuously seeking opportunities to streamline and automate anything repetitive to save time, increase reliability and minimize human error. In a hybrid multi-cloud landscape, streamlining starts with establishing consistent tools and processes across all environments.
This is why Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is enabled for IBM Power Systems — across AIX and IBM i including for environments running on Power Systems private and public cloud infrastructures.
Enterprises already using Ansible for other IT infrastructure (such as x86 or IBM Z servers) can seamlessly integrate Power servers as well. The Ansible content helps enable DevOps automation through unified workflow orchestration with configuration management, provisioning, and application deployment in one, easy-to-use platform. This is an important step to delivering a comprehensive enterprise-grade solution for building and operating IT automation at scale.
Ansible Use Cases
OS configuration management for AIX and IBM i:
Patch management
Security management
OS & application deployment
Continuous delivery
Centralized backup and recovery
Virtualization management and provisioning
IBM Redbooks want technical practitioners to be recognized for their newly gained knowledge, experience, and accomplishments. Therefore, upon successful delivery of the publication produced by this IBM Redbooks residency, you will become eligible to earn an IBM Redbooks Digital Badge issued through Credly.
Objectives
Resident Prerequistes
A basic requirement for all residents is the ability to read and clearly express concepts and procedures in common English.
Residents should be comfortable working in an IBM Power environment.
Ideally the resident should be familiar with one or more of the following areas:
AIX system management.
PowerVM and LPAR management
IBM i system management
Red Hat OpenShift running on Power
Speaking and writing in English is a requirement.
Skills
Skill | Requested level |
|---|---|
| English. | 3 |
| IBM Power Systems Virtual Server. | 3 |
| IBM Power Systems (POWER9) installation and management including PowerVM virtualization features. | 4 |
| IBM PowerSC comprehensive knowledge and experiences. | 2 |
| IBM Power Systems Security experiences. | 2 |
| Infrastructure Security experiences | 2 |
| Linux distros installation and management (SUSE and Red Hat). | 4 |
| IBM System Storage Solutions and disk replication experiences. | 2 |
| Networking and I/O protocols configurations experiences. | 3 |
| Experiences with applications running in containers managed by Red Hat OpenShift in multicloud environments. | 3 |
| Technical documentation skills. | 4 |
| Willing to learn, read, ask questions, and have fun while at it. | 4 |