Enhancing Day 2 Operations with Cisco Compute and Pink Hat Ansible Automation
Cisco Stay Amsterdam concluded with important bulletins from Cisco, specializing in AI, Software Modernization, and Safety. Whether or not you joined us in particular person or just about, I hope you discovered the occasion insightful. As a part of the Cisco Stay program, I had the pleasure of unveiling new built-in options developed in collaboration with Pink Hat, leveraging their OpenShift Virtualization and Ansible Automation Platform.
The partnership between Cisco and Pink Hat has been longstanding. Final 12 months we introduced our firms are serving to prospects adapt to infrastructure modernization necessities by constructing built-in options that embody Cisco UCS, Cisco Intersight, Cisco information heart networking, and Pink Hat OpenShift. These options unite best-in-class applied sciences from Cisco and our companions.
We’re enhancing the success of Cisco’s built-in options with Pink Hat OpenShift by introducing a world-class infrastructure automation and administration platform. The Pink Hat Ansible Automation Platform is now obtainable from Cisco, working on main applied sciences like Cisco UCS and Cisco Intersight. Our goal is to supply a strong, scalable, and automatic basis for purchasers who search AI instruments and options to modernize their utility infrastructure and information heart networking, all whereas making certain a easy and seamless procurement course of.
Cisco’s compute and AI merchandise have at all times benefited from deep integrations with the Ansible Automation Platform by way of Licensed Content material Collections. This prolonged partnership expands on present choices by introducing new Ansible Validated Content material collections aligned with Cisco Validated Designs (CVDs). These enhancements allow the total automation of Day 0, Day 1, and Day 2 operations utilizing Pink Hat Ansible Automation Platform, delivering an easy and safe expertise for purchasers.
New CVDs create an structure for automation throughout the Cisco portfolio
(word: In case you are not conversant in Ansible or the Ansible Automation Platform, you’ll be able to be taught extra from Cisco companion – Pink Hat.)
Here’s a abstract of the brand new CVDs and Ansible automation content material we introduced and showcased final week throughout Cisco Stay Amsterdam because of this prolonged partnership:
New CVDs for FlexPod Datacenter with Pink Hat OpenShift Virtualization and Ansible Automation Platform
The FlexPod with Pink Hat OpenShift Container Platform and FlexPod with OpenShift Virtualization Cisco Validated Designs (CVDs) present a strong basis for deploying OpenShift on FlexPod bare-metal infrastructure.
Whereas preliminary deployment is vital, Day 2 operations—together with system upkeep, scaling, safety enforcement, and efficiency optimization—are important for making certain long-term effectivity and stability, for instance:
- Guarantee steady compliance with automated UCS configuration enforcement
- Enhance safety posture by way of automated patching and vulnerability remediation
- Scale assets dynamically with automated UCS server provisioning
- Improve system reliability with proactive monitoring and self-healing infrastructure
By leveraging automation and Ansible Automation Platform, organizations can simplify Day 2 operations throughout OpenShift Virtualization, NetApp storage, and Cisco UCS infrastructure, lowering guide efforts whereas bettering consistency, safety, and scalability.
Worth of extending Ansible Automation Platform help on Cisco UCS naked metallic
Cisco prospects can now streamline operations by eliminating the hypervisor layer to run cloud-native workloads. This reduces total infrastructure prices whereas enhancing useful resource utilization.
With OpenShift Virtualization, legacy purposes can function in digital machines (VMs) that may be created, managed, cloned, and live-migrated alongside containerized workloads on bare-metal Cisco UCS. This bare-metal structure offers direct {hardware} entry, optimizing efficiency for high-demand workloads like high-performance computing, AI, and different latency-sensitive purposes.
Ansible Validated Content material for Day-2 Operations
Ansible validated content material consists of Ansible roles that provide skilled steerage on performing particular operations and duties, enabling quick automation.
Pink Hat and Cisco are providing an preliminary set of Ansible Validated content material, supporting the CVD for FlexPod Datacenter with OpenShift Virtualization and Ansible Automation Platform, focusing on the next buyer use circumstances:
- Verifying energetic and inactive ports
- Modifying the profile of a brand new chassis
- Deploying a brand new server to a chassis with the proper profile settings
- Upgrading server and material interconnect firmware
- Including or altering IP addresses and VLANs on new or current servers
Wanting Ahead to What’s Subsequent
The brand new CVD introduced at Cisco Stay Amsterdam builds upon the success of Cisco built-in virtualization options with Cisco companions Pink Hat and Netapp. With the addition of validated automation content material and an automation administration platform to run this automation, we imagine this “next-level” CVD will assist prospects simplify operations and cut back threat.
The use circumstances focused by these bulletins are simply the place to begin. Between now and Cisco Stay San Diego, search for further Ansible Validated Content material focusing on new use circumstances in help of Cisco and Pink Hat prolonged partnership:
Configuration Administration & Drift Detection
Patching & Safety Updates
Useful resource Scaling & Efficiency Optimization
Monitoring & Alerting Automation
Backup & Catastrophe Restoration (DR) Automation
Coverage Compliance & Governance
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