Automation examples

Refueling, configuring and updating laptops, desktops (legacy and UEFI BIOS) and VMs with RHEL7 and 8 using Satellite 6 and Puppet 5

Installation and configuration of Icinga2 server and clients, with alarms in Jira.

 Automated initial installation and initial configuration of Red Hat Identity Management and FreeIPA using. Ansible and third-party Ansible roles and Ansible modules

Automated management of all content in Red Hat Identity Management and FreeIPA using. Ansible and third-party Ansible roles and Ansible modules

Automated issuance and re-issuance of X.509 certificates from PKI in IdM / IPA for HTTPS using. Ansible and Certmonger

Automated issuance of Kerberos keytabs from IdM / IPA for host, HTTPS, NFS and CIFS using. Ansible

Automated initial installation and initial configuration of Red Hat Satellite 6 and Foreman w / Katello using. Ansible and third-party Ansible roles and Ansible modules

Automated administration of all content in Red Hat Satellite 6 and Foreman w / Katello using. Ansible and third-party Ansible roles and Ansible modules

Automated provisioning of virtual machines on VMware using Ansible and Satellite 6 / Foreman w / Katello based on VMware Template image in VMware

Automated deployment of the most business-critical applications in production with Ansible, based on legacy method and packaging (rpm package) of the application

Automated administration of internal software repos on Satellite 6 and Foreman w / Katello, using Ansible

Automated GPG signing of RPM packages, to be uploaded in software repo on Satellite 6 and Foreman w / Katello

Automated installation and basic configuration of Jira with associated automated installation and configuration of PostgreSQL database, NGINX reverse proxy w / SSL termination

Automated password database based on passports, and use of GPG keys from Yubikeys

Automated secrecy management in Ansible Vault, where Ansible Vault keyphrase has been stored GPG-encrypted in a file checked in git-repo

Automated encryption of Ansible Vault keyphrase file, with different GPG public key compilation

Automated Ansible Vault rekey of Ansible Vault encrypted files, with method that should be run regularly when changing teams or for other needs

Re-implemented configuration management of the most business-critical applications with Puppet 4 and using R10K, Hiera 5, Hiera eyaml, Foreman as ENC and appropriate setup, based on previous implementation performed with Puppet 3 (which was legacy at the time of execution in 2017)

Automated installation and basic configuration of GitLab with Ansible

Automated installation and configuration of Barman with Puppet for automated backup of PostgreSQL database, with the possibility of Point In Time Recovery (PITR) with low RPO and RTO

Automated installation and configuration of Varnish HTTP Cache with Puppet, with managed VCL

Automated installation and configuration of Java application server Wildfly 10 with company-specific customization using Puppet 4

Automated configuration of authentication solution with OpenID Connect to the ID port using Apache module mod_auth_openidc using Puppet

Automatic creation of system accounts in Cyberark PAM system

Automated Elastic stack server and agents (beats)

Automated Dogtag certificate server with creating SSL certificates on machine based on configuration in inventory and submission and approval of the certificates in Dogtag

Automated deployment of various docker containers based on configuration in inventory

Automated user management in AD (Created users with specific settings and sent out email to that user with a login password).

Automated full configuration of Gitlab and Installation 

Automated full configuration of Pulp

Automated VMware template build with Hashicorp Packer 

Automated configuration on VMware vSphere

Automated installation and full configuration of Ansible Automation Platform

VDI management server setup with git + repos, vagrant, ssh, pass integration for ssh keys and access control

Automated package installation and configuration of many different products 

Automated system check against CIS benchmarks and configuration of systems according to CIS recommendations

Gitlab workflow via CLI and API to cover several different needs that take too long via GUI

Hashicorp Vault node deployment via Terraform, Packer and Ansible in combination 

Hashicorp Consul node deployment via Terraform, Packer and Ansible in combination

Service setup in Azure Functions to generate Hostnames including filter and name patterns

Host deployment and management in Azure Cloud via Ansible Automation Platform 

Host management via Chef 

Testing of Software packages before deployment in Vagrant 

Using VMware templates instead of manually setting up nodes in VMware

Machine management and integration with Red Hat Satellite