2026-10-04 –, 155 Language: English
Ansible is often introduced as "just a configuration management tool," but in the daily life of an SRE team it becomes the backbone of everything from cluster upgrades and disaster recovery drills to security compliance hardening and automated incident remediation. In this talk, I'll share real use-cases from my work at Red Hat - managing OpenShift infrastructure at scale, building safety-gated CI/CD pipelines around playbooks, and integrating Ansible with AI-driven operations. Whether you're writing your first playbook or managing hundreds of roles, you'll walk away with practical patterns you can apply on Monday morning.
Managing production infrastructure at Red Hat means dealing with OpenShift cluster upgrades across multiple environments, running disaster recovery drills, hardening dozens of virtual machines for security compliance, and cleaning up cloud resources when automation goes sideways. Ansible is at the heart of all of these.
In this session, I'll walk through real scenarios from our SRE daily routine:
- Cluster lifecycle management - orchestrating OpenShift upgrades with progressive rollouts and rollback safety nets
- Disaster recovery automation - playbooks that verify backup integrity and restore pipelines in minutes, not hours
- Security compliance at scale - turning audit requirements into idempotent roles that bring VMs into compliance and keep them there
- Pipeline guardrails for Ansible itself — syntax checking, secret scanning, and dry-run gates that prevent Friday-evening outages
- The AI + Ansible frontier — how Event-Driven Ansible and AIOps shift remediation from reactive to proactive
I've been in the IT industry since 2006: GNU/Linux, Hybrid Cloud Environments, Continuous Integration and Delivery (CI/CD), Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Configuration as Code (CaC), containers and automation. I love Linux, concepts of Open Source, FOSS and vendor-agnostic solutions. Long-term open source and open standards advocate. Cloud-Native, Declarative resource management and GitOps advocate.
Experienced in the development, support, and debugging of IT projects at various levels of complexity, with roles as an SRE, DevOps, Cloud Platform Engineer, and Linux Engineer, using Scrum and Kanban Agile methodologies.