Automated Deployment in Action: A Case Study on IT infrastructure deployment with Ansible Playbooks
Sriramaraju Sagi · Journal of Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning and Data Science · 2023
This study delves into how using Infrastructure automation solutions, with playbooks can revolutionize datacenter operations.By combining Cisco Unified Computing Systems along with NetApp storage systems, the research showcases an improvement in IT efficiency and operational accuracy.The implementation of customized playbooks for setup leads to a shift towards fully automated configurations of computer, networking, storage and hypervisor layers following industry best practices identified during testing and validation phases.The findings highlight the effectiveness of automation in reducing times from hours to minutes speeding up service delivery and enabling IT staff to focus on strategic initiatives.Automation is applied throughout both infrastructure and application layers to ensure error deployment processes.An interesting discovery is the ability to reuse code/roles within the automation package for execution of tasks boosting operational efficiency and maintaining consistency, across deployments.