So, occasionally you'll hear us mention Ansible as the glue of all that is automation, all that is the DevOps tool ecosystem that we all work with. Well, we look at it this way, from Red Hat Ansible automation side, which really is the culmination of engine, tower, galaxy, Ansible vault, it's how do we take that tool set and take the community that comes from it and extend it out to the rest of the ecosystem. Why do you need more than Ansible?ĭylan: So, the first question. I've got a boring slide coming, but we'll get past that one pretty quickly.

A fair amount.ĭylan: I'll apologize in advance.

How many of you are actually Ansible users as well? All right. Sean: How many folks in the room today are using Terraform? Okay. So just kick back, enjoy the ride with us and hear us muttering amongst ourselves on how these work together. Sean: So today we're going to present to you our musings on the subject of how our tools work better together.ĭylan: A lot of you and a lot of our users pretty much like to peg us as an either/or story, and our goal here is to really tell you how these two tools, or how the HashiCorp suite of tools and the Ansible suite of tools are really very synergistic with each other. I'm out of this fair Bay Area of San Francisco. I'm based out of Austin, Texas.ĭylan: I'm Dylan Silva, the product manager for Ansible Engine or Ansible Core, or just Ansible project-whatever you want to call it. Sean: I'm Sean Carolan, solutions engineer with HashiCorp. Terraform uses provider plugins which enable interaction with the given cloud provider or a service, such as AWS, GCP, Azure or MySQL.Dylan Silva Principal product manager, Ansible Engine at Red Hat Its learning curve isn’t steep, and engineers can start using it relatively quickly. Terraform became a standard and tool of choice for many for Infrastructure as Code (IaC) these days.

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