Ottavia Balducci
Dr. Ottavia Balducci is an IT consultant at ATIX AG in Garching bei München. As an expert in Ansible, AWX, and Ansible Automation Platform, she supports customers in automating configuration management. She regularly offers workshops, training courses, and webinars on these topics.
Sessions
Ansible has become indispensable for modern configuration management. Once you start writing Ansible code, the first thing that you should do is to put it under version control. From there, a whole new world of automation possibilities through CI/CD pipelines opens up.
In this session, we will explore how to leverage CI/CD pipelines to supercharge your Ansible repositories. Using GitLab CI/CD as the primary example, we will walk through several real-life scenarios, each illustrated with a live demo. We will start with the simple yet impactful step of adding automatic linting. We will then move on to more advanced use cases such as automatically building collections and execution environments, generating CHANGELOGs with antsibull-changelog, and performing automated testing with Molecule.
Whether you are just starting with Ansible or already managing complex automation frameworks, this talk will offer practical examples and ideas to take your Ansible code management to the next level.