Brad Sollar is a Sr. Solutions Architect at Red Hat where he works primarily with OpenShift & Ansible, and is a fan of all kinds of automation. Before joining Red Hat Brad worked at MITRE, had his own company, and did a lot of running in the Army. In his spare time, he sells a lot of credit spreads and stays theta positive.

ABSTRACT:
What if you could maintain your configurations worldwide for all your software, systems, and network devices automatically in a secure and manageable way Ansible can take traditional manual tasks that used to take hours or days and automate them in minutes through simple playbooks. Network devices and systems can now be included in an organization’s overall automation strategy for a holistic approach to application workload management. The new paradigm is AUTOMATION. In this talk, we will talk about how we can automate everything in the enterprise including all the network routers and switches!