Join August Schell and Red Hat to find out how you can address agency missions and strategic goals through IT management, modernization, and automation. This interactive workshop led by Red Hat Solutions Architect – Simon Sekidde -- will grant you access into Red Hat’s virtual lab where you’ll learn how to:

  • Reduce redundancy and risk, increase efficiency, and scale flexibly.
  • Utilize Ansible’s agentless nature, making it ideal for high-security and high-performance environments.
  • Streamline the process of building, testing, deploying, operating, and monitoring while gaining continuous feedback and maintaining a secure environment.
  • Support existing enterprise applications and deliver new applications by accelerating development, delivery, and support cycles.
  • Leverage Red Hat OpenShift and Ansible on any kind of infrastructure – on-premise, private, public, and hybrid clouds.

Register now for access to the IT Modernization Workshop hosted by August Schell and Red Hat at the Fort Belvoir USO on Wednesday, August 22, 2018.

Please note that all attendees must come with a laptop with admin rights and the ability to SSH to a lab environment hosted in a public cloud.

Agenda:

9:00 AM     |    What is Ansible and The Ansible Way, Demo: Installing Ansible
9:30 AM     |    How Ansible Works and its Key Components, Demo: Ad-Hoc Commands
10:45 AM   |    BREAK
11:00 AM   |    Demo: A Simple Playbook Run
12:00 PM   |    LUNCH
1:00 PM     |    Demo: A More Practical Playbook
1:30 PM     |    What is Ansible Tower, Demo: Installing Ansible Tower
2:30 PM     |    Demo: Ansible Tower Basic Setup and Job Run
3:00 PM     |    Demo: Ansible Tower Dynamic Inventory

Special Instructions:

Accessing Fort Belvoir: Please be advised that non-government personnel visiting Fort Belvoir must use the Tulley Gate entrance and register for a daily pass in the visitor center.

Electronic Check-In: Please arrive no later than 08:50h to the Fort Belvoir USO in order to properly sign in to the facility using the electronic check-in kiosk. You will also need to provide a government-issued ID card. Active duty attendees will be able to check-in via USO mobile app and present their CAC to the desk attendant.

Parking: Free parking is available directly in front and directly behind the USO facility. Overflow parking is available in The Meadows Garage adjacent to Fort Belvoir Community Hospital.

Lunch Meet and Greet: Meet and mingle with representatives from complementary vendors like Splunk, F5, and Rubrik to find out how they can improve security, agility, and establish a foundation for cloud infrastructure in conjunction with Red Hat.