Nasa Case Study

 

NASA

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and space research. NASA was established in 1958, succeeding the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics.

RED HAT ANSIBLE

Ansible is a radically simple IT automation engine that automates cloud provisioning, configuration management, application deployment, intra-service orchestration, and many other IT needs.

 Ansible is Designed for multi-tier deployments, Ansible models your IT infrastructure by describing how all of your systems inter-relate, rather than just managing one system at a time.

It uses no agents and no additional custom security infrastructure, so it’s easy to deploy, and most importantly, it uses a very simple language (YAML, in the form of Ansible Playbooks) that allow you to describe your automation jobs in a way that approaches plain English.

Now you know what is Ansible, let us take a look at the advantages of Ansible.

• Free: Ansible is an open-source tool so it is free to use.
• simple to set up and use: No coding skills are required to use Ansible’s playbooks.
• Powerful: Ansible lets you model even highly complex IT workflows.
• Flexible: You can orchestrate the entire application environment no matter where it’s deployed. You can also customize it based on your needs.
• Agentless: You don’t need to install any other software on systems you want to automate. You also don’t have to set up a separate management structure.
• Efficient: you don’t need to install any extra software, there’s more room for application resources on your server.

Nasa Ansible Case Study

NASA needed to move roughly 65 applications from a traditional hardware-based data center to a cloud-based environment for better agility and cost savings. The rapid timeline resulted in many applications being migrated ‘as-is’ to a cloud environment.

This created an environment spanning multiple virtual private clouds (VPCs) and AWS accounts that could not be easily managed. Even simple things, like ensuring every system administrator had access to every server, or simple patching, were extremely burdensome.

SOLUTION BY ANSIBLE

Use Ansible to manage and schedule the cloud environment

As a result of implementing the Ansible and Ansible Tower, NASA is better equipped to manage its AWS environment. Tower allowed NASA to provide better operations and security to its clients. It has also increased efficiency as a team. By the numbers:

• Updating nasa.gov Website went from over 1 hour to under 5 minutes.
• Patching updates reduced from a multi-day process to 45 minutes.
• Achieving near real-time RAM and disk monitoring (accomplished without agents)
• Provisioning OS Accounts across the entire environment in under 10 minutes
• Baselining standard AMIs went from 1 hour of manual configuration to becoming an invisible and seamless background process
• Application stack set up from 1–2 hours to under 10 minutes per stack

Conclusion:

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform helps companies to scale IT automation, manage complex deployments, and govern automation. It allows companies to centralize and control their infrastructure with a visual dashboard, role-based access control, playbooks, and analytics to reduce operational complexity.

Ansible Automation platforms have clear syntax and have a task-based nature makes it possible to orchestrate server configuration and management, and application deployments tasks and ensure tasks happen when they need to and in the right order.

With the right automation solution, companies can deploy new applications and give services faster and companies can manage infrastructure more efficiently, and ultimately companies see an increase in application development productivity and profit.

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