Stream: New Technologies
Time: 10:00 - 10:45
Terraform from HashiCorp is popular in system administration circles as a tool which facilitates "infrastructure-as-code", often as part of a development team's CI/CD environment. Ansible is a popular Open Source system management framework that can be used to manage a huge array of different types of equipment, from network switches to storage subsystems to operating systems. This session will cover some of the "good, bad, and ugly" of using Ansible and Terraform to manage z/VM systems, the guests that run on them, and the partitions and machines on which they run.
There is currently no attachment for Practical z/VM Automation using Terraform and friends
Vic Cross works as a Senior Technical Specialist in the global IBM Linux on Z and LinuxONE Sales Team. He has 30 years’ experience in IBM zSystems, most of which has been working with Linux and z/VM. His IBM career spans over 20 years in Systems, Lab Services, and Strategic Outsourcing. Vic’s mainframe career started as an SNA networking specialist implementing VTAM and NCP. He is the author of several IBM Redbooks publications, spanning the length of IBM’s support of Linux on zSystems. Vic holds a Bachelor of Applied Science (Computing) from the Queensland University of Technology, and lives in Redland (near Brisbane) in Australia.
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