live from Atlanta Georgia it's the tube covering ansible fest 2019 brought to you by Red Hat hello everyone welcome to the queue we are broadcasting live here in Atlanta Georgia I'm John force too many men my co-host the cubes coverage of Red Hat ansible Fest this is probably one of the hottest topic areas that we've been seeing in Enterprise tech emerging along with observability automation and observability is the key topics here automation is the theme stew ansible just finished their keynote keynote analysis general availability of their new platform the ansible automation platform is the big news this is a big I mean it seems nuanced for the general tech practitioner out there what's ansible doing why we here we saw the rise of network management turned into observability as the hottest category in the cloud cloud 2.0 companies going public a lot of M&A activity and observability is data-driven automations this other category that is just exploding and growth and change huge impact to all industries and it's coming from the infrastructure scale side where the blocking and tackling of DevOps has been this is the focus of ansible and their show automation for all your analysis of the keynote what's the most important thing going on here yes so John as you said automation is a super hot topic you know I was just at the New Relic show talking about observability last week we've got the Pedro Duty show also going on this week the the automation is so critical we know that IT can't keep up with things if they can't automate it and it's not just replacing some scripting I loved in the keynote they talked about strategically thinking about automation we've been watching the RP a companies talking about automation so there's lots of different automation there's the right way to do it and another thing angle John that we love covering is you know what's going on with open source you were just at the open core summit in San Francisco the Red Hat team very clear open source is not their business model it is they use open source and everything that Red Hat does is a hundred percent open source and that was core and key to what ansible was and how its created this isn't a product pitch here it's a community you know it's John this is the six most active you know repository in github so out of over a hundred million repositories out there the six most active so that tells you that this is being used by the community it's not a couple of companies using this but it's a broad ecosystem we hear Microsoft and Cisco f5 lots of companies that are contributing as well as just all of the end users we of JPMorgan in the keynote this morning so a lot of participation there but you know it is building out that suite with the platform that you talked about and we're gonna spend a lot of time in the next few days understanding this maturation and growth yeah the automation platform that they announced that's the big news the general availability of their automation platform and stew the word they're using here is scale okay and this is something that you brought up to open core summit which I attended last week was the inaugural conference a lot of controversy and this is a generational shift we are seeing in the midst of our own eyes right in front of us on the ground floor of a shift in open source community how the platform of open source is evolving what Amazon now azure and Google and the others are doing is they're showing that scale has changed the game in how open-source is going to not only grow and evolve but shape application developers and the reason why ansible is so important right now in this conference is that we all know that when you stand up stuff infrastructure you've got to configure the hell out of it DevOps has always been infrastructure is code and as more stuff gets scaled up as more stuff gets provision as more stuff gets built and created the management and the controlling of the configurations this has been a real hot spot this has been an opportunity and a problem so you know everyone who's here they're they're active because you know what this is a major pain point this is a problem area that's an opportunity to take what is a blocking and tackling operational role configurating standing up infrastructure enabling applications and making it a competitive advantage this is why the game is changing starting to see platforms not tools your analysis are they positioned was this keynote successful John and I really liked rut Robin Bergeron came out and talked about the key principles of what antal is done its simplicity its modularity and it's learning from open source this project was only started in 2012 so one of the things I always look at is in the old days you wanted you know to have that experience there's no compression algorithm for experience today if I could start from day one today and build with the latest tools you know heavily using DevOps understanding all of the experience that's happened in open source we can move forward so from 2012 to 2015 Red Hat you know acquired ansible to today in 2019 they're making huge growth and helping companies really leverage and mature their IT processes and move towards you know true business innovation with leveraging automation dude this is not and again this is not for the faint of heart either again these are Rockstar DevOps infrastructure folks who are evolving in taking either network and or infrastructure development to enable and software abstraction layer for applications and this not it's not a joke either I mean got some big names up on stage of just one tweet I want to call out and get your reaction to JP Morgan on his presentation the exact there he was tweet came out from Christopher Festa 500 developers are working to automate business processes leading to among other benefits ninety-eight percent improvement in recovery times what used to take six to eight hours to recover now takes two to five minutes Christopher Festa student so John that's what we want is how can we take these things that took you know hours and I had to go through this ticketing process and make that change what I loved of what Chris from JP Morgan said is he brought us inside he said look to make this change it took us a year of sorting through the security the cyber the the control processes we understand there's not just you know oh hey let's sprinkle a little DevOps on everything and it's wonderful we need to get you know buy-in from the team it you know and it can spread between groups and you know change that culture it's something that you know we've tracked in Red Hat for years and all of these environments this something that does require commitment because it's not just John taking oh I scripted something and and and that's good we need to be able to really look at these changes because automation if we just automate a bad process that's not gonna help our business we really need to make sure we understand what we're automating the business value and and what is going are going to be the ramification to what we're doing well one of the things I want to share with folks watching is some research that we did at Silk'n angle the cube and wiki bond it's part of our cube insights do I know you were part of this we talked to a bunch of practitioners and customers and dozens of our of our community members and we found that observability we've just pointed out has been you know explosive category that automation has been identified and we're putting a stake in the ground right here in the cube as one of the next big sectors that will rise up as a small little white space will become a massive market automation you watch that cloud 2.0 sector called automation why the reasoning was this and here's the results of our of our survey automation is quickly becoming a critical foundational element of the network as enterprises focus on multi cloud network being infrastructure servers and storage a multi cloud rapid application development and deployment software-defined everything's happening pretty much we've been covering that on the cube and most enterprises are just crap lling with this concept and see opportunities the benefits that people see in automation as we've discovered still in the following one focused on focused efforts for better results efficiency security is a top driver on all these things because you got to have security built into the software and then automation is creating job satisfaction for these guys I mean they've been doing this is mundane tasks being automated way so people are happier so job satisfaction and finally this is an opportunity to rescale do these are the key bullet points that we found in talking to our serve our community your reaction to those those results yeah John I love that we know ultimately when we want to be able to provide not only better value to my ultimate end user but I need to look internal as you said John you know how can i you know retool some of my sales force and get them engaged and if you want to hire the Millennials they want a bit just and not be doing the drudgery they want to do something where they feel that they are making a difference and you know you laid out a lot of good reasons why it would help and why people would want to get involved John you know the government I've talked to a number of government agencies when they talk about you know we changed that 40-year old process and now we're doing things faster and better and that means I can really hire that next generation of workforce because otherwise I wouldn't be able to hire them to just do things the old way this is about cloud 2 point and this is about modernization and you mention open source open core summit that I think is a tell sign that open source is changing the communities are changing this is gonna be a massive wave again we've been chronicling this cloud 2 point of the week we coined that term we're trying to identify those key points obviously observability automation but look at the end of the day you got to have a focused effort to make the job go better you heard JP Morgan pointing out minutes versus hours this is the benefits of infrastructure as code in the end of the day employee satisfaction the people that you want to hire to re-skill that can be redeployed into new roles analytics math quantitative analysis versus the mundane tasks automation is going to impact all aspects of the stack so final questions do what are you expecting for the next two days we're gonna be here for two days what do you expect to hear from our guests yeah so John one of the things I'm going to really look at is as you mentioned infrastructure is that where this all started so you know how do I easy to play a VM you know ansible is there you know VMware I've already talked to a number of people in the virtualization community they love and embrace ansible we saw Microsoft up on stage loving embrace it as we move towards micro service architectures containerization and all of these cloud native deployments you know how is ansible in this community doing where the stumbling blocks to be honest from what I hear John coming into this anta Buhl's been doing well Red Hat has helped them grow even more and the expectation is that IBM will help proliferate this in even further the traditional competitors to ansible you think about the chef's in puppet to the world have been struggling with that cloud native world John I know I see ansible when I go to the cloud shows and I hear customers talking about it so ansible seems to be making that transition towards cloud native well but other threats in the cloud native world you know if I've said you know that when I when I go to the server lists you know conference I I don't I have not yet heard you know where this fits into the environment so we always know that that next generation and technology you know how will you know this automation move forward as Red Hat starts to get much more proliferating into major enterprises with IBM which will take their extend their lead even further in the enterprise it's an opportunity for ansible and the community angle is interesting I saw our tweets don't get your community your angle real quick on this I saw a tweet from NetApp their tagline at their booth is simplify automate and orchestrate sounds like they're leading into the kubernetes world containers you got to start thinking about software abstractions and this is the st. the you know provisioning hardware anymore whole new ballgame your assessment of an Sable's community presence mentioned I was a tweet from Red Hat I mean NetApp what's your take on the community angle here John it's all about community we the github stats speak for themselves this is very much a community invent you know kudos to the team here a lot on the diversity inclusion effort so really pushing those things forward John something we always notice at the tech shows the ratio of you know gender is way to more diverse at an event like this we know we see it in the developer communities that there was more diversity in there so by the way when they took over this hotel all of the bathrooms are I believe it's you know it's gender-neutral so you can use whatever bathroom yeah you know you you want there let's make sure I'm using the right pronoun when I'm going saying a lot of people Stu thanks for commentary keynote analysis I'm John first dude minimun breaking down why we are here why ansible why is automation important we believe automation will be a killer category we want to see a lot of growth here and again the impact is with machine learning and AI this is where it all starts automating the data the technology and the configuration is going to empower the next generation modern enterprise more live coverage from ansible fests after this short break

Jeff Rick here with the cube we're in downtown San Francisco at the OSI soft Thai world 2018 they've been doing it for over 15 years is about 3,000 people here from all types of industries using this software solution and the data that comes out of it to basically find in efficiencies it is about solving some [Music] we started in San Francisco in 1990 we had 68 of our closest friends and it's just been an amazing journey some new players have grabbed onto it but we've been doing this for 30 years and you know our goal is to collect operational data wherever it exists reliably and securely persist that and deliver it to whoever or whatever needs it whether it's human or physical asset everyone has the data everyone knows it's not being utilized and they're saying where can I get my next advantage from because it is a competitive advantage the world has changed for most of our energy companies because their business models are under attack and so they are forced to transform digital transformation and energy so we think obviously every nua Buhl's right is growing like crazy and and the wind turbines are all over all over the place what are some of the other ways that they're really kind of under fire you have changing of regulation that takes place so they need to accommodate that in very short notice but you also have a very interactive environment where it used to be one way we're now two way and now you have communication coming from all of its participants in the market we're using PI as a data hub or like a bus a data bus essentially so for them it's good because we're saying look we're gonna have this one point of you know point-to-point system instead of having all of these individuals we're gonna connect to one system which will be easier for them to manage and maintain and will instruct staff to go to PI to get the data so that's a selling point for IT right more secure that's more manageable you know cybersecurity is gonna be forefront everybody's mind right how do we secure all this data so that our customers can really trust that their IP is being protected as everybody shares this data right sometimes companies by companies who owns that data so data ownership is going to be critical and these are the things that internally we are already trying to you know build solutions for one of the beautiful things about this conferences we see our partners we see our customers we see hundreds and thousands of different technologies and applications built around this disinformation that hasn't changed customers are demanding specific types of energy you may have customers at what clean energy they may want the cheapest they may want hydro so that interaction real-time is the world that we are in right now information which initiative is not connected can now be connected you have now full visibility into your entire systems and you can actually be able to control things it's really in any environment right businesses are gonna get more benefits it's not about sensors it's not about data collection is about business benefits the bottom line right the ability to see it and get insights with it does it make sense to put something new just to get another two percent maybe not but what about if you can now predict not just real time a predict what's gonna happen six hours 12 hours two days a week ahead of time that's entirely brand new and the problem is looking at your data you have today there's just way too much data for you to humanly possibly do that if it takes me more time to do the analysis in the spreadsheet right or a kind of paper write to impact the outcome of the batch of mine I do it but against modern analytics hey I can get the insight quickly and I can make a change to what I'm doing and I or prevent something from happening and now it's worth doing with the rise of intelligent machines and artificial intelligence as you know other machines gonna take over the world but really consistency ly we hear it's really humans making better decisions with data that's provided by the machines and systems we're just automating your process make it better so that you could do more cool or better things so that you've actually analyzed the data set of inputting data right so that you can actually solve problems versus spending all your time trying to you know identify the data and collect information you take that natural intelligence that people have always had pushing that into some of those advanced tools doing what they couldn't do before and that's what's really exciting overlay some of these new technologies that are coming from you know the giants of you know Google and Amazon is these we could take advantage of a lot of those tools with the data we've collected for 30 years that really drive outcomes of course the energy efficiency of all the machines are getting better and better but at some point you know it needs to be optimized right and that's where the software components it removed it of the human-in-the-loop really to optimize that that heats distribution and remove one of the next things always the next thing and that's blockchain the exchange of value would in you know a blockchain network also makes the the monetization of data very possible we have you know some assumptions of where blockchain might make sense to us as a company but especially to our customers so this year we really want to validate some of those assumptions digital transformation is more cultural transformation you know we all have these cool gadgets and a lot of these we we use it in our daily lives but how we can use these effectively in the mining world things like in iPads wireless technology and bring that in as I mentioned before on the table of the operator so that they are empowered now right now other departments in the city one it Public Works is asking for the city manager's office so it's really picking up you know some good buzz right we're kind of working our way down discussion of smart cities Hawks we don't have to worry about it we got it right on day one it's updatable and we know that the right solution for one customer and the right data is not necessarily the right data for the next customer right so we're not going to make the assumptions that we have it all figured out we're just trying to design the solution so that it's flexible enough to allow customers to do whatever they need to do if you just show them a white paper it's hard for them to say right this is what I need right you see once you see a suit to say I don't like that's high I don't like that shirt but something close yeah but something like that it's one thing to have scale in a data center it's another thing to have scale across the globe and this is where PI excels the idea doesn't have to generate in your industry could generate somewhere else then you can bring it back and that's what this conference really helps are our customers do is share those successful right people have been doing pilots until now maybe or files up to now are actually they've actually stepped in and we're seeing real purchase orders for real production applications and is happening in every industry so much easier right to get those efficiencies versus rip and replace or leave the data where it is that you're into you involve you are watching the cube from OSI soft hi world 2018 in downtown San Francisco [Music]