Attended the event held at Renaissance Dallas at Plano Legacy West Hotel, 6007 Legacy Dr, Plano, TX.

Ansible Automation Dallas 2026

Building a future-proof foundation with multimode automation ()

  • AIOps: The use AI, machine learning (ML), and big data to automate, monitor, and enhance IT infrastructure management

  • multimode (e.g. infras for on-prem or public/private cloud..) is required for automation as well

Multimode in Automation

  • Task-based
    • 80% of current workloads
    • ‘deterministic’ automation
    • “who approved this? or audit this?” - security, compliance perspectives.
  • Event-driven
    • 15% of current workloads and growing
    • w/o human intervention, but still human-in-the-loop
  • Agent-driven
    • 5% of current workloads and growing
    • explores problems with LLM-powered reasoning, then makes the recommendation

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P - the wrongly chosen automation mode could be the important resource leakage

AAP Roadmap: what’s new and what’s coming - A pragmatic guide for practitioners (Scott Harrell)

AAP: Ansible Automation Platform

Automate Today, Power Tomorrow: The Ansible Blueprint for AI Infrastructure (Tom simmons - redhat, Ramya Korada - cisco, Richard MArshall - Insight Networking center of excellence, Aaron Davis - RedHat)

Q. What is the most required ones from customers for automation and what Ansible give them for it?

  • security, network, consistency, well-management, speed/scale regardless of the environment (on-prem, cloud, edge)

Q. Despite the fact that many enterprises say the importance of building AI, why they struggle with it?

  • collect data from many different sources - ansible makes the unified and consistent languages for it.
  • role management?

Advancing AI with Intel (William Fowler - Intel)

  • Gaudi 3 - AI Inference processor

Operationalizing AIOps: Bridging the Gap between Splunk and Ansible (Andy Garret, Subarno Mukherjee)

  • Splunk

  • focused on Event-driven automation

Building a Bulletproof Automation Foundation: Scaling Resilience with Ansible and EDB Postgres (Chad Ferman, Anil Kumar)

EDB: Enterprise DB

Introduction to AI-Driven Ansible Automation (Amy Krieger, Joe Brown, Sean Anderson, Zachary LeBlanc)

  • Infrastructure Readness - whether the infrastructure is ready for AI-driven automation

AIOps use cases with Ansible

  • Self-healing Infrastructure
  • Support and incident ticket enrichment
  • Cost + resource optimization

Lab - Self-healing automation workflow

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  • Ansible Automation Platform
  • Gitea
  • Mattermost

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