Platform Engineering Ansible Accelerator

The Situation

Many IT shops are falling behind on providing DevOps tooling for their developer teams. As such, developers are downloading multiple containers and K8s packages, building shadow DevOps tool chains and creating containers of questionable origins. The main complaint is that IT service bureaus can’t deploy infrastructure fast enough to meet developer demands.

Platform Engineering Accelerator provides a self-service portal via ServiceNow that enables IT teams to offer secure and compliant development services. This enables developers to order up a fully integrated and automated developer environment with the required software and DevOps tooling preconfigured, allowing a developer to go from zero to coding within 10 minutes of ordering.

Platform Engineering Ansible Accelerator Includes:

Stone Door Group Platform Engineering Ansible Accelerator is a services offering that integrates ServiceNow to Ansible to OpenShift and enables IT administrators to provide self-service development services to developers. The solution bundles ServiceNow, Ansible, OpenShift, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux SKUs along with Stone Door Group services and Stone Door Group written Playbooks and configurations to enable the solution.

  • Install OpenShift and Ansible in a highly available configuration

  • Integrate ServiceNow to Ansible to OpenShift APIs

  • Develop a ServiceNow catalog offering that provides a developer with:

    • Container based build environment with correct permissions

    • Preinstalled development tools

    • Cloned Git (or similar) repo

    • Integrated build and deploy pipelines

    • Logins and URLs to development namespaces 

Business Outcomes:

  • Enable new hire developers to start coding on company applications within minutes.

  • Satisfy regulatory and security requirements with managed and accountable DevOps tooling, container software supply chain, and Kubernetes orchestration.

  • Decrease operating costs and time to market through automated application delivery, reclamation and reallocation of SysOps resources.

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