by Dan Iverson

#71 – DevOps and Ansible w/ Jason Gilfoil and Eric Bolinger

This week we podcast from the Alliance 2017 Conference in Las Vegas. Jason Gilfoil and Eric Bolinger join us to talk about DevOps and Ansible with PeopleSoft. We talk about application orchestration, mixing Ansible and Puppet, customizing the DPK and more.

Show Notes

  • Introducing Jason Gilfoil @ 1:30
  • Introducing Eric Bolinger @ 2:45
  • What is Ansible? @ 3:30
  • What is Orchestration? @ 8:00
  • Differences between Puppet and Ansible @ 12:00
  • Puppet Master, Hiera Hash and the DPK @ 15:15
  • Managing infrastructure code with Git @ 20:45
  • Adjusting to a DevOps culture @ 27:00
  • Getting automation started in your organization @ 30:30
  • Calculating Time Saving for Automation @ 35:30
  • Choosing an automation tool @ 41:30
  • Docker @ 43:00
  • Personal Development Environments @ 45:45
  • Starting to think “cloud” @ 50:00
by Dan Iverson

#38 – Automation and more w/ Nate Werner

This week we interview Nate Werner. Nate talks about many of the unique solutions he created to make this PeopleSoft environments secure, standardized and automated. We cover a lot of topics and Nate shows why he is a top-notch PS Admin!

We want to make this podcast part of the community discussion on PeopleSoft administration. If you have comments, feedback, or topics you’d like us to talk about, we want to hear from you! You can email us at podcast@psadmin.io, tweet us at @psa_io, or use the Twitter hashtag #psadminpodcast.

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Show Notes

  • Supporting CS and Integration Hub setup @ 3:00
  • Shibboleth and Oracle Traffic Director @ 7:30
  • Sign-in As @ 10:30
  • Experience with GH ERP Firewall @ 12:30
  • 2 Factor Auth @ 14:30
  • Ansible Automation and Standardization @ 18:15
  • Automating PeopleSoft Image Deployment @ 26:00
  • Stacking Application Architecture @ 30:00
  • Supporting Students v. Business Users @ 35:00
  • Supporting Mobile and Branding @ 37:00
  • Database Consolidation @ 38:45
  • Managing Releases and Downtime @ 43:30
  • Managing Files without Server Access @ 47:00
  • Everything as a Share/Mount @ 48:45
  • Smart Automation @ 56:00
  • Learning Puppet/Embracing DevOps @ 58:15