Automation Strategies: Real-World Experiences from F5 and
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Describes moving from manual, imperative work to declarative automation and shows a concrete win: saving full router and switch backups that once required 20 engineers down to a single Ansible playbook run completed in about an hour. Recommends Ansible playbook for configuration and Terraform for infrastructure, using both together and integrating with CI/CD pipelines. Demonstrates AI as an augmentation: ChatGPT stalls but Claude solved it in 5 minutes to produce a working iRule. Emphasizes starting with small, repeatable pain points.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Welcome
- 1:03Automation foundations
- 2:27Manual to declarative
- 4:33Ansible Terraform benefits
- 5:59CI/CD and everything as code
- 6:40Resistance to automation
- 8:03AI augments engineers
- 9:30AI use cases
- 11:14AI governance and security
- 12:17Trust with management
- 13:01Low-hanging fruit
- 13:43Simple and scalable
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