Bringing Modern Automation to The Industrial Edge
summary
Ansible now talks to PLCs using the comminity.cip collection to read/write tags and run idempotent playbooks; a demo uses a Rockwell Allen Bradley PLC in a Pelican case to spin a drive, generate a sine wave and toggle an LED while producing auditable facts. Ansible Automation Platform adds an automation mesh that supports pull-only zones to respect the Purdue model, one-firewall-rule reach, and scale to tens of thousands of devices. OSBuild, RPM OSTree and MicroShift handle atomic image builds, rollouts and rollbacks for edge nodes.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Industrial edge automation intro
- 1:03Edge computing challenges
- 3:07Bridging IT and OT
- 5:35Industrial edge business challenges
- 9:52What is Ansible
- 11:55Automating PLCs with Ansible
- 13:21Manual PLC management obsolete
- 14:44Ansible mesh for Purdue model
- 16:54Live demo: Ansible controls PLC
- 19:45Device edge with RPM OS
- 22:13Kubernetes at the edge with Microshift
- 23:20Automation content flow
- 25:50Q&A
- 33:02Final Q&A and closing remarks
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