Splunk user group - automating Splunk with Ansible
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The document discusses automating Splunk configuration using Ansible, showcasing several demos including configuration storage and managing forwarders. It emphasizes the need for automation as infrastructure scales and provides links to resources for getting started with Ansible. The author's background and additional materials such as a GitHub repository for demos are also mentioned.
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Log-Based Anomaly Detection: Enhancing System Reliability with Machine LearningMohammed BEKKOUCHESplunk user group - automating Splunk with Ansible
- 2. Topics • Which tool? • Demo: Configuration storage • Demo: Enabling forwarding • Demo: Installing and managing forwarders • Demo: Maintaining apps
- 3. About Me • Linux tinkerer since 1992 • Automating stuff since 1993 • “Done time” in small organisations through to Investment Banks • I’m lazy
- 4. –Albert Einstein “Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler”
- 6. Ansible • Agent less • SSH for transport • Common language - YAML • Easy to learn quickly
- 7. Learn More • Slides from DevOps Cardif (Puppet vs Chef vs Ansible) • Blog post I wrote last year • Splunk's recent blog on Splunk + Ansible • Get started with Ansible
- 9. El Reg: "Are your servers PETS or CATTLE?"
- 10. (The Splunk GUI is fine for managing a small estate)
- 11. (But as you get larger, really you need more help: automation)
- 12. Demos Github repo used to build the demos: http://github.com/phips/splunkbox/tree/jldemo