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AnsibleFest
Name	AnsibleFest
Status	Active
Genre	Technology conference
Frequency	Annual
Location	Various (United States, Europe, Asia)
First	2013
Organizer	Red Hat

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AnsibleFest AnsibleFest is an annual conference focused on automation, orchestration, and IT infrastructure, organized by Red Hat and attended by practitioners from IBM, VMware, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, and Oracle Corporation. The event draws professionals from Netflix, Spotify, LinkedIn, GitHub, Atlassian, and Salesforce alongside contributors from open-source projects such as Ansible, Linux Foundation, OpenStack Foundation, Cloud Native Computing Foundation, and Kubernetes. Speakers and attendees include engineers, architects, and executives from Capital One, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, ING Group, and Wells Fargo.

Overview

AnsibleFest showcases automation solutions from vendors and communities including Red Hat, Ansible, RHEL, CentOS, Fedora Project, Debian Project, and Ubuntu. Sessions explore integrations with cloud providers like Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, IBM Cloud, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure as well as with platforms such as Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker, Cloud Foundry, and HashiCorp Consul. The conference highlights tools and projects including Terraform, Puppet, Chef (software)}, SaltStack, Jenkins, GitLab, CircleCI, and Travis CI. Attendees often represent enterprises like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snap Inc., Pinterest, and TikTok.

The conference traces its origins to community gatherings around the Ansible project and early adopters from companies such as Rackspace, Red Hat, Canonical, Puppet Labs, and Chef Software. Early events featured contributors from Michael DeHaan, Jeff Geerling, Corey Quinn, Kelsey Hightower, and Bridget Kromhout alongside representatives of institutions like NASA, European Space Agency, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and CERN. As Ansible's adoption grew, speakers from Accenture, Deloitte, PwC, Ernst & Young, Capgemini, and McKinsey & Company began presenting case studies. The conference expanded geographically with editions in San Francisco, New York City, London, Berlin, Amsterdam, Singapore, and Sydney.

Programming typically includes keynote addresses, technical sessions, hands-on workshops, breakout sessions, and lightning talks featuring professionals from Red Hat, AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, VMware, and HashiCorp. Workshops often use labs contributed by communities including CNCF, OpenStack, Kubernetes, Istio, and Envoy (software), with demonstrations leveraging Ansible Tower, AWX Project, Ansible Galaxy, Galaxy Project, Molecule (software), and Ansible Lint. Community-driven activities include contributor summits, meetups coordinated with Linux Foundation events, certification exams from Red Hat Certified Engineer programs, and partner pavilions from Cisco Systems, Juniper Networks, Arista Networks, F5 Networks, and Palo Alto Networks.

Tracks cover subjects like automation for cloud-native applications, infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, security automation, and compliance automation with speakers from Snyk, Aqua Security, Palo Alto Networks, Qualys, and Tenable. Sessions address integrations with observability and monitoring platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, New Relic, and Elastic (company); logging stacks like ELK Stack and Fluentd; and service mesh technologies including Istio, Linkerd, and Consul Connect. Other tracks include configuration management, migration strategies for VMware vSphere, Hyper-V, KVM, and Xen Project, edge computing with AWS Greengrass, Azure IoT Edge, and Google Anthos, and database automation for MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, and Cassandra.

Keynotes and featured speakers have come from leaders at Red Hat, IBM, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, VMware, HashiCorp, and Docker, Inc. alongside influential technologists such as Kelsey Hightower, Bridget Kromhout, Liz Rice, Liz Fong-Jones, Brendan Burns, and Joe Beda. Enterprise case studies have been presented by representatives of Capital One, Spotify, Netflix, Airbnb, Uber, Stripe, and Shopify while panelists included members from Linux Foundation, CNCF, OpenStack Foundation, Eclipse Foundation, and Apache Software Foundation.

Sponsors range from platinum partners like Red Hat, IBM, AWS, Microsoft, Google Cloud, and VMware to regional sponsors including Canonical, SUSE, F5 Networks, Cisco, Juniper Networks, HashiCorp, and MongoDB, Inc.. Community involvement includes contributions from maintainers of Ansible Galaxy, authors such as Michael DeHaan, Jeff Geerling, Mitchell Hashimoto, Tom Duffield, and Paul Czarkowski, and local user groups like DevOpsDays, Meetup (platform), PyCon, KubeCon, and ServerlessConf. Nonprofit partners and advocacy groups such as The Linux Foundation, Open Source Initiative, Free Software Foundation, Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Apache Software Foundation frequently participate.

AnsibleFest has influenced adoption and best practices for automation across sectors including finance, healthcare, retail, and telecommunications with attendees from Verizon, AT&T, Vodafone, T-Mobile, Siemens, General Electric, Siemens Healthineers, and Philips. Coverage and commentary have appeared in publications like Wired, The Verge, TechCrunch, InfoWorld, ZDNet, The Register, and Ars Technica, while analyst firms including Gartner, Forrester, IDC, 451 Research, and O'Reilly Media have cited trends surfaced at the conference. The event has been credited with accelerating contributions to projects such as Ansible, AWX Project, Molecule (software), Ansible Lint, Kubernetes, and OpenShift and for fostering partnerships among Red Hat, IBM, Microsoft, Google, and AWS.

Category:Technology conferences