Apis IT is a company with great tradition that goes back 50 years, as one of the oldest IT companies in Croatia, and also one of the largest, our environment is composed of thousands of servers. Throughout history, many tasks were done by hand, such as deployment and configurations. In order to resolve many issues that could arise by doing stuff by hand and to embrace modern IT practices, we came to the conclusion to adopt principles of automatization using Ansible with Git and AWX.
We will present the case of how we had applied opensource technologies to automate the processes which have been done manually in the past, which includes preparing the virtual hosts and applying configuration to a cluster of servers. We will also discuss the advantages and flaws of using automation in everyday IT work.