06 Automate This! Adventures in Ansible with Steve Wolk & Nima Bank

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This episode features a discussion on Ansible automation with guests Steve Wolk and Nima Bank, focusing on their real-world experiences and innovations.

06 Get ready for a fun and insightful episode of The Incredible i Show! This week, I welcome IBM Champion and CTO Steve Wolk, and Senior Infrastructure Engineer Nima Bank, to talk all things Ansible on IBM i. Steve and Nima share their real-world automation journey—from tackling unexpected performance issues to discovering the magic of Ansible automation. You’ll hear how they turned necessity into innovation, improved efficiency, and why Ansible is such a powerful tool when paired with IBM i....

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Host: Peg Tuttle

Guests: Steve Wolk, Nima Bank

Topics covered

• automation
• Ansible
• IBM i
• performance issues
• efficiency
• innovation

Keywords

• Ansible
• automation
• IBM i
• performance
• efficiency
• innovation

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: IBM, Ansible

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