Talk Abstract: Managing the Elastic Stack with Ansible

Joe will be demonstrating how to provision and manage a full Elastic Stack deployment (products designed to help users take data from any source and in any format, and search, analyze and visualize that data) using Ansible (the simplest way to automate IT) as well as strategies for managing multiple clusters and dealing with air-gapped environments. Included in the discussion and demonstration will be Ansible roles and playbooks for Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Beats, Elastic Agent, and Fleet Server. The focus of the demonstration is geared toward on-premise environments however the concepts presented can be easily adopted towards any other deployment type (cloud, hybrid, etc.).

Speaker Bio:

Joseph "Joey D" Dissmeyer has worn many hats in the professional and enterprise IT roles since entering the field in 2007 and has been an Elastic Stack evangelist for almost half of his career. He has been a Desktop Support Tech, SysAdmin, Network Engineer, Observability Engineer, and more. Joey's current role is Systems Reliability Engineer at Accesso LLC, a worldwide company that provides a wide variety of virtual queuing technology solutions, eCommerce, and professional services for travel, entertainment, and leisure companies including theme parks, zoos, cruise ships, concert venues, performing arts, etc. Joey's prior role was at Universal Parks & Resorts based in Orlando where he first was introduced to the Elastic Stack and used it's capabilities to help many teams both within Universal Parks teams, as well as collaborating with the Comcast VISE team, on observability, monitoring, and reporting needs for attractions, point-of-sale, eCommerce, mobile, data pipelines, video services, and many other customer-facing internal and external systems.