Simple Engineer Notes

📃AI agents in incident management

https://pretalx.devconf.info/devconf-cz-2025/talk/NYQ3SE/

- in ideal world AI should do incident management and page only in really serious cases
- but the cost of error might be too high
- in case of incident people have almost standard flow: get the overview of the situation and what has been changed
- AI can prepare that overview and save some time to meet SLA
- AI can generate post morterm from chats, logs, repos
- under the hood MCP is used because it’s kind of standard & can safe time for dev
- ai prepare overviews and possible actions, but humans decide

#ai #devconf #debug

📃Ansible automation for work and for fun

https://pretalx.devconf.info/devconf-cz-2025/talk/PF3BGZ/

- people want to have big green button
- Avoid the pitfalls of the copy/paste approach
- Prevent the dangers of a "works on my machine" mentality
- https://ansible.readthedocs.io/projects/dev-tools/
- isolate & normalize environments: dev containers
- use execution environments for running your playbook
- it supports air gapped installations and allows to sign the EE shipped to customers

#ansible #devconf

📃Securing Secrets at Scale: Integrating Ansible Automation with Conjur

https://pretalx.devconf.info/devconf-cz-2025/talk/WDGJXW/

- there is fundamental flaw in the ansible vault if it is stored in the git
- awx is not enough but fine
- do not re invent the wheel
- https://github.com/cyberark/conjur-quickstart
- hashicorp vault competitor

#ansible #devconf