Richmond Red Hat User Group

Event overview:

 

Red Hat^® User Group (RHUG) events offer a unique opportunity for Red Hat technology users to gather and discover solutions to IT challenges with subject matter experts & peers. Join the next RHUG to network and explore cutting-edge solutions for IT modernization. Don’t miss this opportunity to transform your IT services while enjoying great food and building connections with industry professionals.

 

As hybrid cloud environments scale and architectural complexity explodes, operations teams increasingly battle alert fatigue and emerging security threats. Traditional automation relies on a strict, deterministic approach—requiring a manually written rule for every known signal. Today, organizations can no longer script or out-pace every anomalous drift, threshold breach, or vulnerability. To address this, IT operations are evolving their automation strategies—building on the strong foundation of generative AI and expanding into practical, agentic workloads that actively augment human decision-making.
 

This Red Hat User Group session explores how to build a more intelligent, resilient IT operation using Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) as the foundational engine for your AIOps strategy. We will examine how to bridge the gap between AI-driven intelligence and predictable, governed execution without losing control. Discover advanced workflows where observability platforms feed alerts directly into Event-Driven Ansible (EDA), enabling AI to evaluate system logs for root-cause analysis before recommending or coordinating the precise playbook needed for remediation. The session will culminate in a practical 15-minute demonstration of an automated response workflow in action, proving how your teams can leverage AI to accelerate resolution safely within established guardrails.
 

Key Takeaways

• Evolution to Agentic AI: Understand how AI inference transforms unpredicted system alerts into intelligent, guided resolutions for performance issues and emerging security threats.
• Closed-Loop AIOps Workflow: Learn how agentless automation connects observability signals to automated triage, log analysis, and LLM-enabled diagnostics.
• Governed Execution & The Trust Boundary: Discover how to safely deploy AI-assisted remediation using Ansible’s built-in Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), approval gates, Model Context Protocol (MCP), and job labeling to keep humans in the loop.
• Practical Path to Advanced Automation: Strategies for starting small with read-only use cases—like ticket enrichment and configuration drift auditing—before scaling to more sophisticated, AI-guided infrastructure and vulnerability remediation.

Event Details:
When: December 2, 2026
What time: 4:30- 7:30 PM ET
Where:  Topgolf:  2308 Westwood Ave, Richmond, VA 23230