Tech Data Centre of Excellence - Red Hat
Tech Data’s Centre of Excellence (CoE) is an adaptive virtual lab environment built for the channel ecosystem. It provides our Red Hat partners and their customers with a suite of ready-built and tested solution offerings to leverage in order to innovate, drive agility and accelerate their success and speed to market. Our Red Hat CoE enables partners and their customers to:
- Elevate internal sales and technical team on RedHat Product & Solution Knowledge.
- Accelerate partner success through Tech Data technical enablement.
- Co-Innovate with Red Hat to showcase solution use cases creating sales demand.
There are currently 9 available Red Hat CoE Scenario’s available across 3 categories including Security, Automation, Hyperconverged Infrastructure and DevOps. Check out the table below and click on the links to learn more & register.
CoE CODE : DA-S01
Smarter and Effortless Provisioning with Ansible
Provisioning is an annoying process of setting-up configurations, allocating memory, disk space, etc., before actually using them. Ansible can automate this process without human intervention.
Solution Components
Red Hat, windows, Ansible, VMware and RHEV
Value Proposition
Ansible eases the infrastructure provisioning process both on on-prem and public clouds, enabling the organizations to develop, deploy, and scale applications with greater speed, less risk, and reduced cost.
Demo Time
30 Mins
CoE CODE : DO-S02
Blue-Green deployments using Red Hat OpenShift
Blue-green deployment is a technique that reduces downtime and risk by running two identical production environments called Blue and Green. At any time, only one of the environments is live, with the live environment serving all production traffic
Solution Components
Red Hat, OpenShift and GitLab
Value Proposition
Application Deployments through Blue-Green deployment techniques on Red Hat OpenShift can reduces application downtime and risk, which can benefit organization with quick rollouts, rollbacks, and easy disaster recovery plans.
Demo Time
1 Hour
CoE CODE : SE-S32
Effectively Load balance the legacy and modern apps with NGINX
NGINX and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) are excellent choices for organizations with stringent security and compliance needs that help organizations successfully deliver legacy and modern apps in any environment avoiding costly infrastructure lock in.
Solution Components
NGINX Load balancer and Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Value Proposition
NGINX sitting on top web and application servers as a Layer 7 load balancer increases the web application's efficiency, reliability, and performance
Demo Time
20 mins
CoE CODE : DA-S02
Red Hat server Offline and Online (Satelliite) patching with Ansible
Patching a server involves various tasks such as stopping the application, patch the server with latest patches , reboot the server and start the application and these tasks can be automated using Ansible workflows
Solution Components
Red Hat, Ansible & Satellite
Value Proposition
Ansible when integrated with Satellite can execute playbooks and workflows against the dynamic inventory defined in Satellite, which allows organizations to use Satellite for patch management and Ansible to deploy and manage software configurations
Demo Time
1 Hour
CoE CODE : DO-S03
Enterprise Kubernetes cluster traffic management using your Ingress controller
Show case NGINX Ingress controller on Red Hat OpenShift using DevOps & container orchestration platform. Deployed NGINX in container and work hand in hand with F5 BIG-IP
Solution Components
NGINX Plus and Red Hat OpenShift
Value Proposition
NGINX OpenShift Router provides advanced traffic management and security services for Red Hat OpenShift that improve your application’s performance, resilience, and reliability
Demo Time
30 mins
CoE CODE : DA-S03
Automate Day 0 and Day 1 network configurations
Show case automated deployment of BIG-IP for web application - Automate initial configurations like DNS, NTP ,VLANS, Self-IPs etc., creation of virtual servers, pools, monitors, traffic profile etc.
Solution Components
F5 BIG-IP VE, Red Hat Ansible Tower
Value Proposition
F5 and Ansible provide a joint solution that helps to automate today’s multi-modal infrastructures. By cutting deployment times and significantly reducing the amount of resources required to manage modern infrastructures.
Demo Time
30 min
CoE CODE : DD-S03
Building and deploying stateful database containers on enterprise-grade Kubernetes platform
MySQL on OCP can automate the end-to-end database provisioning process and day-2 operations such as scaling and backups
Solution Components
MySQL, Red Hat OpenShift
Value Proposition
Software-defined containerized databases provide a crucial missing link in high-velocity DevOps cycles, allowing development and operations teams to collaborate seamlessly.
Demo Time
30 mins
CoE CODE : DO-S01
Running containerized application on Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift is an enterprise-ready Kubernetes container platform with full-stack automated operations to manage hybrid cloud and multicloud deployments and is optimized to improve developer productivity and promote innovation
Solution Components
Red Hat, OpenShift and GitLab
Value Proposition
Red Hat OpenShift helps organizations to cut development times for new applications from months to mere weeks, reduce platform deployments to hours, and cut application build costs by up to 60%.
Demo Time
30 mins
CoE CODE : SE-S31
NGINX Enterprise Grade Ingress Controller on OpenShift
NGINX Ingress Controller is flexible, powerful, easy-to-use, and can be quickly deployed alongside the default OpenShift router to open up advanced security, resilience, and scalability. Ideal for all environments – from dev testing to production
Solution Components
NGINX CIS and Red Hat OpenShift
Value Proposition
NGINX Ingress Controller on Red Hat OpenShift provides organizations with a flexible, secure, scalable, and fully supported solution that helps them achieve more business outcomes while delivering tremendous and immediate value.
Demo Time
20 mins
