This session is oriented to DevOps and covers three major areas: CI/CD, Ansible and Introduction to API

In particular, the session will start with a presentation about Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (30-45 mins), followed by a presentation about Ansible for Fortinet products (30-45 mins) and will finalize with a hands-on-lab oriented mainly to Ansible (2 hours) that will cover also a brief exercise with FortiGate API (15 mins).

The products used in this lab will be FGT and FMG 6.2.3.

Your goals for this session will be:

CI/CD:

• Learn about what CI/CD is
• Learn about what CI/CD implies and where it can be used
• Learn about how security is related to CI/CD
• Learn about Infrastructure as Code and Security as Code

Ansible:

• Learn about what Ansible is
• Learn about what Ansible can do
• Learn about how to configure and run Ansible
• Learn about our current Ansible modules for FortiGate and FortiManager
• Configure FortiGate and FortiManager with existing Ansible playbooks
• Create new playbooks for FortiGate/FortiManager according to your needs
• Learn about Ansible Collections
• Learn about Ansible Roles
• Learn about Ansible Vault, to store secrets safely

API:

• Learn about FortiGate API (brief exercise during previous Ansible lab)