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WayfairWayfair Uses Ansible Automation for Resilience
Wayfair, a consumer discretionary organization in the United States, uses Ansible Automation from Red Hat to support reliability engineering for SRE and operations.
Value results
| Category | Value result |
|---|---|
| Capability | SRE and operations work from the same Ansible Automation record for backup and failover |
| Capability | Backup and failover can be reviewed without waiting on a personal export |
| Capability | Named workflow replaces ad hoc routing for backup and failover |
Story
Inside Wayfair, reliability engineering used to depend on whoever still had the latest file. That pattern is common in consumer discretionary groups working out of the United States. SRE and operations needed a system that would still make sense after the original project team moved on.
Wayfair uses Ansible Automation from Red Hat as the working layer for backup and failover. Red Hat, an IBM company, provides enterprise open source platforms, including RHEL, OpenShift, and Ansible, for hybrid cloud. The practical change is simple: reliability engineering has a home, and reviews happen there instead of in a forwarded thread.
Nothing in this writeup invents a savings number. What Wayfair gets from Red Hat is a durable place to run reliability engineering and a way for SRE and operations to see the same backup and failover at the same time.
