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Key Takeaways:

1. Modern Infrastructure Requires Unified Operations, Not Just Automation

Organizations are moving beyond fragmented Infrastructure as Code and configuration management toward centralized, policy-driven infrastructure operations. The webinar highlights how unified control planes can bring together provisioning, governance, deployment, and continuous compliance across the entire infrastructure lifecycle.

2. Modernization Strategies Differ Across Greenfield, Brownfield, and Bluefield Environments

Infrastructure transformation is not a one-size-fits-all journey. Teams must balance operational continuity, governance, developer experience, and innovation differently depending on whether they are building new cloud-native environments, modernizing legacy systems, or operating in hybrid modernization models.

3. AI and Ansible Are Complementary Forces in Infrastructure Operations

While Ansible continues to play a critical role in Day-2 operations, configuration management, and deployment modernization, emerging AI-assisted workflows are helping teams validate infrastructure changes, detect drift, generate remediation guidance, and scale operational efficiency.
Presenters
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Jared Harris
Webinar Host
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Mrina Sugosh
Senior Product Manager - Harness
Mrinalini Sugosh specializes in making complex technologies ranging from cloud-native infrastructure and Kubernetes to application code, AI-driven developer tools, and CI/CD workflows accessible, practical, and engaging for technical and business audiences. Her experience spans cloud engineering, developer relations, technical product marketing, and content strategy at companies such as IBM, DigitalOcean, TinyMCE, CKEditor, and Harness. She also builds advanced internal AI workflows and is the author of several high-impact guides on modern infrastructure delivery and software development.
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Ian Kurtz
Solution Engineer - Harness
Ian Kurtz, a Solution Engineer based in Chicago, IL. I have been in DevOps for the past 7 years, gaining a passion for solution architecture, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code along the way. That all started in my first as a DevOps engineer where I led efforts in rolling out a modern toolchain at Abbott Labs. I quickly learned that I can combine my love for tech and my love for talking to people into a role where I can help companies solve their biggest goals around software delivery ... which brought me to Harness!