Consider adding Red Hat Insights integration as a Tower optional workshop

[kyleabenson]

Showcasing the integration between Ansible Tower and Red Hat Insights as an optional workshop for Tower could be a nice way to highlight a few things including:

• A different type of SCM within Tower
• How we're investing time in user experiences and expanding Tower's impact with other RH products

Probably the biggest caveat would be that the demonstrator or user would need a BYO Insights subscription, which could be achieved via https://access.redhat.com/insights/evaluation. This wouldn't be too much different from those playing at home who need cloud provider account (currently AWS) and a Tower trial.

In large format classes like those delivered by the Ansible SAs, we'd likely need a dedicated account for this, but most people externally could use the Insights eval for their 4 systems.

The basic demo might be something like:

1. Once all systems are available in the Tower inventory, run a playbook that generates some type of Insights error
2. Walk through connecting Tower and Red Hat Insights
3. Register the systems to RH Insights with a playbook using the RH Insights role
4. Browse the Insights UI & create a maintenance plan within Insights
5. Import said plan into Tower
6. Execute against each of the affect systems

The work is pretty simple once we've decided on the example and if we want to introduce another account requirement.

[tima]

I'm certainly open to this idea and have been in contact with some of the Insights people. The biggest caveat wouldn't be the BYO Insights subscription though, it would be providing an eval subscription for the students and self-paced learner to use in addition to lab instances with existing problems Insights will pickup.

[bhirsch70]

I'd be happy to pick this up. I serve as the Insights SME in pub sector and can work with the BU to come up with a "workshop" eval sub similar to what you all did with Tower.

[gregdek]

So long as the eval is (reasonably) easily accessible for community folks, this would be great.

What I don't want to see is a workshop that we say "anyone can run" and then that anyone turns out to be "just Red Hat folks" for various logistics reasons.

[xunlinkx]

Evals currently require a paid RHEL subscription. The entitlement model would need to be changed to enable this, although I think it would be a wonderful idea. Agree with @gregdek