Demo

Automating Data Transformations for DevOps Teams

As a DevOps engineer focused on automation, you are probably already familiar with some of the burden of writing and maintaining code that integrates with all of the different IT systems. Automating even the most basic of IT services can require integration with your ITSM system, sources of truth, compute, storage, and multiple networking systems. Writing the code to integrate and manipulate data between these systems is a tremendous amount of work, and because the IT ecosystem continues to evolve and change over time (new systems are added and removed, APIs change, etc.) the task of managing and updating integration code for every automation becomes monumental.

While this “integration tax” may seem unavoidable, that’s not the case with Itential. By leveraging your existing code with our automation platform, you can benefit from the ability to quickly manage the API integration of these systems, including multiple versions of the same system, and quickly build reusable JSON data transformations to work between your code and these systems. Itential makes it simple to manage integrating with your IT ecosystem today, and tomorrow, so you can focus more time developing automations.

In this demo, you will learn the following:

  • What are Itential Data Transformations.
  • How to Integrate IT systems with the Itential Automation Platform, using API documentation.
  • How to access API methods in an automation workflow within Itential.
  • How to build automated JSON Transformations.
  • How to utilize your programs with Itential Data Transformations.

Demo Notes

(So you can skip ahead, if you want.)

00:00 Intro and Demo Overview
04:25 Integration Tax Challenges
11:53 Onboarding Your Own Code
14:12 Integrating a New System in Minutes
18:24 Utilizing API Calls in Automation
23:38 Building a Data Transformation
36:04 Integrating Your Code in an Automation
38:27 Adding a Form for a Second Source of Truth
41:27 Extending the Data Transformation with Form Data
45:05 Passing Formatted Data to Your Code
46:13 Deploying an Automation & Viewing Results