Can’t we just have a bot run our deployments? Yes we can. Here at Optum, our Splunk team has developed a hands-off method for deploying the Splunk Universal Forwarder on thousands of hosts in just minutes. With our automation we have been able to take advantage of bot integration via ChatOps to take care of our business needs, all while keeping our executives happy. Oh, and the backend configs? Yeah, we have tips on those too.
Slides PDF link - https://conf.splunk.com/files/2019/slides/FN2156.pdf?podcast=1577146201