The Click-Down Season 3 Ep 10: Citrix Automation

I had the pleasure of joining The Click-Down podcast for Season 3 Episode 10 to talk about one of my favorite topics: automation in Citrix environments. If you've been following my work over the years you know I'm a big believer in automating everything you can. Manual deployments don't scale and they introduce human error. Period.

In this episode we get into the real-world side of automation, not just the marketing slides but what actually works when you're deploying Citrix at enterprise scale. We cover Terraform, Ansible, PowerShell, and the newer Citrix automation tools that have matured significantly over the past year.

Listen to the full episode on Citrix (23 minutes)

Some of the things we covered:

• Why most organizations are still doing manual Citrix deployments and the cost of that approach
• Infrastructure-as-code with Terraform for Citrix Cloud and on-premises environments
• Using Ansible playbooks for configuration management across Citrix infrastructure
• PowerShell SDK automation patterns I've used at Fortune 500 customers
• How to start small with automation and build up to full CI/CD for your Citrix environment

If you have questions or want to share your own automation experiences, drop a comment below.