Security Automation driven by Ansible and GitOps principles leverage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to seamlessly integrate firewalls, switches and routers into cloud native environments. The firewall, its policies but also ip routes and vlans of networking devices become first class citizen. Achieve automated application development - fully integrated with infrastructure provisioning - driven by CI/CD practices. Experience rollback and versioning of firewall configurations: Manual keep-in-sync of security policies no longer needed. In-house application developers can take care of what is needed to make their apps secure. Approval of security changes gets atomated too: Request and approval for firewall changes will be handled and monitored from within the GitOps workflow.