Introduction to Ansible
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About This Course
Introduction to Ansible | Automation with Ansible is a three-day, lab-intensive course geared for toward those responsible for automation of configuration management; consistent and repeatable application deployment; provisioning and deployment of development, testing, and production servers; and (optionally) integration with DevOps CI/CD workflows. Throughout the course participants will explore core Ansible features such as automatic provisioning, configuration management, service deployment and operational processes. This course also covers enterprise topics such as managing sensitive data (Ansible Vault), Ansible Tower, and integrating with Docker (optional). Attendees might include Linux system administrators, DevOps engineers, infrastructure automation engineers, and systems design engineers.
Course Outline
Please note that this list of topics is based on our standard course offering, evolved from typical industry uses and trends. We’ll work with you to tune this course and level of coverage to target the skills you need most.
- Ansible Overview
- Overview of Architecture
- Overview of Deployments
- Inventory
- Deploying Ansible
- Installing
- Configuration Files
- Running Ad Hoc Commands
- Dynamic Inventory
- Playbooks
- Writing YAML Files
- Modules
- Variables and Inclusions
- Variables
- Facts
- Inclusions
Please note that this list of topics is based on our standard course offering, evolved from typical industry uses and trends. We will work with you to tune this course and level of coverage to target the skills you need most.
- Task Control
- Constructing Flow Control
- Handlers
- Tags
- Handling Errors
- Jinja2 Templates
- Jinja2 Templates
- Jinja2 Templates
- Roles
- Role Structure
- Creating Roles
- Deploying Roles with Ansible Galaxy
- Optimizing Ansible
- Configuring Connection Types
- Configuring Delegation
- Configuring Parallelism
- Ansible Vault
- Configuring Ansible Vault
- Executing with Ansible Vault
- Troubleshooting Ansible
- Troubleshooting Playbooks
- Troubleshooting Managed Hosts
- Ansible Tower
- Ansible Tower overview
- Installing
- Account management
- Hosts
- Jobs
Bonus / Time-Permitting: Ansible in a DevOps Environment
- Provisioning Vagrant Machines
- Deploying Vagrant in a DevOps Environment
- Deploying Docker in a DevOps Environment
Learning Objectives
Pre-requisites
- This is an Introductory level course for experienced Linux system administrators, DevOps engineers, infrastructure automation engineers, and systems design engineers. Ideally students should have familiarity with basic Python scripting. Attendees without programming skills can follow along with the scripting portion of the labs.