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This course builds a strong foundation in infrastructure automation using Ansible, equipping you with the skills to replace manual server provisioning with consistent, repeatable, and scalable automation workflows. You’ll begin by understanding why infrastructure automation is essential in modern IT environments. Instead of relying on manual configuration and repetitive setup processes, you’ll learn how Infrastructure as Code (IaC) brings structure, reliability, and version control to server management. You’ll explore Ansible’s agentless architecture, core components such as inventories, modules, tasks, and playbooks, and set up a working Ansible control node with secure SSH connectivity to managed systems. Next, you’ll move into practical server automation. Using Ansible modules, you’ll manage packages, services, users, permissions, files, and operating system configurations with precision. You’ll design structured, maintainable playbooks using variables, handlers, loops, and conditionals, and provision a baseline Linux server from scratch. You’ll also validate idempotency through repeat executions, ensuring that your automation workflows are stable, predictable, and production-ready. The course concludes with an integrated practice project that reinforces real-world automation design, helping you consolidate foundational concepts into applied infrastructure management scenarios. By the end of this course, you will be able to: - Explain the need for infrastructure automation and differentiate manual provisioning from Ansible-based workflows. - Configure and manage an Ansible environment, including inventories, SSH access, and connectivity validation. - Automate package, service, user, file, and OS-level configurations using Ansible modules. - Design structured, reusable playbooks using variables, handlers, loops, and conditionals. - Provision and validate Linux servers using idempotent automation principles. - Implement consistent, repeatable Infrastructure as Code workflows for modern IT environments. Designed for system administrators, DevOps engineers, cloud practitioners, and IT professionals, this course provides the technical depth and practical experience required to confidently implement infrastructure automation using Ansible. Step in and build the foundation for efficient, scalable, and reliable infrastructure management.

Syllabus

Fundamentals of Ansible and Environment Setup

Establish the core foundations of infrastructure automation with Ansible. This module introduces the shift from manual provisioning to automated workflows, explains the architecture of Ansible and essential building blocks, and guides you through configuring a working environment with secure connectivity, preparing you to manage systems with precision and consistency.

Basic Server Management with Ansible

Strengthen your automation skills by managing real-world server configurations using Ansible. This module focuses on applying modules for system administration tasks, designing structured and maintainable playbooks, and provisioning Linux servers with consistency and reliability ensuring stable, repeatable, and production-ready automation workflows.

Course Wrap-Up and Assessment

This module concludes the course by revisiting the key concepts covered throughout the program and assessing your overall understanding. It allows you to consolidate what you have learned and demonstrate your ability to apply infrastructure automation principles in a practical and structured manner.