Infrastructure Automation with Terraform and Ansible

Learn to install Ansible, manage inventories, and write playbooks to automate infrastructure — no coding skills needed. Ansible is one of the most popular open-source IT automation tools, used by teams worldwide to deploy applications, manage configurations, and orchestrate infrastructure — all without writing custom scripts or installing agents on remote systems. This course gives you a practical foundation in Ansible's core components. You'll start by setting up a local Ansible environment using VirtualBox, installing Ansible, and learning the YAML syntax that powers every Ansible configuration. From there, you'll learn how to build and organize inventory files that define the hosts Ansible manages, including inventory formats and group hierarchies. In the second half of the course, you'll write Ansible playbooks — structured YAML files that orchestrate tasks across your inventory. You'll also explore commonly used Ansible modules for managing packages, files, services, and more. Every topic is reinforced with hands-on labs you can practice directly in your browser. Who this is for: Aspiring DevOps engineers, system administrators, and IT professionals who want a practical starting point with automation. No programming or prior Ansible experience is required — just basic familiarity with IT concepts.

Build Smarter Ansible Playbooks. Learn to use variables, conditionals, loops, and roles to create flexible, reusable Ansible automation. Once you can write basic Ansible playbooks, the next step is making them flexible, efficient, and reusable. This course teaches you four key capabilities that transform simple playbooks into production-ready automation. You'll start with Ansible variables — how to define them, understand variable types, register task output as variables, and control behavior through scoping and precedence rules. You'll also explore magic variables, which give your playbooks access to system-level information automatically. From there, you'll learn to use conditionals to run tasks only when specific criteria are met, and loops to iterate over lists and perform repetitive tasks efficiently. The course wraps up with Ansible roles — a structured way to organize and reuse playbook logic, handlers, templates, and files across projects. Every topic includes hands-on labs, and the course features interactive exercises including a troubleshooting role-play and scenario-based dialogues that connect Ansible skills to real-world workflows. Who this is for: DevOps engineers, system administrators, and IT professionals who understand Ansible basics (inventory, playbooks, modules) and want to write more powerful, maintainable automation.

Terraform and Ansible are two of the most widely used Infrastructure as Code tools — and they're most powerful when used together. This applied capstone course teaches you to provision AWS cloud resources with Terraform and configure servers with Ansible, then integrate both tools into a single automated pipeline. You'll start by applying Ansible modules to manage files, packages, services, and access controls across servers. You'll use Jinja2 templates to generate dynamic configurations and conditionals to adapt playbook behavior to different environments. From there, you'll use Terraform's Write-Plan-Apply workflow to build AWS networking and compute resources — VPCs with custom subnets, security groups, EC2 instances in both public and private subnets, and IAM policies. The course then scales to advanced scenarios: attaching IAM policies for DynamoDB access and creating CloudWatch alarms — all defined in Terraform code. You'll learn integration patterns for connecting Terraform provisioning to Ansible configuration, including passing Terraform outputs to dynamic Ansible inventories. Everything follows a hands-on structure: read the concept, attempt the lab, then watch a solution video that walks through expert reasoning. The course culminates in a portfolio-ready capstone project where you design and build a complete multi-tier AWS environment, provisioning infrastructure with Terraform and configuring it with Ansible through a seamless pipeline. Who this is for: DevOps engineers and cloud practitioners with AWS familiarity, networking fundamentals, and working knowledge of both Terraform and Ansible who are ready to integrate these tools for production-grade infrastructure automation.

Terraform is one of the most widely used Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools for automating cloud provisioning. This course gives you the foundational skills to start using it with confidence. You'll begin by learning why IaC matters — how it solves the challenges of traditional infrastructure management and why Terraform stands out among IaC tools. From there, you'll install Terraform, set up your development environment, and write your first configurations using HashiCorp Configuration Language (HCL). As you progress, you'll work with Terraform providers to connect to cloud services, organize configuration directories, use input and output variables, and define resource attributes and dependencies. Each topic is paired with a hands-on lab so you can practice in a real environment. By the end of this course, you'll be able to write, update, and manage Terraform configurations that provision and control cloud infrastructure. These are foundational skills used daily by cloud engineers, DevOps practitioners, and infrastructure teams. Who this is for: Aspiring cloud engineers, DevOps practitioners, and IT professionals looking for a practical starting point with Infrastructure as Code. Basic familiarity with IT or cloud concepts is helpful, but no Terraform or coding experience is required.