What you'll learn:
- Introduction to Automation with Ansible
- Deploy and Configure Ansible Controller and Managed Nodes
- Developing and Managing Ansible Inventory files
- Develop Ansible code using Ansible Playbooks
- Ansible Roles and Collections
- Ansible Galaxy and Vault
- Insights to Concepts like Ansible Ad-hoc tasks, Variables, Facts, Conditionals, Loops and Handlers
- Ansible AWX - Web Based User Interface for Ansible
- Ansible for Windows
- Troubleshooting Cases
What’s in this course?
This Automation with Ansible course, designed for absolute beginners, introduces the basic fundamental blocks needed to get started with Ansible. The course begins with an introduction to Ansible and Ansible's key terminologies followed by real time Ansible setup, In-depth Architecture, Ansible Modules. This course also covers some of the core critical concepts such as Playbooks, Roles, Collections, important Ansible configuration files, Facts, Ansible Vault, Jinja Templates, Ansible for Windows, Troubleshooting scenarios and much more. Don’t worry if you are new to Ansible, we are going to get started with the absolute basics. Each lecture in this course is accompanied by real hands-on demos.
This course also covers Ansible AWX an upstream project of Red hat Automation Platform (previously known as Ansible tower).
What is Ansible?
In today's complex IT landscape, managing numerous servers and ensuring consistent configurations across them can be a daunting task. This is where Ansible steps in, offering a powerful open-source platform to simplify and automate infrastructure management including the provisioning, patching, configuration, and management of operating systems and application components across enterprise data centers, cloud environments or Virtual infrastructures like VMware.
Course Structure:
Lectures
Demos
Quizzes
Assignments
Course Contents:
Introduction to Ansible
Understanding Ansible Framework and Terminologies
Setting up Ansible Environment
Ansible Indepth Architecture
Inventory types and Management
Modules - The Basic Building Blocks
Adhoc Tasks
Ansible Code Creation Process (Playbooks)
Ansible for automating Windows tasks
Variables, Magic Variables and Facts
Conditionals and Loops
Handlers System
Ansible Roles and Collections for Bigger Environments
Ansible Galaxy for pre-built Roles and Collections
Ansible Vault
Troubleshooting Tips
Ansible AWS - a web based UI
All sections in this course are demonstrated Live. The intention for enrolled users is to setup their own Ansible environment, perform the exercises and learn by doing!
