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Introduction to Ansible (Ansible 100)
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This course delivers the essential, foundational skills required to succeed with Ansible, no matter your starting point or goals. This course covers the core concepts and techniques needed for automating server configurations, deploying applications, managing cloud infrastructure, or orchestrating complex workflows. You’ll learn to write powerful playbooks, manage inventories, and automate tasks using key modules. Through hands-on labs and practical examples, you’ll gain the crucial knowledge to confidently work with Ansible in any environment or role. If you’re ready to master the must-have skills that form the backbone of all Ansible use cases, this course is the perfect starting point.
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Course Outline and Details
Prerequisites
- Basic Keyboard Proficiency: Ability to efficiently navigate and use a keyboard, including typing, copy-pasting, and basic text editing in terminal and/or text editors.
Target Audience
- DevOps Engineers
- System Administrators
- IT Operations Professionals
- Cloud Engineers
- Network Administrators
- Technical Managers
Course Objectives
- Ansible Basics: Learn its purpose, components, and core concepts.
- YAML Essentials: Master YAML syntax for Ansible configurations.
- Inventory Management: Define and manage target hosts.
- Automate with Playbooks: Run playbooks to streamline tasks.
- Set Up and Optimize ansible.cfg: Configure Ansible for your environment by setting up and customizing the ansible.cfg file.
- Use Variables and Loops in Playbooks: Leverage variables and loops to create dynamic, reusable playbooks.
- Work with Essential Modules: Master critical Ansible modules like copy, file, and get_url for managing files and data.
- Template Configurations with Jinja2: Use Jinja2 templates to create dynamic configurations tailored to your environment.
- Implement Advanced Playbook Features: Explore advanced concepts like handlers, conditions, and tagging to build flexible and maintainable playbooks.
- Secure Automation with Ansible Vault: Learn how to encrypt sensitive data and manage secrets securely using Ansible Vault.
Course Outline
Ansible Overview
- Introduction to Ansible
Day 1- Ansible Basics
- Introduction to YAML
- Making an Inventory
- Running a Playbook
- ansible.cfg setup
- Looping Tasks
- Setting Variables: Part 1
- Setting Variables: Part 2
Day 2- Critical Modules and Keywords
- Ansible Module – copy
- Ansible Module – file
- Ansible Module – get_url and uri
- Templating with Jinja
- Ansible Module – template
- When Condition
- Playbook Tags
Day 3- Advanced Ansible
- Ansible Handlers and Listeners
- Ansible Error Handling
- Ansible Lookup Plugin
- Ansible Callback Plugins
- Collections, Roles, and Ansible Galaxy
- Using Collections
- Using Roles
- Making Roles
- Making Collections
- Ansible Vault
- Capstone
Additional Ansible Tools
- Ansible Module – script
- Writing an Ansible Module with Python