Automation with Ansible - Hands-on DevOps

Learn Automating regular tasks using Ansible with lectures, hands-on demos, quizzes and hands-on coding exercises

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

Requirements
- Basic Unix/Linux Knowledge
- AWS Free Tier Account (Optional)

Description
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, Troulbeshooting scnarios 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 course Ansible AWX an upstreame project of Red hat Automation Platform (previously known as Ansible tower).

What is SaltStack?

In today's complex IT landscape, managing numerous servers and ensuring consistent configurations across them can be a daunting task. This is whereAnsiblesteps 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!

Who this course is for:
- System Administrators or System Engineers
- DevOps Administrators or DevOps Engineers
- Automation Engineers
- Cloud Administrators or Cloud Engineers
- No Scripting Knowledge
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