Ansible & Ansible-Playbooks For Automation

The target audience for this course are systems or automation engineers with a few years of experience in managing various parts of infrastructure, including operating systems, application configurations, and deployments.

This course also targets anyone who intends to manage systems and application configurations effectively and in an automated way, with the shortest learning curve.

What you’ll learn

• Ansible Controller with Ad-hoc commands

• Implementation of Ansible Playbooks from basic level to advanced level

• Ansible Installation and Configuration with directory structure and Architecture

• Ansible Ad-hoc commands

• Ansible Facts and Variables

• Ansible Inventories (Static and Dynamic Inventories)

• How to work with Managed nodes if managed nodes are not installed with Python

• Password Authentication setup and explanation

• Introduction to Ansible Playbooks

• Operations on strings and numbers using Playbooks (Filters and Methods )

• Operators to work with tasks

• Conditional Statements, loops, tags and handlers

• Block module and its usage

• Template module variables, conditional statements and loops

• Ansible Vault Concept.

Are there any course requirements or prerequisites?

• Provisioning Servers

  • From VMWare or From Any Cloud

• Knowledge on

  • Unix/Linux Environment

  • Basic Commands

  • Usage of vi/vim Commands to Create a File

  • What is SSH Connection with Remote Servers ?

  • Difference between password-less and password authentication

  
  

Notes:

• Basic knowledge on any programming or scripting language

• Its good if you have knowledge on python as Ansible is developed with python

• Shell Scripting or Python Scripting is mandatory to develop own modules/collections

Who this course is for:

• who are looking for a job in Automation using Ansible and Ansible Playbooks