
Set up a test environment for Ansible using three Ubuntu servers and a control host, review playbook and YAML formats, and note hardware requirements such as 256 megabytes of RAM.
Set up an ansible environment in AWOS with an ansible host and two test nodes in a single VPC in Asia Pacific Singapore, then install and verify ansible.
Discover how ansible configuration files and a defined priority order control behavior—from ANSIBLE_CONFIG to /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg—covering inventory, ssh, facts, host key checking, and vault settings.
Explore ansible ad-hoc commands for tasks like ping and copy, and review module documentation to understand the open-source module library and when ad-hoc commands fit playbooks.
Explore building and running an Ansible playbook, defining hosts and variables, and installing packages with the apt module. Learn about become privileges, update cache, and reading module documentation.
Execute an ansible playbook to install engine X and gather remote facts, then add a file copy task and verify changes across nodes, highlighting infrastructure as code and versioned playbooks.
Dive into writing a standalone Ansible playbook, examining its structure with target variable, tasks, and handlers, and exploring loops and conditionals.
Automate apache webserver setup with an Ansible playbook, use the copy module to place index.html in /var/www/html, configure the web portal host group, and run with sudo privileges.
Use the Ansible template module to create dynamic configuration files from Jinja templates, substituting variables like ansible_host, and trigger handlers via notify to manage Apache.
Automate infrastructure with Ansible templates, multiple handlers, and notifiers, using dry run check mode to verify changes while templating host-specific configurations.
Explore Ansible loops and conditionals to automate repeated tasks in playbooks, using with_items and until to install multiple packages with the apt module and control task execution.
Master conditionals and until in an Ansible playbook for Apache install. Use when directives to target hosts, test conditions, and retry with delay until the service is active.
Master common Ansible modules such as set up, file, yum, service, copy, user, and command, and learn to gather host facts, manage files and permissions, and use vault for security.
Discover how Ansible roles boost automation by reusing community-driven Galaxy roles, search and install engine X roles, inspect role structures and templates, and publish your own roles.
This online DevOps course will teach you how to build sophisticated Infrastructure as Code (IaC) playbooks and roles using Ansible and many of its modules and plugins.
This course is designed to teach you the ins and outs of Ansible and setting up DevOps pipelines, even if you have little to no experience with it, to help implement these DevOps practices which will streamline your development processes.
Master Ansible and Ansible tasks, playbooks, modules and roles. Get familiar with advanced DevOps techniques and take your DevOps career to the next level.
While there are plenty of DevOps courses that focus on generic continuous integration and continuous delivery practices - it's hard to find a comprehensive course like this one, which focuses on teaching you Infrastructure-As-Code from the ground up using some of the most useful modules in the Ansible ecosystem.
This course is designed for all levels of DevOps practitioners who want to improve their skills, implement automation in their environments, and continue to be in great demand as DevOps engineers.
Just a few of the things you'll learn:
Improve Your DevOps Skills, Become More Marketable, And Make More Money
Regardless of what your level of experience is; whether you work in a small startup or large corporation - this in-depth course is designed to provide you with everything you need to take your DevOps skills to the next level.
Whether you are you using Java, Python, Node.JS or any other stack - a seasoned engineer knows how to design, build and run advanced build and deployment systems which can perform build, test and analysis steps - all automatically. Ansilble is a tried and test automation and DevOps tool - which provides all the bells and whistles necessary to implement these processes with ease. Not only that, Ansilble is very robust and scalable system which can scale to hundreds of nodes building many projects in a multi-user and multi-team environments.
By honing these skills, you will be chased by recruiters and companies who are looking to hire professionals with experience on Ansilble. This course shows you how.
Contents and Overview
This course aims at teaching software, IT and DevOps engineers what it takes to improve your skills, experience, and techniques to earn more money.
You will start with the basics and tackle how to install and configure Ansilble. You will get familiar with the Ansilble plugin and module ecosystem. You will get familiar with a bunch of very useful modules in the Ansilble ecosystem. You'll then dive into the different hands-on exercises to implement advanced playbooks and roles using various Ansible modules.
You'll use these tools and frameworks to master how to properly design an end to end build and deployment pipeline, which:
By the end of this master course, your confidence as a DevOps engineer will soar. You'll have a thorough understanding of Ansible and various other DevOps tools, and you can use them to their fullest potential to take small to large, simple to complex DevOps pipelines and be a part of this DevOps revolution and take your career to the next level.