Create Automation Tool Using Ansible, Shell - Linux

Name: Create Automation Tool Using Ansible, Shell - Linux
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Start on-demand career as Automation Engineer and learn how to create Automation Tool from IT professionals.

Created byShikhar Verma

Last updated 11/2018

English

What you'll learn

Create your own Automation tool
Should able to learn how to develop an automation tool using various scripts like Shell Scripting, Ansible & python etc.
High level exposure on Ansible & Shell Scripting
Concept of Automation Tool
Familiar with how to automate day to day various Unix tasks.
How to make Unix Administrators work easy, efficient and fast.
Capture pre-change configurations details
User Administration using Ansible with Shell Scripting
Health Check Statistics Report using Ansible with Shell Scripting
Familiar with Ansible Playbooks
Familiar with Ansible Ad-Hocs commands to capture various health report

Course content

5 sections • 28 lectures • 2h 39m total length

Introduction5:13
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Concept of Automation Tool5:41
Explore the concept of building an automation tool with ansible, detailing how to securely manage tasks from a control node using a jump host, port 22, and sudo privileges.
Front Look of Automation Tool5:24
Discover the front look of an automation tool for unix tasks, featuring options for revalidation, configuration capture, health checks, and user administration to streamline troubleshooting and maintenance.
Setup Enviornment4:25
Set up a linux automation environment using Ansible, including jump servers and target hosts; configure a normal user, enable passwordless SSH with public/private keys, and prepare playbooks.

User Administration Tasks Using Ansible & Shell3:25
Learn to administer users and groups across multiple Linux servers with Ansible and shell, including adding and removing users, resetting encrypted passwords with Python assets, and auditing services like Apache.
Health Check Statistics3:37
Learn to use a health check tool to monitor real-time memory usage, processes, and service status, generate performance reports, and identify bottlenecks using top and related options.
Requirement for the Automation Tool4:40
Shell Scripting
if..else..elif Statement
Loops
Sed
Awk
The Case Esac Statement

Design Front Look using case statement8:50
Design the front look of an automation tool using a case statement, creating a user friendly menu with options like revalidation and user administration in a lab session.
Practice Lab Session on Case Statement - 13:21
Practice Lab Session on Case Statement - 26:00
Explore a practice lab session that demonstrates a menu-driven shell automation using case statements and while loops to perform create and remove operations and manage options.
Color Fonts in Designing the look of Automation tool2:56
Design the front end of an automation tool using color fonts and a colorizing system for menu options. See how colors like purple, red, green, and blue influence the interface.
Headline & Selecting target servers5:57
Design and select target servers for a multi-server automation task, using target groups and collections, by creating targets and functions within the automation tool.
Select target servers from Automation tool6:44
Learn to select target servers from the automation tool by adding a menu option, choosing environments, and extracting the target from input using file outputs and grep.
Lab Session2:29

User Creation via Ansible Playbook & Shell6:12
python to create encrypted password3:24
Python generates an encrypted password for inclusion in the Ansible playbooks, while shell scripts automate user creation, home directories, and group assignments for remote targets.
Lab Session on User Creation8:23
This lab demonstrates building an Ansible and shell script workflow to automate user creation across servers, with host targets, encrypted passwords, input-driven variables, and privilege escalation.
User Removal using Automation tool12:08
Password Reset using Automation tool9:53
Group Add using Automation Tool5:11
Pre-validation Configuration10:41

Memory Utilization using Automation Tool7:25
CPU Utilization using Automation tool3:41
Disk IO Utilzation using Automation Tool4:53
Learn to diagnose disk IO bottlenecks using ad hoc Linux commands, view per-disk IO statistics, identify the culprit disk with high transactions per second and utilization, and take targeted actions.
Run queue & Average Load using Automation tool5:19
Top CPU/Mem Utilization using Automation Tool5:30
Identify top cpu and memory consuming processes using commands, leveraging an automation tool to report results across servers and escalate culprits to the right teams for performance issues.
Shared Memory2:09
Learn to view linux shared memory statistics and segments with the command shown. Select the target and use option 6 to display the shared memory output.
Check Service Status, Start, Stop & Enabled Using tool6:22

Requirements

PC or Laptop with internet Connection
Basic Ansible, Shell Scripting is required and also system administrator experience would be very beneficial.

Description

By the end of the course you will:

Be able to confidently to create your own Automation tool to increase your productivity and Career.
Be able to start automating various day to day Unix related tasks to reduce the manual efforts.

Course Overview

Overview of Automation Tool
Concept of Automation Tool
Communication between Ansible Server with managed hosts
Front look of Automation Tool

What we are achieving from this Automation tool.

Pre-validation Configuration (To capture pre-change configuration details)
User Administration

1. User Creation
2. User Removal
3. Group Add
4. Password Reset

Run Ad Hoc Command

Health Check Statistics

1. Memory Utilization
2. CPU Utilization
3. Overall I/O Activities
4. Reports run queue and load average
5. Top Memory Consuming processes
6. Top CPU Consuming Processes
7. Shared Memory

Design of Automation Tool
Design Front Look using case statement
Practice Lab Session on case Statement -1
Practice Lab Session on case Statement -2
Color Fonts in desinging the tool
Headline & Selecting the target servers
Lab sessions

Shell Scripting

1. If..else..elif statement
2. Loops
3. Sed – Stream Editot
4. Awk

The case esac statement
Overview of Ansible

Who this course is for:

Graduate Students and also for those who are in job in System Administration & wants to get hands-on practical experience on developing a Automation tool
IT professionals across a broad range of disciplines who need to perform essesntial automation tasks in their organization.

Create Automation Tool Using Ansible, Shell - Linux

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Course content

Introduction4 lectures • 21min

Achieving from Automation tool3 lectures • 12min

Designing of Automation Tool7 lectures • 36min

Ansible Playbook & Shell Scripting7 lectures • 56min

Health Check Statistics7 lectures • 35min

Requirements

Description

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