DevOps: Hands-On Guide To Automation With Ansible

Learn how VMware virtualization enables scalable cluster testing and how Ansible automates deployment across multiple nodes, making hardware setup, OS updates, and application deployment repeatable and reliable.

Explore VMware as a leading virtualization and cloud platform, its hypervisor architecture, workstation player on Linux, and how portable virtual machines enable remote test clusters for Ansible automation.

Explore how VMware virtualization consolidates hardware, reduces downtime, and supports disaster recovery by moving virtual clients between hosts, with VMware Workstation Player.

Explore the benefits and installation of VMware Workstation Player, including pre-configured software, mass deployments, unattended setup, privacy settings, and a secure, portable virtual lab for testing and development.

Discover VMware virtualization and cloud computing with VMware Workstation Player, its advantages, and a simple installation, while previewing the next module on installing and configuring virtual machines.

Deploy Linux-based virtual machines to install and configure Ansible, demonstrating virtualization for multiple isolated operating systems and efficient resource use across platforms.

Linux virtualization concepts, including kernel-based virtual machines, type 1 hypervisors, and configuring Ubuntu and Fedora virtual machines for secure, isolated deployments.

launch and configure two Linux virtual machines on a virtualization platform to compare management processes between Ubuntu 16.04 and Fedora 26, including download, ISO installation, and disk setup.

Demonstrates installing Fedora 25 workstation in a virtual machine using VMware Workstation Player. Covers downloading the ISO, creating a VM, and configuring 20 GB disk with root and user passwords.

Configure root privileges for users using sudo on Fedora and Ubuntu VMs, enabling passwordless access by editing the sudoers file and validating with sudo updates.

Review Linux virtualization basics, Ubuntu features, and Fedora capabilities for virtualization, and practice configuring root privileges on Ubuntu 16.04 and Fedora VMs.

Discover how to install and configure Ansible, unlocking seamless automation for IT and business development while learning the basic components of Ansible.

Install the latest version of Ansible on the host, generate SSH key pairs, and create a YAML inventory for Ubuntu and Fedora VMs. Configure OpenSSH, run ad hoc commands, and verify the installation in the demo environment with three machines.

Install and configure the OpenSSH server on local and virtual machines, generate SSH key pairs, and copy public keys to hosts for passwordless, secure access for Ansible automation.

Write ansible playbooks with tasks, rules, and roles to manage multiple hosts using inventory, host and group variables, all in YAML, with agentless, Python-based modules.

Learn to create and customize an ansible inventory file, classify hosts by operating system and server type, and verify connectivity with ping tests using Visual Studio Code workflow for inventories.

Explore YAML basics for Ansible, including creating YAML files, mappings, arrays, booleans, line folding, and comments, and use ad hoc commands for tasks like ping, package installation, and file copy.

Learn to configure and run Ansible ad hoc commands against Ubuntu and Fedora hosts via an inventory file, using ping, apt and yum installations, whoami checks, and file copy tasks.

Explore ansible's core features, including playbooks, variables, conditionals, and package managers, building on installation and inventory file setup demonstrated earlier.

Learn to create and execute Ansible playbooks in yaml to configure remote hosts, manage variables, conditions, and package managers using built-in and custom modules.

Create and run an Ansible playbook to install git on Ubuntu and Fedora servers, using YAML, inventory, and become for root, then verify installations with git --version.

Learn how Ansible variables and facts enable flexible, reusable playbooks by defining portable values, using the setup module to gather remote host information, and controlling fact gathering.

Explore configuring and using variables in an Ansible playbook—defining package variables, adding variable files, debugging with the debug task, and registering outputs and the facts variable.

Learn to use Ansible conditionals and when statements to control task execution across hosts, consolidating tasks into a single, efficient playbook for Debian and Red Hat systems.

Learn to automate software installation with apt and yum in an Ansible playbook, updating caches, upgrading packages, and installing or removing software on Debian/Ubuntu and Redhat/Fedora.

Learn to create and run an Ansible playbook with plays and tasks, use vars and facts, and apply OS-based conditional logic to manage packages on remote hosts.

Dive deeper into ansible automation, mastering playbooks, variables, conditionals, and package management, and learn to manage remote servers with shell commands and file handling.

Learn to use Ansible command, shell, and raw modules to customize commands, run tasks on remote hosts, and manage files with file modules, leveraging Python modules and the Ansible API.

View remote host network configurations with Ansible command, shell, and raw modules. Create the Shell underscore commands playbook to copy Hello_world.sh to all hosts and run it via modules.

Explains how the Ansible file module creates directories and files, sets file attributes and rights, and builds symlinks, then removes the directory and its contents on remote hosts.

Discover how to manipulate remote files with Ansible using lineinfile, blockinfile, and replace, including searching, inserting blocks, and applying regex patterns within a playbook.

Learn to manipulate remote files with Ansible using lineinfile, file, blockinfile, and replace modules to create, insert, update, and delete text on remote servers.

Customize shell commands with ansible modules to view remote network configurations and run bash scripts, and manipulate files by creating, editing, deleting, inserting, and replacing text on remote hosts.

Explore how Ansible integrates with other frameworks, including Docker and the EOKA stack, and manage repositories with Ansible to streamline automation across remote servers.

Learn to manage software repositories with Ansible by adding apt and yum repositories on Debian and Red Hat systems, deploying and updating components across remote hosts.

Configure docker repositories on Ubuntu and Fedora using Ansible apt_repository and yum_repository modules in a playbook named repo_management.

Deploy the elk stack with ansible by running elasticsearch, logstash, and kibana in docker containers, pulling images from Docker Hub on Ubuntu and Fedora servers.

Learn to deploy docker on remote hosts with ansible by building a stack playbook, managing ubuntu and fedora packages, and installing docker.

Learn to install the ELK stack with Ansible by pulling Docker images for Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana, and configuring containers, ports, and Python dependencies.

Streamline ansible playbooks by breaking the elk stack and docker installation tasks into smaller component playbooks called from a main file.

Master advanced Ansible features, including templates, roles, tags, and custom modules, and learn to install AWX and Jenkins on remote hosts while automating the EOKA stack and Docker workflows.

Configure and reuse dynamic components with Ansible templates using Jinja and Jinja2 to tailor remote host configurations and playbooks, embracing environment-specific variables across servers.

Use Ansible templates to configure remote network interfaces via playbooks, with Jinja templates and variables for flexible, scalable automation across Debian and Redhat hosts.

Explore how Ansible roles use templates, files, tasks, and variables to deploy OpenStack, enabling modular, reusable rules and scalable playbooks within a structured directory layout.

Learn to create and implement ansible roles for docker and elk stack installations on remote hosts, organize roles with tasks, vars, defaults, and run an integrated playbook via ansible galaxy.

Learn to use Ansible tags to selectively run tasks in a playbook, assign multiple tags, and execute cache updates and get installation on Ubuntu servers.

Build custom modules in Ansible with Python scripts in a library folder relative to a playbook, enabling dynamic OpenStack inventories and json-formatted outputs.

Learn to create a custom Python module named hello world for Ansible, place it in a library, document it, and invoke it with a playbook to run on remote hosts.

Explore Ansible AWX, a web-based UI for automating Ansible with features like job scheduling, inventory management, reporting, and workflow automation; learn how AWX relates to Ansible Tower.

Learn how continuous integration and delivery automate software development with Jenkins, speeding builds, tests, and deployments, and enabling early issue detection and reliable releases.

Install Jenkins on a remote Ubuntu host, unlock with initial admin password, configure plugins, create a freestyle project, and add the Ansible plugin to run the L.K. stack playbook.

Explore integrating Ansible with Jenkins by configuring a freestyle job to run an Ansible playbook with inventory and credentials, monitor builds, and automate future runs on changes.

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