Learn Ansible From Ground Up: The Devops Guide

Learn how to integrate ansible with vagrant to provision multiple virtual machines on a virtualbox setup using a yaml playbook.

Learn how to integrate vagrant with ansible as a provisioning tool, write a yaml playbook to configure a web server, ensure hddvd is present and service started and enabled.

Bootstrap a test machine with an Ansible playbook to configure the observer, install the web server, ensure the service starts on boot, and compare with shell scripts.

Discover how to run ad hoc Ansible tasks without playbooks, manage a three‑machine lab (client, web server, database), and deploy a lamp stack using MariaDB on the database server.

Learn to deploy and configure MariaDB with Ansible, creating a database server via Vagrant, setting the root password, and creating a code igniter user and app database.

Install php 7 by adding epel and webtatic repositories, configuring gpg keys, and using ansible's yum_repository to manage packages; create a developers group and a user for the app.

Learn how to manage files and directories with Ansible on remote systems, query attributes with stat, inspect permissions and ownership, and transfer files using copy.

Learn how to upload and download files and directories with Ansible, using file, copy, fetch, synchronize, and parsing modules, and manage ownership, permissions, and symbolic links.

Learn to manage cron jobs with the Ansible cron module, creating, updating, and deleting scheduled tasks across servers using playbooks, with time fields and user controls.

Learn to run ansible playbooks with specific remote users and password prompts. Explore inventory targeting, limit options, and playbook variables, both inline and external, to orchestrate remote configurations.

Learn to install php7 on a lamp stack with Ansible playbooks, using loops and become to deploy Apache, MySQL, and CodeIgniter across two machines; leverage rsync for efficient file transfer.

Learn to manage Apache rewrite rules with Ansible lineinfile and regex patterns, ensuring mod_rewrite is enabled in the vhost configuration. Apply idempotent tasks and restart Apache to apply changes.

Learn how to use ansible playbooks to manage a lamp stack, restart apache on config changes via handlers and notify, and enforce pre_tasks, post_tasks, and ownership of code.

Configure a lamp stack with ansible playbooks using variables and vars files to avoid hard-coded credentials. Create MariaDB databases and users, set privileges, and apply across hosts.

Use ansible playbooks to add test data to the database by uploading and executing SQL to create a table and insert records, then configure CodeIgniter with ginger2 templates.

Add sample pages to a CodeIgniter app using an Ansible playbook. Copy models, controllers, and views with a with_items loop, configure the database, and verify data retrieval through the app.

Master how ansible handlers respond to task notifications, triggering multiple restarts (apache and engine X) at play end, and manage variables with playbook vars, vars_files, and --extra-vars.

master advanced ansible playbook features, including prompts for sensitive data, vault encryption, and default values, and use gathered facts like kernel version with the setup module to tailor tasks.

Store command output in a variable using Ansible, then use conditionals to decide between hosts file or DNS for hostname resolution, enabling dynamic playbooks with registers and shell tasks.

Learn how exit status signals command success or failure, how to use Ansible's failed when for manual failure, and how to handle stdout and stderr when running scripts.

Learn how to control change reporting in Ansible playbooks for arbitrary commands. Use changed_when with pip_output to report changes only when packages download.

Discover how to run Ansible playbooks locally using connection=local, test on the local machine, and manage host and group variables with inventory, group_vars, and host_vars.

Learn to speed up deployments by disabling facts gathering with gather_facts: no in Ansible playbooks, and securely store sensitive data using Ansible Vault with encrypted variables.

Execute playbooks partially in Ansible by tagging tasks and using skip tags, grouping tasks into blocks with when conditions, and applying rescue and always for robust exception handling.

learners will discover how to reuse Ansible playbooks with include files to modularize tasks, configure clients, and create generic playbooks that scale for large environments.

Learn how to use include on demand in Ansible to modularize playbooks by conditionally including tasks, files, and handlers, including DNS settings.

Explore how to scale Ansible deployments for complex infrastructures by using roles, include files, and galaxy-backed dependencies, with main.yml tasks and bootstrap playbooks.

Learn to manage large environments with Ansible by using roles, include files, and handlers, deploy a lamp stack with modular playbooks, and understand variable precedence and Ansible Galaxy integration.

Explore how to use Ansible Galaxy to browse, install, manage dependencies for community roles, and deploy WordPress with a community role, configuring database prerequisites.

Explore why Ansible Tower improves enterprise automation with a graphical, secure web interface and configurable job reporting. Learn how Tower handles notifications, scheduling, and multi-user access for teams running playbooks.

Explore how Ansible Tower runs playbooks inside jobs, groups them into products, and uses inventories and credentials. Configure fine-grained access with organizations, teams, and users.

Explore Ansible Tower in this lab by creating a project, inventory, and a job template to run a playbook with credentials; monitor results via the GUI.

Master ansible basics from installation to writing and running playbooks. Deploy and configure servers with Ansible commands, manage variables and roles, and complete a WordPress lab using Ansible Tower.