Learn Ansible Essentials Fast and Hands-On

Learn how ansible inventories organize hosts into groups and nested groups using ini or yaml formats, with ranges, and how to test them via ad hoc commands using -i.

Learn to build Ansible ad-hoc commands for single tasks, targeting hosts with -m and -a, and using -I and -u for inventory and remote users. See when to use playbooks.

Explore Ansible conditionals, handlers, and blocks in playbooks, using variables, when conditions, notifications, and rescue and always sections to manage tasks.

Explore Ansible roles, their components and placement, and learn how to create, import, or include roles with Ansible Galaxy Init, pre-test and post-test sections.

Discover how to find and use third-party Ansible roles with Ansible Galaxy. Learn to search, install, and manage roles via the Galaxy CLI and understand role documentation.

Learn to manage services with Ansible using the service module, controlling start, stop, restart, and enable at boot, with options like sleep and service names in a practical playbook demo.

Learn storage management with Ansible by creating partitions, volume groups, and logical volumes, then formatting a file system and mounting it to a mount point.

Learn to configure networks and firewalls with Ansible using the network and firewall modules, including setting IPs, gateways, DNS, and zone rules on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Learn patch management with Ansible by configuring repositories, patching services to latest, and gathering installed packages with package_facts to reduce CVEs and the attack surface across large environments.