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IT & Software Network & Security Ansible

Learning Path: Automation with Ansible, Puppet, and Salt

Use popular automation tools for a scalable, reliable, and secure IT environment.
Rating: 4.0 out of 54.0 (919 ratings)
8,222 students
Created by Packt Publishing
Last updated 5/2018
English
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What you'll learn

  • Configure and manage your infrastructure using Ansible Playbooks
  • Create task blocks and choose the right Ansible Strategy for the job
  • Understand the nuances of Ansible 2 and its new features
  • Write efficient, reusable, and modularized Puppet code
  • Write extensive tests for the code and run automated builds using Jenkins Integration
  • Create a pipeline for effective code management
  • Understand Salt’s state system and write and manage complex states
  • Use and react to real-time events across an infrastructure

Requirements

  • Basic idea of system administration and Linux systems
  • Workstation with Vagrant and VirtualBox installed

Description

It is no surprise that automation and orchestration make life very easy, be it a small organization or a large-scale industry that houses hundreds of servers. IT automation is essentially the ability to orchestrate and integrate tools, people, and processes through a certain workflow. Automation with Ansible, Puppet, and Salt is a Learning Path that looks at the most popular tools for automation, their advantages, and how you can use each of these tools to automate your IT infrastructure effectively.

Packt’s Video Learning Paths are a series of individual video products put together in a logical and stepwise manner such that each video builds on the skills learned in the video before it.

In this one, we'll cover the why and how of Ansible, Puppet, and Salt, in a step-by-step, progressive manner. Initially, we focus on Ansible. You will learn how to manage environments and implement strategies in Ansible and be introduced to Ansible Galaxy and Tower, which are Ansible's enterprise tooling for supporting large-scale infrastructure. We then move on to learning Puppet. Puppet is a configuration management tool that allows you to automate all your IT configurations. Using Puppet you can control each Puppet agent in a network. You will learn how to do so by first understanding the Puppet ecosystem and then detailed topics such as configuration and management of Puppet servers, environments, module repositories, and reusable modules. With Salt too, we use a similar approach. We start from the basics, such as installing, configuring, deploying, and managing a web application to advanced concepts like Docker containers across multiple systems behind a HAProxy load balancer.

By the end of this Learning Path, you will be able to build and manage your infrastructure and fully utilize its potential.

This course is authored by some of the best instructors in this field:

David Cohen worked as a system administrator, platform engineer, DevOps engineer, and software developer in everything from small businesses to growing companies (100+ employees) and large tech/engineering firms (10,000+ employees). He owns a YouTube channel, where he has helped tens of thousands of people learn the basics (and not-so-basics) of system administration, DevOps, and software engineering.

Anirban Saha is an infrastructure professional with more than six and half years' experience in infrastructure management at various industries and organizations ranging from early startups to corporate environments. He has worked extensively with configuration management and automation tools including Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Saltstack, and Terraform, to name a few.

Seth House is an active member of the Salt community for the past five years and has worked at SaltStack for four years. He wrote the salt-api and also contributed to many core parts of Salt. He has collaborated with the Salt community and started the Salt Formulas organization.

Who this course is for:

  • This course is ideal for system administration and IT professionals who are looking at automating their organization’s infrastructure.

Course content

3 sections • 95 lectures • 13h 55m total length

  • Preview04:25
  • What Is Ansible?
    03:29
  • Why Ansible?
    03:09
  • Demonstration – From Bash to Ansible
    19:28
  • Course Layout
    02:54
  • Basic Ansible Vocabulary
    02:53
  • New Features in Ansible 2.0
    03:30
  • Preview03:02
  • Installing Ansible
    05:48
  • Bleeding-Edge Ansible Installation
    03:28
  • Setting up our Test Environment
    07:33
  • Target Machine Requirements
    03:07
  • Preview05:16
  • Ansible Hosts Inventory File
    05:19
  • Ad-Hoc Commands
    07:54
  • Introduction top playbooks
    19:40
  • Playbook Structure
    11:16
  • Introduction to Modules
    06:01
  • Common Modules
    11:29
  • Variables and Facts
    17:55
  • Real-Life Playbook: Mattermost Deployment
    Preview12:02
  • Real-Life Playbook Walkthrough
    14:43
  • Preview13:06
  • Conditionals and Control Flow
    04:52
  • Templating, Control Flow, and Iteration in Jinja2
    07:37
  • YAML Basics
    04:37
  • Ansible Blocks
    03:59
  • Performance and Execution Strategies
    08:10
  • Ansible Galaxy
    04:58
  • Security
    04:13
  • Preview03:01
  • Ansible AWS Demo
    25:10
  • Ansible Tower
    02:30

  • Preview04:45
  • Installing and Setting Up the Working Environment
    11:21
  • Preview04:57
  • Puppet Components and Terminologies
    04:58
  • Understanding the Puppet Run Cycle
    03:48
  • Installing the Puppet Components
    06:06
  • Puppet in Action
    08:29
  • Overview of the Puppet Language
    12:47
  • Preview09:42
  • Introduction to Community Modules
    07:15
  • Managing Module Dependencies and librarian-puppet
    05:21
  • Managing Environments with r10k
    14:08
  • Understanding roles and Profiles
    10:04
  • Writing and Managing a Module
    12:36
  • Understanding and Using Hiera
    13:37
  • Preview03:58
  • Testing Puppet Syntax with puppet-lint
    08:40
  • Writing Unit Tests with rspec-puppet
    16:00
  • Writing Tests with Beaker Using Serverspec
    09:38
  • Writing Tests with test-kitchen Using Serverspec
    09:48
  • Publishing Modules to Puppet Forge with puppet-blacksmith
    06:15
  • Configuring and Using Jenkins to Run the Test Suites
    07:12
  • Using Jenkins to Create a Code Management Workflow
    13:35

  • Preview02:01
  • The Philosophy of Salt
    02:59
  • How Salt Communicates?
    07:14
  • Installing Salt
    05:18
  • Configuring Salt
    09:54
  • Key Acceptance and Encryption
    09:10
  • Preview10:20
  • Execution Module Basics
    14:05
  • Common Execution Modules
    16:26
  • Call from Master or Minions
    10:17
  • Preview06:05
  • Our First State
    14:21
  • Dissect State Functions
    11:35
  • Execution Flow of a State Run
    07:12
  • Debugging States
    05:16
  • Preview05:26
  • How to Write Reusable States?
    12:35
  • How to Write Maintainable States?
    17:38
  • YAML and Jinja Best Practices and Gotchas
    05:36
  • Configuring States Using Pillar
    20:11
  • Learning Salt Formulas
    09:10
  • Debugging Jinja
    05:35
  • Preview09:48
  • Defining, Enforcing, and Debugging Execution Orders
    16:14
  • Conditional and Branching Logic During a State Run
    13:17
  • Debugging a State Run
    09:54
  • Sharing Data between Systems with Salt Mine
    06:43
  • Using Salt Orchestrate to Manage Complex State Runs
    09:00
  • Preview05:19
  • Sending Custom Events
    06:22
  • Listening to Events and Trigger Actions with Salt's Reactor
    12:04
  • Integrating Salt with External Tools Using Events
    05:33
  • Sending Events Using Beacon Modules
    09:45
  • How to Debug the Reactor and Best Practices?
    04:53
  • Installing and Configuring Salt-API
    Preview13:34
  • Exploring rest_cherrypy
    14:47
  • More rest_cherrypy Features
    15:05
  • Using Salt-API to Integrate with External Systems
    10:22
  • Wrapping Up and Further Scope
    03:04

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