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IT & SoftwareOther IT & SoftwareAnsible

Mastering Ansible

A complete guide to configuration management and orchestration with Ansible.
Rating: 4.5 out of 54.5 (8,505 ratings)
39,976 students
Created by Chris Lunsford
Last updated 12/2015
English
English, Indonesian [Auto], 

What you'll learn

  • Execute ad-hoc commands against servers using Ansible
  • Write Ansible configuration playbooks to deploy a 3-tier web application
  • Configure Ansible roles with tasks, handlers, files, templates, and default variables
  • Write operational playbooks to check cluster status and perform a cluster restart.
  • Optimize Ansible playbooks to reduce playbook execution time.
  • Test and troubleshoot Ansible playbook execution.

Requirements

  • You should have a Linux or Mac OS X computer, or access to at lease one Linux virtual machine for installing Ansible.
  • You'll need a code editor or IDE of your choice.
  • You'll need a terminal and ssh client for running Ansible against target hosts.
  • You should have access to 5 Linux servers (bare-metal or virtual machine) if you want to setup the course environment and follow along step-by-step.

Description

Mastering Ansible is a step-by-step journey of learning Ansible for configuration management and orchestration.

The course is designed as a journey through configuring a realistic application stack from the ground up. Instead of going page-by-page through the Ansible documentation, topics are ordered to align with the growing complexity of our application as we build it up and refactor it.

In addition to the core concepts of configuration with Ansible, we spend time on building tools to help us maintain and troubleshoot our application. The goal is to have a workflow where all of the configuration and troubleshooting is done through ansible playbooks that can be committed to a repository and improved over time.

The course is divided into 6 sections, starting with initial installation and foundational concepts. Starting in section 3, we build up a sample application environment layer-by-layer, learning a new concept in each lecture. After the application is up and running, we refactor our setup in section 4 with an emphasis on modularity and encapsulation. In section 5, we optimize our code and learn about techniques to reduce the playbook execution time. The course finishes with a final section on troubleshooting and testing.

For each lecture, we introduce a new Ansible concept and apply it to our playbooks. For most lectures, we execute the new concept in the demo environment so you can see what the output should look like. In the notes of each lecture, you'll find a link to the relevant documentation pages, along with a snapshot of the codebase at the end of that lecture.

This course was built with Ansible version 1.9.3, applied to a 3-tiered web application environment leveraging NGINX, Apache2, Python, and MySQL on Ubuntu Linux servers. We do not cover administering Windows servers in this course.

This course is designed as an introduction to Ansible, but also as a guide for engineers interested in configuration management, orchestration, infrastructure-as-code, and devops principles.

Who this course is for:

  • The course is designed for students who have little or no experience with Ansible, but are familiar with Linux systems administration concepts.
  • No programming or previous automation experience is required.
  • If you've never logged into a Linux shell and run commands before, you will learn the Ansible syntax but you may not understand the 'why' behind the tasks that we configure. We try to explain all systems concept that we cover, but we aren't starting from the beginning with Linux in this course.

Instructor

Chris Lunsford
Software Founder, Developer, Operations Engineer
Chris Lunsford
  • 4.5 Instructor Rating
  • 8,501 Reviews
  • 39,975 Students
  • 1 Course

I am an IT professional with a decade of experience in network, datacenter, cloud and systems operations. My expertise is in applying software development practices to infrastructure operations.

In the early days of my IT career, I worked at a large networking company administering devices to support Service Providers in the US and Canada. After several years of doing test and validation for SP Core Networks, I worked a project on a recently announced Data Center compute product and got hooked on Data Center technology. I moved on to support Data Center Solutions and became an expert on the full Data Center stack: firewalls, load-balancers, compute, network, storage, and virtualization. The balance of my time at the company was spent building out a major hosted cloud effort based on OpenStack, integrating principles and tools from the emerging DevOps movement.

I left corporate life to co-found a small software company, focused on reducing the pain of being an operations engineer in Cloud and Data Center environments. I teach on Udemy to help transfer my own lessons learned to others who are faced with managing complex server and network environments, and to explore ways to integrate software practice and lean methodologies with IT operations.

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