Ansible Beginner to Pro With Free Lab

Write and run Ansible playbooks in YAML to define hosts, tasks, and roles. Use inventory groups, handlers, variables, and the ansible-playbook command to install, start, or remove Apache on servers.

Learn how Ansible gathers facts from target hosts using the setup module, collecting operating system, hardware, networking, mounts, and IPv4 details as variables for tasks and templates.

Explore Ansible variables across inventory and playbook levels, including environment, group, and extra variables, and learn to reference, override, and manage values from inventory sources.

Learn to use tags to selectively run or skip tasks in an Ansible playbook, assign multiple tags, and leverage skip tags for targeted execution.

Master loops in Ansible to run the same task across multiple values, using the loop, range, and items methods to create or remove users and manage groups.

Capture task output with register in Ansible and store it in a variable like uptime result, then inspect stdout and return code for conditional use.

Master loop control in Ansible by naming the loop variable, using inventory hostname as the display, indexing item position, pausing between iterations, and using until conditions.

Learn how to apply conditions in Ansible using the when statement, leveraging changed and rc values, and control task execution with become and loops.

Learn how blocks group tasks, apply block-level conditions, and use rescue and always for error handling in Ansible, with facts guiding runs on CentOS or Ubuntu, with root access.

Learn to generate per-node configuration with Ansible templates using Jinja2, via the template module and a templates directory, rendering dynamic HTML pages with inventory and play variables.

Explore Ansible handlers, change-triggered task execution, and the listen keyword to run multiple actions like restarting httpd and sending email when HTML deployment changes.

Explore pre and post tasks in Ansible playbooks by changing a ticket status to in progress before the main task and resetting it with notifications after, demonstrated in a workflow.

master Ansible roles to organize tasks, variables, and templates into reusable components; set up role directories with tasks and optional handlers, templates, defaults, and meta, then call roles in playbooks.

Learn to send an email using Ansible with the mail module, configure SMTP host, port, credentials, recipient, and dynamic subject and body from variables, on the controller node.

Learn how to secure Ansible data with vaults by encrypting entire inventories, playbooks, and specific strings, and manage vaults with view, edit, rekey, and vault password prompts.

Explore the AWX user interface overview, from login and dashboard to inventories, projects, hosts, templates, and credentials. Use RBAC, scheduling, workflow approvals, and job status to manage automation.

Learn to run playbooks in AWX or Ansible Tower by creating inventories and groups, adding hosts, setting up projects and credentials, building a job template, and launching and monitoring jobs.

Create complex workflows in AWX or Ansible Tower by chaining playbooks into a workflow template, with inventory, projects, job templates, on-success and on-failure paths, Jira bugs, and production deployment.

Understand how workflow approvals in AWX govern production deployments, contrasting development flexibility with production gating, set up approver teams and email notifications, and configure approval steps in a template.

Set up email alerts for task start, success, and failure by configuring an SMTP email notification in the notifications section, testing delivery, and enabling alerts in templates.

Use rest apis to view endpoints, generate a token, and launch a job template. Send monitoring alerts to the api to trigger remediation through bearer token authentication and Postman workflows.

Set up an ansible environment to automate aws with boto3 and the amazon.aws collection, configure credentials, and run a playbook that retrieves ec2 instance IDs and IP addresses.

learn to create ec2 instances using an ansible playbook with roles for ec2 creation, key management, and connectivity, then manage runtime ip addresses with add_host and set_fact.