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Introduction to Ansible

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Last Update October 1, 2024

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About This Course

Introduction to Ansible | Automation with Ansible is a three-day, lab-intensive course geared for toward those responsible for automation of configuration management; consistent and repeatable application deployment; provisioning and deployment of development, testing, and production servers; and (optionally) integration with DevOps CI/CD workflows. Throughout the course participants will explore core Ansible features such as automatic provisioning, configuration management, service deployment and operational processes. This course also covers enterprise topics such as managing sensitive data (Ansible Vault), Ansible Tower, and integrating with Docker (optional). Attendees might include Linux system administrators, DevOps engineers, infrastructure automation engineers, and systems design engineers.

Course Outline

Please note that this list of topics is based on our standard course offering, evolved from typical industry uses and trends. We’ll work with you to tune this course and level of coverage to target the skills you need most.

Ansible Overview
- Overview of Architecture
- Overview of Deployments
- Inventory
Deploying Ansible
- Installing
- Configuration Files
- Running Ad Hoc Commands
- Dynamic Inventory
Playbooks
- Writing YAML Files
- Modules
Variables and Inclusions
- Variables
- Facts
- Inclusions

Please note that this list of topics is based on our standard course offering, evolved from typical industry uses and trends. We will work with you to tune this course and level of coverage to target the skills you need most.

Task Control
- Constructing Flow Control
- Handlers
- Tags
- Handling Errors
Jinja2 Templates
- Jinja2 Templates
- Jinja2 Templates
Roles
- Role Structure
- Creating Roles
- Deploying Roles with Ansible Galaxy
Optimizing Ansible
- Configuring Connection Types
- Configuring Delegation
- Configuring Parallelism
Ansible Vault
- Configuring Ansible Vault
- Executing with Ansible Vault
Troubleshooting Ansible
- Troubleshooting Playbooks
- Troubleshooting Managed Hosts
Ansible Tower
- Ansible Tower overview
- Installing
- Account management
- Hosts
- Jobs

Bonus / Time-Permitting: Ansible in a DevOps Environment

Provisioning Vagrant Machines
Deploying Vagrant in a DevOps Environment
Deploying Docker in a DevOps Environment

Learning Objectives

Describe Ansible concepts and install Red Hat Ansible Engine (optional – we can pre-install is as well if desired, depending on the audience)

Deploy Ansible and Configure Ansible to manage hosts and run ad hoc Ansible commands.

Implement playbooks

Write a simple Ansible playbook and run it to automate tasks on multiple managed hosts.

Manage variables and facts

Write playbooks that use variables to simplify management of the playbook and facts to reference information about managed hosts.

Implement task control; Manage task control, handlers, and task errors in Ansible playbooks.

Deploy files to managed hosts

Deploy, manage, and adjust files on hosts managed by Ansible.

Manage large projects

Write playbooks that are optimized for larger, more complex projects.

Simplify playbooks with roles

Use Ansible roles to develop playbooks more quickly and to reuse Ansible code.

Troubleshoot Ansible

Troubleshoot playbooks and managed hosts.

Automate Linux administration tasks

Automate common Linux system administration tasks with Ansible.

Pre-requisites

This is an Introductory level course for experienced Linux system administrators, DevOps engineers, infrastructure automation engineers, and systems design engineers. Ideally students should have familiarity with basic Python scripting. Attendees without programming skills can follow along with the scripting portion of the labs.

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