Learning Ansible

1hBeginner2024-10-18

Authors

Greg Sowell

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Course details

Ansible is a popular open-source tool that provides automation, configuration management, and orchestration all in one. In this course, instructor Greg Sowell introduces Ansible and explains the many reasons that system administrators and DevOps engineers choose to keep Ansible in their IT tool kit. Learn how to install Ansible in different environments and work with hosts, variables, inventories, and playbooks. Practice your new deployment and playbook writing skills with the exercise challenges at the end of each section. Along the way, Greg reviews various use cases and practical examples to highlight how Ansible can solve a variety of real-world problems more effectively and efficiently.

Learning objectives
Understand the basics of Ansible and its advantages.
Install Ansible in different environments.
Work with hosts, variables, inventories, and playbooks.
Use Ansible for system configuration management.
Create your own Ansible playbook.

Skills covered

AnsibleRed HatDevOps ToolsDevOps FoundationsDevOpsLearning

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Learning Ansible
02 - What you should know

1. Ansible Foundations

03 - What is Ansible
04 - Ansible architecture
05 - Ansible core, community, and Navigator
06 - What are execution environments

2. Ansible Base Components

07 - Playbooks
08 - Playbook components
09 - Inventories

3. Install Ansible

10 - Install Ansible on Linux

4. Create Your First Ansible Playbook

11 - Choose your editor
12 - First playbook
13 - Create inventory
14 - Key versus password authentication
15 - Run a playbook

5. Ansible Use Cases

16 - Information gathering via facts
17 - Simple config management
18 - Idempotence
19 - Using variables, conditionals, and loops
20 - AWX and derivatives

Conclusion

21 - Continue with an Ansible advanced course