Course Code: introansautobesp
Duration: 21 hours
Prerequisites:

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.

Course Outline:

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

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

Optimising  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

Optional: Ansible in a DevOps Environment

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