Clouds

Introduction to Ansible

$2295

3 days

2025-03-03

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Essential Skills Gained

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Understand the Basics of Ansible: Gain a solid introduction to Ansible, including its purpose, components, and core concepts.

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Learn YAML Fundamentals: Understand YAML syntax and its role as the backbone of Ansible configurations and playbooks.

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Create and Manage Inventories: Build and manage inventories to define target hosts for Ansible automation.

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Run Playbooks for Automation: Execute Ansible playbooks to automate tasks across multiple systems efficiently.

Format

3 day course with lecture and hands-on labs.

Audience

System Administrators aiming to automate repetitive tasks and streamline system configurations.

DevOps Engineers looking to integrate Ansible into CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure automation.

IT Operations Professionals managing large-scale environments and seeking to improve operational efficiency.

Cloud Engineers interested in automating deployments and managing cloud infrastructure with Ansible.

Network Administrators exploring Ansible's capabilities for managing network devices and configurations.

Technical Managers wanting to understand Ansible’s potential for team and project efficiency.

Description

This course delivers the **essential, foundational skills** required to succeed with Ansible, no matter your starting point or goals. This course covers the core concepts and techniques needed for automating server configurations, deploying applications, managing cloud infrastructure, or orchestrating complex workflows. You’ll learn to write powerful playbooks, manage inventories, and automate tasks using key modules. Through hands-on labs and practical examples, you’ll gain the crucial knowledge to confidently work with Ansible in any environment or role. If you’re ready to master the must-have skills that form the backbone of all Ansible use cases, this course is the perfect starting point.

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Welcome to Alta3 Research Labs!

  • 💻 Exploring Your Lab Environment

  • 💻 Meet VIRGIL: Your AI Lab Coach

  • 💻 Register for Polls

Required Tools

  • 💻 Vim: A Modal Text Editor

  • 💻 Efficient CLI Usage with Tmux

Source Code Management

  • 💬 What to Choose?

  • 💻 SCM Option #1 - GitHub

  • 💻 SCM Option #2 - GitLab

Ansible Overview

  • 💬 Introduction to Ansible

Day 1- Ansible Basics

  • 💬 Introduction to YAML

  • 💻 Making an Inventory

  • 💻 Running a Playbook

  • 💻 ansible.cfg setup

  • 💻 Looping Tasks

  • 💻 Setting Variables: Part 1

  • 💻 Setting Variables: Part 2

Day 2- Critical Modules and Keywords

  • 💻 Ansible Module - copy

  • 💻 Ansible Module - file

  • 💻 Ansible Module - get_url and uri

  • 💬 Templating with Jinja

  • 💻 Ansible Module - template

  • 💻 When Condition

  • 💻 Playbook Tags

Day 3- Advanced Ansible

  • 💻 Ansible Handlers and Listeners

  • 💻 Ansible Error Handling

  • 💻 Ansible Lookup Plugin

  • 💻 Ansible Callback Plugins

  • 💬 Collections, Roles, and Ansible Galaxy

  • 💻 Using Collections

  • 💻 Using Roles

  • 💻 Making Roles

  • 💻 Making Collections

  • 💻 Ansible Vault

Additional Ansible Tools

  • 💻 Roles and Molecule

  • 💻 Ansible Module - script

  • 💻 Writing an Ansible Module with Python

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