Automation with Ansible (DO407)

COURSE OUTLINE:

Description

In this course, you will learn how to use Ansible for automation, configuration, and management. After learning how install and configure Ansible, you will be guide through the steps to create and run playbooks to configure systems. Additionally, you will discover how manage inventories and encryption for Ansible with Ansible Vault; learn how to deploy Ansible Tower; and, discover how to use Tower to manage systems.ï¿½

Note: You will use Ansible in a DevOps environment with Vagrant.

Audience

System and cloud administrators needing to automate cloud provisioning, configuration management, application deployment, intra-service orchestration, and other ITï¿½needs

Prerequisites

RHCSA in Red Hat Enterprise Linux certification or equivalent experience

Learning Objectives

Automate system administration tasks on managed hosts with Ansible
Write Ansible playbooks to standardize task execution
Centrally manage playbooks and schedule recurring execution through a web interface with Ansible Tower

1. Course Introduction 2. Introducing Ansible

Terminology and architecture of Ansible

3. Deploying Ansible

Install Ansible and run ad hoc commands

4. Implementing Playbooks

Write Ansible plays and execute a playbook

5. Managing Variables and Inclusions

Variable scope and precedence, manage variables and facts in a play, and manage inclusions

6. Implementing Task Control

Manage task control, handlers, and tags in Ansible playbooks

7. Implementing Jinja2 Templates

Implement a Jinja2 template

8. Implementing Roles

Create and manage roles

9. Configuring Complex Playbooks

Configure connection types, delegations, and parallelism

10. Implementing Ansible Vault

Manage encryption with Ansible Vault

11. Troubleshooting Ansible

Troubleshoot the Ansible control machine and managed nodes

12. Implementing Ansible Tower

Implement Ansible Tower

13. Implementing Ansible in a DevOps Environment

Implement Ansible in a DevOps environment using Vagrant

14. Comprehensive Review

Review tasks

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