Ansible Essentials

This course is designed as a journey through configuring a realistic application stack from the ground up using Ansible.

8 hours
English
Online

duration: 8 hours
location: Online
Language: English
Code: ADM-020
price: € 250 *

Available sessions

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Description

This course is designed as a journey through configuring a realistic application stack from the ground up using Ansible and working with your colleagues, playing different roles in the topology. It is divided into nine sections starting with the initial installation and general concepts. Each section has practice sessions and exercises to help you further strengthen your skills

The final goal of the training is to have a working HTTP server load-balancing topology.

Objectives

How to use Ansible to automate tasks
How to create playbooks and configurations for Ansible
Understand how to benefit from Ansible automation
Purpose solutions based on Ansible
Debug/understand an Ansible project designed by someone else

Target Audience

This training is developed for those who want to learn how to use Ansible in a DevOps environment

Prerequisites

Basic knowledge of shell script, networking and Linux OS

Roadmap

Ansible Fundamentals

What is Ansible?
Where does Ansible fit in a DevOps environment?
How could Ansible help you automate different tasks?

Key Components

Playbooks: The main ansible component
Roles: Reusable components
Tasks: The main component of a Playbook
Inventory: Our targets

Installing Ansible

Using distro package manager
Cloning the GIT directly

How Ansible Works

Where does each component fit?
Good practices, from a DevOps perspective
Practical examples/scenarios

Ansible Inventory

Hosts, groups, dynamic inventory in a cloud-based environment

Ansible Modules

Modules already available in Ansible
Most used modules
Examples, why not to write code when there is already a module for that

Ansible Tower/AWX

A brief description of the Open Source AWX / Tower
Explaining the license and advantages of using AWX or Tower

Basic Examples

Running commands, doing basic sanity checks
Configuring the inventory
Running commands on remote hosts

Hands on Practice

Executing a playbook on your own host

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