• Basic Linux sysadmin skills

• The course is designed for students who have little or no experience with Ansible, but are familiar with Linux systems administration concepts
• No programming or previous automation experience is required.
• If you've never logged into a Linux shell and run commands before, you will learn the Ansible syntax but you may not understand the 'why' behind the tasks that we configure. We try to explain all systems concept that we cover, but we aren't starting from the beginning with Linux in this course.

Ansible Training

students will learn to automate system administration tasks on managed hosts with Ansible, learn how to write Ansible playbooks to standardize task execution, centrally manage playbooks and schedule recurring execution through a web interface with Red Hat速 Ansible Tower. Students will also learn to manage encryption for Ansible with Ansible Vault, deploy Ansible Tower and use it to manage systems, and use Ansible in a DevOps environment with Vagrant.

Course content summary

• Install and troubleshoot Ansible on central nodes and managed hosts
• Use Ansible to run ad-hoc commands and playbooks to automate tasks
• Write effective Ansible playbooks
• Protect encrypted data needed for tasks with Ansible Vault
• Use Ansible Tower to more easily manage enterprise Ansible deployment
• Work with Ansible in conjunction with Vagrant in a DevOps environmentt

Course introduction

• Introduce and review the course.

Introduce Ansible

• Describe the terminology and architecture of Ansible.

Deploy Ansible

• Install Ansible and run ad hoc commands.

Implement playbooks

• Write Ansible plays and execute a playbook.

Manage variables and inclusions

• Describe variable scope and precedence, manage variables and facts in a play, and manage inclusions.

Implement task control

• Manage task control, handlers, and tags in Ansible playbooks.

Implement Jinja2 templates

• Implement a Jinja2 template.

Implement roles

• Create and manage roles.

Configure complex playbooks

• Configure connection types, delegations, and parallelism.

Implement Ansible Vault

• Manage encryption with Ansible Vault.

Troubleshoot Ansible

• Troubleshoot the Ansible control machine and managed nodes..

Implement Ansible Tower

• Implement Ansible Tower.

Implement Ansible in a DevOps environment

• Implement Ansible in a DevOps environment using Vagrant.

Comprehensive review

• Review tasks from the Automation with Ansible course.