Ansible for engineers

Description

Ansible for engineers training course description

An introduction to automation using ansible. Ansible is a general purpose IT automation platform that can be use for a number of purposes. The course covers configuration management, cloud provisioning and application deployment with ansible. Hands on sessions follow all major sections.

What will you learn

• Install ansible.
• Automate tasks with ansible.
• Write ansible playbooks.

Ansible for engineers training course details

Ansible for engineers training course contents

• What is ansible?

The language, the engine, the framework. Uses of ansible, orchestration.
Hands on Installing ansible.

• Ansible architecture

ible architecture Controlling machines, nodes, Agentless, SSH, modules, JSON protocol. Configuration management, inventories, playbooks, modules, roles.
Hands on Getting started, running ad hoc commands.

• Ansible and Vagrant

Prototyping and testing.
Hands on Using ansible with Vagrant.

• Ad hoc commands

Parallelism, shell commands, managing files and directories, file transfer, package management, manage user and groups, deploying applications, service management, background jobs, checking log files, managing cron jobs.
Hands on Using ansible with Vagrant.

• Playbooks

ansible-playbook, users, sudo, YAML, plays, tasks, handlers, modules.
Hands on Running playbooks.

• More playbooks

Handlers, variables, environmental variables, playbook variables, inventory variables, variable scope and precedence, accessing variables, facts, ansible vault. Conditionals, wait_for.
Hands on Using variables and conditions in playbooks.

• Roles and includes

Dynamic includes, Handler includes, playbook includes. Roles, role parts: handlers, files, templates, cross platform roles, ansible galaxy.
Hands on includes example, building roles.

• Inventories

/etc/ansible/hosts, inventory variables, static inventories, dynamic inventories.
Hands on Inventories and variables.

• Miscellanea

Individual server cookbooks, Main playbook for configuring all servers.
Hands onPlaybooks.