This lab-intensive course is geared toward those responsible for automation of configuration management; consistent and repeatable application deployment; provisioning and deployment of development, testing, and production servers; and integration with DevOps CI/CD workflows. Throughout the course you will explore core Ansible features such as automatic provisioning, configuration management, service deployment and operational processes.

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Learning Objectives

This course is approximately 50% hands-on, combining expert lecture, real-world demonstrations and group discussions with machine-based practical labs and exercises. Working in a hands-on learning environment led by our expert practitioner attendees will explore how to:
Describe Ansible concepts and install Red Hat Ansible Engine (optional – we can pre-install is as well if desired, depending on the audience)
Deploy Ansible and Configure Ansible to manage hosts and run ad hoc Ansible commands.
Implement playbooks
Write a simple Ansible playbook and run it to automate tasks on multiple managed hosts.
Manage variables and facts
Write playbooks that use variables to simplify management of the playbook and facts to reference information about managed hosts.
Implement task control; Manage task control, handlers, and task errors in Ansible playbooks.
Deploy files to managed hosts
Deploy, manage, and adjust files on hosts managed by Ansible.
Manage large projects
Write playbooks that are optimized for larger, more complex projects.
Simplify playbooks with roles
Use Ansible roles to develop playbooks more quickly and to reuse Ansible code.
Troubleshoot Ansible
Troubleshoot playbooks and managed hosts.
Automate Linux administration tasks
Automate common Linux system administration tasks with Ansible

1
  • Ansible Overview

  • Overview of Architecture
    Overview of Deployments
    Inventory

2
  • Deploying Ansible

  • Installing
    Configuration Files
    Running Ad Hoc Commands
    Dynamic Inventory

3
  • Playbooks

  • Writing YAML Files
    Modules

4
  • Variables and Inclusions

  • Variables
    Facts
    Inclusions

5
  • Task Control

  • Constructing Flow Control
    Handlers
    Tags
    Handling Errors

6
  • Jinja2 Templates

  • Jinja2 Templates
    Jinja2 Templates

7
  • Roles

  • Role Structure
    Creating Roles
    Deploying Roles with Ansible Galaxy

8
  • Optimizing Ansible

  • Configuring Connection Types
    Configuring Delegation
    Configuring Parallelism

9
  • Ansible Vault

  • Configuring Ansible Vault
    Executing with Ansible Vault

10
  • Troubleshooting Ansible

  • Troubleshooting Playbooks
    Troubleshooting Managed Hosts

11
  • Ansible Tower

  • Ansible Tower overview
    Installing
    Account management
    Hosts
    Jobs

12
  • Optional: Ansible in a DevOps Environment

  • Provisioning Vagrant Machines
    Deploying Vagrant in a DevOps Environment
    Deploying Docker in a DevOps Environment

Audience

This is an Introductory level course for experienced Linux system administrators, DevOps engineers, infrastructure automation engineers, and systems design engineers. Ideally students should have familiarity with basic Python scripting. Attendees without programming skills can follow along with the scripting portion of the labs.

Language

English

Prerequisites

TTPS4824 Introduction to Python for Networking / SysAdmin TTLX2103 Introduction to Linux | Linux Essentials

$2,195

Length: 3.0 days (24 hours)

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