Ansible Configuration and Management

System administrators and others who need to understand how to automate system and application configuration with Ansible.

System administrators and others who need to understand how to automate system and application configuration with Ansible.

Linux/UNIX administration skills are required.

This course is designed for system administrators who want to automate system and application configuration management with Ansible.

The course focuses on RedHat Linux distributions. Please ensure you confirm the platform you will be using when booking.

Introduction to Ansible
Very brief history and reason for development of Ansible
Brief comparison with Saltstack and Puppet etc
Benefits and limitations of using Ansible

Examples
Deploying configuration of Apache server
Managing changes in the configuration

Playbooks
Roles
Inclusion
Variables
Filters
Conditionals
Loops
Accelerated Mode
Asynchronous Actions
Pooling
Dry Run
Delegation, Roling Updates and Local Actions
Error Handling
Lookups
Prompts
Tags
Vault
Running playbooks interactively

Dealing with Modules
Installing Modules
Overview of commonly used modules

Other
Ansible Galaxy
AWX Project
Testing Strategies
YAML Syntax