Automation with Ansible

Course Code: 2010

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Overview

Ansible is an open-source software that allows developers to automate application development and deployment, configuration management, and software provisioning. Ansible connects via remote APIs, remote PowerShell, or SSH.

Cognixia’s Automation with Ansible course is intended to help Linux system developers and administrators with automating application deployment, configuration, provisioning, and orchestration.

During this training course, participants will learn to automate tasks by writing Ansible playbooks and running them to validate the accurate configuration and deployment of servers. Further, participants will also learn how to approach automating common Linux system administration tasks by studying real examples of Ansible automation.

This course is based on Red Hat® Ansible Engine 2.7.

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Course Delivery

This course is available in the following formats:

Live Classroom
Duration: 4 days

Live Virtual Classroom
Duration: 4 days

What You'll learn

Installing Ansible/Red Hat Ansible Engine on control nodes
Creating and updating inventories of managed hosts
Managing the nodes and devices connected to them
Using ad-hoc commands with Ansible playbooks
Writing executable and scalable Ansible playbooks
Using Ansible Vault for protecting sensitive data
Re-using code and simplifying playbook development through Ansible roles

Outline

Module 1: Introduction to Ansible

Describe Ansible concepts and install Red Hat Ansible Engine

Module 2: Deploy Ansible

Configure Ansible to manage hosts and run ad-hoc Ansible commands

Module 3: Implement playbooks

Write a simple Ansible playbook and run it to automate tasks on multiple managed hosts

Module 4: Manage variables and facts

Write playbooks that use variables to simplify management of the playbook and facts to reference information about managed hosts

Module 5: Implement task control

Manage task control, handlers and task errors in Ansible playbooks

Module 6: Deploy files to managed hosts

Deploy, manage and adjust files on hosts managed by Ansible

Module 7: Manage large projects

Write playbooks that are optimized for larger, more complex projects

Module 8: Simplify playbooks with roles

Use Ansible roles to develop playbooks more quickly and to reuse Ansible code

Module 9: Troubleshoot Ansible

Troubleshoot playbooks and managed hosts

Module 10: Automate Linux administration tasks

Automate common Linux system administration tasks with Ansible

Module 11: Comprehensive review

Demonstrate skills learned in this course by installing, optimizing, and configuring Ansible for the management of managed hosts

Prerequisites

Participants need to be a Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA), Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE), or have substantial knowledge and experience with Red Hat®Enterprise Linux® equivalent to the certification.