Course Outline
Introduction to Ansible
- An overview of Ansible's history and the motivation behind its development
- A brief comparison with tools like Saltstack and similar alternatives
- Key benefits and limitations of using Ansible
Quick Examples
- Deploying Apache server configurations
- Managing configuration changes
Playbooks
- Roles
- Inclusion mechanisms
- Variables
- Filters
- Conditional logic
- Loops
- Accelerated Mode
- Asynchronous actions
- Polling
- Dry run capabilities
- Delegation, rolling updates, and local actions
- Error handling
- Lookups
- Prompts
- Tags
- Vault
- Running playbooks interactively
Working with Modules
- Installing modules
- Overview of commonly used modules
Additional Topics
- Ansible Galaxy
- AWX Project
- Testing strategies
- YAML syntax
Requirements
Linux/Unix administration skills are required.
Testimonials (7)
Trainer knowledge in the subject was very Good.
Fayaz - Skillsoft
Course - Managing Configuration with Ansible
Stay positive and excited as you are. It was the best training experience in my career!!
Mateusz Feliszewski - Global Knowledge Network Training Limited
Course - Managing Configuration with Ansible
Methodology theory and practice.
DAVID ARENAS FRANCO - SGS GULF LIMITED
Course - Managing Configuration with Ansible
The knowledge and helpfulness of the trainer.
Graham Gill - Global Knowledge
Course - Managing Configuration with Ansible
Staring at the complete begin, and building up slowly with a lot of examples
Jeroen Ledeboer - Global Knowledge
Course - Managing Configuration with Ansible
That the trainer gave as tasks to try or to guess what is the solution is (instead of presenting the solutions).
Jeannette Eichholz
Course - Managing Configuration with Ansible
The most thing I liked was how this training was organized. It was interactive and we had access to the training's solutions and there was no need to ask for help at minor issues. This Titus could focus on major issues.
