Overview
This course has been created to system administrators who want to automate system and application configuration management with Ansible.
This course focuses mostly on Linux/Unix servers.
Requirements
Linux/Unix administration skills are required.
Course Outline
Introduction to Ansible
- Very brief history and reason for development of Ansible
- Brief comparison with Saltstack and others
- Benefits and limitations of using Ansible
Quick 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