Linux Automation with Ansible Training Course

Course Contents - DAY 1

Course Introduction

• • Administration and Course Materials
• • Course Structure and Agenda
• • Delegate and Trainer Introductions

Session 1: INTRODUCTION TO ANSIBLE

• • Ansible in steps
• • Ansible Overview

Session 2: DEPLOYING ANSIBLE

• • Installing Ansible on RHEL-based systems
• • Installing Ansible on Debian-based systems
• • Authenticating Ansible with SSH keys
• • Ansible configuration
• • Creating the Ansible Inventory
• • Ansible client configuration
• • Exercise

Session 3: AD-HOC COMMANDS

• • Generating an ad-hoc command
• • Command line options
• • Module documentation
• • Using modules with ad-hoc commands
• • Verifying Ansible syntax
• • stat and shell modules
• • Specifying an alternate Inventory
• • Exercise

Session 4: YAML

• • YAML basics
• • Common YAML syntax errors
• • Writing YAML with vim
• • Installing and configuring code editors
• • Exercise

Linux Automation with Ansible Training Course

Course Contents - DAY 2

Session 5: PLAYBOOKS AND TASKS

• • What is a playbook
• • Playbook header
• • Tasks within a playbook
• • Importing items and playbooks
• • Playbook best practices
• • Exercise

Session 6: SIMPLE PLAYBOOKS

• • Basic Ansible modules
• • file module
• • lineinfile module
• • copy module
• • archive module
• • Exercise

Session 7: SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION PLAYBOOKS

• • Playbook command line options
• • Playbook tags
• • System administration modules
• • service module
• • firewalld module
• • user module
• • Exercise

Session 8: FURTHER ANSIBLE PLAYBOOKS

• • Further Ansible modules
• • parted module
• • mount module
• • cron module
• • Security related modules
• • seboolean module
• • SELinux module
• • seport module
• • Exercise

Linux Automation with Ansible Training Course

Course Contents - DAY 3

Session 9: VARIABLES AND FACTS

• • Simple variables
• • List and Dictionary methods
• • Defining variable locations
• • Variables within external files
• • Command line variables
• • Ansible prompts
• • Registering variables
• • Using module return values
• • Capturing Ansible failures
• • Iteration using lists
• • Ansible facts
• • Commonly used Ansible facts
• • Using facts within a task
• • Using conditional statements with Facts
• • Exercise

Session 10: ROLES AND TEMPLATES

• • Ansible roles
• • Ansible Galaxy command
• • Role directory structure
• • Constructing an Ansible Role
• • Constructing a File Template
• • Ansible Galaxy repository
• • Downloading and executing Roles
• • Exercise

Linux Automation with Ansible Training Course

Course Contents - DAY 4

Session 11: FURTHER CONFIGURATION

• • Ansible Parallelism and Forks
• • Fact Caching
• • Ansible Vault
• • Creating and accessing the Vault
• • Encrypting variables
• • Ansible client and server logging
• • Omitting and redirecting log output
• • Error handling and ignoring failed commands
• • Handlers and failures
• • Exercise

Session 12: LOOPS AND SCRIPTING

• • Ansible loops
• • Looping through variables
• • Number sequencing
• • Random values
• • Retries
• • Ansible within shell scripts
• • Menu driven and copy scripts