COURSE OBJECTIVE:
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TARGET AUDIENCE:
This course is for systems administrators
desiring to automate provisioning,
configuration management, service
deployment, and operational processes.
COURSE PREREQUISITES:
Experience with Linux shell, text editing, and
basic systems administration
COURSE CONTENT:
Ansible Overview• Why Ansible?• Overview of architecture• Quiz: Architecture• Inventory• Inventory patterns• Inventory plugins• Quiz: Inventory and patterns• Demo: Introducing AnsibleDeploying Ansible• Installing• Demo: Installing Ansible• Configuration files• Demo: Configuration files• Module syntax help• Running ad hoc commands• Demo: Running ad hoc commands• Dynamic inventory• Demo: Dynamic inventory• Lab tasks– Deploying Ansible– Ad hoc commands– Dynamic inventoriesPlaybooks Basics• Writing YAML files• Playbook structure• Host and task execution order• Command modules• Significant module categories• File manipulation• Network modules• Packaging modules• System storage• Account management• Security• Services• Demo: Playbooks• Lab tasks– Playbook basics– Playbooks—command modules– Playbooks—common modulesVariables and Inclusions
• Variables• Variables—playbooks• Variables—inventory• Variables—registered• Variables—magic• Facts• Demo: Facts• Inclusions• Lab tasks– Variables and facts– InclusionsJinja2 Templates• Jinja2• The template module• Expressions• Quiz: Jinja2 templates• Filters• Methods• Tests• Lookups• Control structures• Demo: Jinja2 templates• Lab tasks– Jinja2 templatesTask Control • Loops• Loops and variables• Demo: Constructing flow control• Conditionals• Demo: Conditionals• Handlers• Tags• Handling errors• Lab tasks– Task controlRoles • Roles• Role usage details• Creating roles• Quiz: Role structure• Deploying roles with Ansible Galaxy• Demo: Deploying roles with Ansible Galaxy• Lab tasks– Converting playbooks to roles– Creating roles from scratch– Ansible Galaxy rolesOptimizing Ansible • Connection types• Delegation• Parallelism• Callback plugins• Lab tasks– Optimizing AnsibleAnsible Vault • Configuring Ansible Vault• Vault IDs• Executing with Ansible Vault• Demo: Configuring Ansible Vault• Lab tasks– Ansible VaultAppendix A: Network automation • Network automation• Simple network module examples• Network modules: Gotchas• Simple IOS modules Examples• General purpose ios modules
FOLLOW ON COURSES:
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