ANSIBLE – Instrument for Collective Configuration

UNIX administrators and anyone else seeking a high-level understanding of Ansible and to learn to build Ansible from the ground up.

You will learn the basics of Ansible and watch a simple Ansible playbook, roles, inventories be created from start to finish.

We recommend having advancedLinux/UNIX system administration skills.

•     Architecture
•     Client / server
•     Usage scenarios
•     Install and configure Ansible 
•     Inventories
•     Static inventory
•     Dynamic inventory
•     Playbooks
•     YAML
  •     String
  •     Comment
  •     Dictionary
  •     List / Array
  •     Syntax validation of YAML
•     Variables - group_vars a host_vars
•     Conditions
•     Loops
  •  with_items
  •  when
•     Handlers
•     Tags
•     Facts
•     Error handling
•     Modules
•     Inclusion
•     Playbook creation 
•     Scenarios
  •   Web server
  •   DB server
  •   FTP server
  •   ...
•     Jinja2 templates
•     Roles
•     Ansible Vault
•     Ansible Galaxy
•     Ansible Tower

Previous courses

Linux Networking [LXI3]

Linux – Administration [LXI2]

Linux – Installation [LXI1]