This course delivers the essential, foundational skills required to succeed with Ansible, no matter your starting point or goals. This course covers the core concepts and techniques needed for automating server configurations, deploying applications, managing cloud infrastructure, or orchestrating complex workflows. You’ll learn to write powerful playbooks, manage inventories, and automate tasks using key modules. Through hands-on labs and practical examples, you’ll gain the crucial knowledge to confidently work with Ansible in any environment or role.
If you’re ready to master the must-have skills that form the backbone of all Ansible use cases, this course is the perfect starting point.
It provides the essential skills and concepts needed to confidently use Ansible for automation, configuration management, and orchestration across any environment. Whether you’re managing servers, deploying applications, configuring networks, or streamlining IT workflows, these foundational skills are critical for success. Without them, advancing further in Ansible or leveraging its full potential is not possible!
Ansible Overview
- Lecture: Introduction to Ansible
Ansible Basics
- Lecture: Introduction to YAML
- Lecture + Lab: Making an Inventory
- Lecture + Lab: Running a Playbook
- Lecture + Lab: ansible.cfg setup
- Lecture + Lab: Looping Tasks
- Lecture + Lab: Setting Variables: Part 1
- Lecture + Lab: Setting Variables: Part 2
Critical Modules
- Lecture + Lab: Ansible Module – copy
- Lecture + Lab: Ansible Module – file
- Lecture + Lab: Ansible Module – get_url and uri
- Lecture: Templating with Jinja
- Lecture + Lab: Ansible Module – template
Ansible Advanced
- Lecture + Lab: When Condition
- Lecture + Lab: Playbook Tags
- Lecture + Lab: Ansible Handlers and Listeners
- Lecture + Lab: Ansible Error Handling
- Lecture + Lab: Ansible Lookup Plugin
- Lecture + Lab: Ansible Callback Plugins
- Lecture: Collections, Roles, and Ansible Galaxy
- Lecture + Lab: Using Collections
- Lecture + Lab: Using Roles
- Lecture + Lab: Making Roles
- Lecture + Lab: Making Collections
- Lecture + Lab: Ansible Vault
OPTIONAL:
- Lecture + Lab: Roles and Molecule
- Lecture + Lab: Ansible Module – script
Lecture + Lab: Writing an Ansible Module with Python
- System administrators
- Networkers,
- DevOps engineers,
- IT professionals
- Anyone looking to build a strong foundation in Ansible.