Automation with Ansible I Training

Have a Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) certification or equivalent experience.

System and cloud administrators who need to automate cloud provisioning, configuration management, application deployment, intra-service orchestration, and other IT needs.

• Install and troubleshoot Ansible on central nodes and managed hosts
• Use Ansible to run ad-hoc commands and playbooks to automate tasks
• Write effective Ansible playbooks
• Protect encrypted data needed for tasks with Ansible Vault
• Use Ansible Tower to more easily manage enterprise Ansible deployments
• Work with Ansible in conjunction with Vagrant in a DevOps environment

Course introduction

• Introduce and review the course.

Introduce Ansible

• Describe the terminology and architecture of Ansible.

Deploy Ansible

• Install Ansible and run ad hoc commands.

Implement playbooks

• Write Ansible plays and execute a playbook.

Manage variables and inclusions

• Describe variable scope and precedence, manage variables and facts in a play, and manage inclusions.

Implement task control

• Manage task control, handlers, and tags in Ansible playbooks.

Implement Jinja2 templates

• Implement a Jinja2 template.

Implement roles

• Create and manage roles.

Configure complex playbooks

• Configure connection types, delegations, and parallelism.

Implement Ansible Vault

• Manage encryption with Ansible Vault.

Troubleshoot Ansible

• Troubleshoot the Ansible control machine and managed nodes.

Implement Ansible Tower

• Implement Ansible Tower.

Implement Ansible in a DevOps environment

• Implement Ansible in a DevOps environment using Vagrant.

Comprehensive review

• Review tasks from the Automation with Ansible course.