Working in a hands-on learning environment led by our expert practitioner attendees will explore how to:

• Describe Ansible concepts and install Red Hat Ansible Engine (optional - we can pre-install is as well if desired, depending on the audience)
• Deploy Ansible and Configure Ansible to manage hosts and run ad hoc Ansible commands.
• Implement playbooks
• Write a simple Ansible playbook and run it to automate tasks on multiple managed hosts.
• Manage variables and facts
• Write playbooks that use variables to simplify management of the playbook and facts to reference information about managed hosts.
• Implement task control; Manage task control, handlers, and task errors in Ansible playbooks.
• Deploy files to managed hosts
• Deploy, manage, and adjust files on hosts managed by Ansible.
• Manage large projects
• Write playbooks that are optimized for larger, more complex projects.
• Simplify playbooks with roles
• Use Ansible roles to develop playbooks more quickly and to reuse Ansible code.
• Troubleshoot Ansible
• Troubleshoot playbooks and managed hosts.
• Automate Linux administration tasks
• Automate common Linux system administration tasks with Ansible.

The audience would include system administrators, DevOps engineers, and IT professionals looking to automate server configuration, deployment, and management tasks.

Please note that this list of topics is based on our standard course offering, evolved from typical industry uses and trends. We will work with you to tune this course and level of coverage to target the skills you need most.

Ansible Overview

• Overview of Architecture
• Overview of Deployments
• Inventory

Deploying Ansible

• Installing
• Configuration Files
• Running Ad Hoc Commands
• Dynamic Inventory

Playbooks

• Writing YAML Files
• Modules

Variables and Inclusions

• Variables
• Facts
• Inclusions

Task Control

• Constructing Flow Control
• Handlers
• Tags
• Handling Errors
• Jinja2 Templates

Roles

• Role Structure
• Creating Roles
• Deploying Roles with Ansible Galaxy
• Optimizing Ansible

Configuring Connection Types

• Configuring Delegation
• Configuring Parallelism
• Ansible Vault
• Configuring Ansible Vault
• Executing with Ansible Vault
• Troubleshooting Ansible

Troubleshooting Playbooks

• Troubleshooting Managed Hosts
• Ansible Tower

Ansible Tower overview

• Installing
• Account management
• Hosts
• Jobs