Course Outline
Introduction to Ansible
- Background on Ansible's origins and purpose
- Comparison with alternatives such as Saltstack
- Analysis of Ansible's strengths and constraints
Practical Examples
- Configuring Apache server deployments
- Managing configuration modifications
Playbook Development
- Role management
- Playbook inclusion
- Variable usage
- Filtering
- Conditional statements
- Looping mechanisms
- Accelerated Mode
- Asynchronous task execution
- Resource pooling
- Dry run capabilities
- Delegation, Rolling Updates, and Local Actions
- Error management
- Lookup functions
- User prompts
- Tagging
- Secret management via Vault
- Interactive playbook execution
Module Management
- Installing custom modules
- Overview of frequently used modules
Additional Topics
- Ansible Galaxy
- The AWX Project
- Testing methodologies
- YAML syntax standards
Requirements
Competency in Linux/Unix system administration is a mandatory prerequisite.
Testimonials (7)
Trainer knowledge in the subject was very Good.
Fayaz - Skillsoft
Course - Managing Configuration with Ansible
Stay positive and excited as you are. It was the best training experience in my career!!
Mateusz Feliszewski - Global Knowledge Network Training Limited
Course - Managing Configuration with Ansible
Methodology theory and practice.
DAVID ARENAS FRANCO - SGS GULF LIMITED
Course - Managing Configuration with Ansible
The knowledge and helpfulness of the trainer.
Graham Gill - Global Knowledge
Course - Managing Configuration with Ansible
Staring at the complete begin, and building up slowly with a lot of examples
Jeroen Ledeboer - Global Knowledge
Course - Managing Configuration with Ansible
That the trainer gave as tasks to try or to guess what is the solution is (instead of presenting the solutions).
Jeannette Eichholz
Course - Managing Configuration with Ansible
The most thing I liked was how this training was organized. It was interactive and we had access to the training's solutions and there was no need to ask for help at minor issues. This Titus could focus on major issues.
