Ansible Training
Course Duration
3 Days
Audience
Employees of federal, state and local governments; and businesses working with the government.
Prerequisites
Experience with Linux shell, text editing, and basic systems administration needed.
Course Description
The audience for this course is system's administrators desiring to automate provisioning, configuration management, service deployment, operational processes. This course covers all the core Ansible features including: installing and configuring, running ad-hoc commands, understanding modules, creating and using playbooks, variables and inclusion, task control, templates, and roles. The course also covers: dealing with sensitive data via Ansible Vault, fundamentals of Ansible Tower, integration with Docker and Vagrant, and troubleshooting.
Course Outline
- ANSIBLE TRAINING OVERVIEW Why Ansible?
- Overview of Architecture
- QUIZ: Architecture
- Inventory
- Inventory Patterns
- Inventory Plugins
- QUIZ: Inventory and Patterns
- DEMO: Introducing Ansible
- DEPLOYING ANSIBLE Installing
- DEMO: Installing Ansible
- Configuration Files
- DEMO: Configuration Files
- Module Syntax Help
- Running Ad Hoc Commands
- DEMO: Running Ad Hoc Commands
- Dynamic Inventory
- DEMO: Dynamic Inventory
- Deploying Ansible
- Ad Hoc Commands
- Dynamic Inventories
- PLAYBOOKS BASICS Writing YAML Files
- Playbook Structure
- Host and Task Execution Order
- Command Modules
- Significant Module Categories
- File Manipulation
- Network Modules
- Packaging Modules
- System Storage
- Account Management