Ansible Fundamentals
This course will teach you how to automate the configuration of systems, deployment of software, and orchestration of more complex IT tasks, ultimately enabling you to manage complex, multi-tier IT infrastructure with ease and efficiency.
What you'll learn
Managing IT systems manually can be time-consuming, error-prone, and difficult to standardize. Automation is the solution to these challenges, and Ansible is a leading tool in this domain. In this course, Ansible Fundamentals, you’ll learn to automate your IT infrastructure, thereby enhancing efficiency and reducing errors.
First, you’ll explore the foundations of Ansible, its architecture, and components, paving the way for you to set up your own Ansible environment. Next, you’ll dive into Ansible's core elements - playbooks and modules, empowering you to automate a vast array of system administration tasks. Finally, you’ll understand how to manage inventories, utilize variables for customization, and delve into advanced topics like roles and templates.
By the end of this course, you’ll have gained the knowledge and skills needed to use Ansible effectively, equipping you to automate and manage your IT infrastructure with increased proficiency and reliability.
Table of contents
- Overview 2m
- Defining Configuration Management 1m
- Introducing Ansible 4m
- Ansible Basic Architecture 4m
- Ansible's Competitors 1m
- Understanding Infrastructure as Code 1m
- Understanding YAML 3m
- Demo: Exploring the Ansible Environment 6m
- Demo: Exploring the Ansible Inventory 6m
- Demo: Testing Node Connectivity 6m
- Summary 1m
- Overview 0m
- Ansible Playbooks 6m
- Ansible Modules 1m
- Modules vs. Plugins 2m
- Ansible Plugin Example Use Case 2m
- Ansible Galaxy 2m
- Ansible Collections vs. Roles 3m
- Running Ansible Playbooks 1m
- About Tags 1m
- Ansible CLI Examples 1m
- About Privilege Escalation 1m
- Demo: Troubleshooting the Inventory 4m
- Demo: Analyzing a Playbook 6m
- Demo: Running a Playbook 6m
- Demo: Refactoring a Playbook 2m
- Summary 1m
- Overview 1m
- Ansible Best Practices 3m
- Role Directory Structure, Revisited 2m
- Troubleshooting Ansible 2m
- Ansible Debugging: Examples 1m
- Privilege Escalation, Revisited 1m
- Leveraging Ansible Vault 2m
- Demo: Debugging Ansible Modules Part 1 2m
- Demo: Debugging Ansible Modules Part 2 2m
- Demo: Examining Debug Output 2m
- Summary 1m