Manage Ansible with AWX
In this lab, you'll practice setting up basic components of an AWX instance from scratch. When you're finished with this lab, you'll have executed Ansible automation against a set of managed hosts through AWX.
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Challenge
Get Started in the Lab Environment
Here are the initial instructions and explanation of the lab environment. Read this while your environment is busy creating itself from nothing. Yes, this violates physics; we know. How fun!
Challenge
Create an Organization
To start the lab, you will set up a new organization within AWX, a web-based user interface that helps manage Ansible automation. By the end of this task, you will have successfully added the "Pluralsight" organization to your AWX instance.
Challenge
Create a Project
You will now set up a new project in AWX focusing on server security management in the Pluralsight organization. By the end of this task, you will have successfully added the "Server Security Management" project to your AWX instance.
Challenge
Create an Inventory
An inventory in AWX is a collection of hosts that are managed by Ansible automation. You will set up a new inventory in AWX focusing on servers in the Pluralsight organization.
Challenge
Create a Job Template
So templates can authenticate to managed hosts, you will create a set of credentials and a job template in AWX. By the end of this task, you will have successfully added the "Server Private RSA Key" credentials and the "Disallow Root Login" job template to your AWX instance.
Challenge
Execute a Job Template
In this challenge, you will execute the job template you created in the previous challenge. By the end of this task, you will have successfully executed the "Disallow Root Login" job template against managed hosts in the lab environment.
Challenge
The Last Challenge
Welcome to the final challenge! This is your last chance to experiment in the environment. Clicking Finish Lab will end this little world that flittered into existence just for you.
Provided environment for hands-on practice
We will provide the credentials and environment necessary for you to practice right within your browser.
Guided walkthrough
Follow along with the author’s guided walkthrough and build something new in your provided environment!
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Recommended prerequisites
- Intermediate Ansible skills: Strong understanding of fundamental Ansible concepts like playbooks, plays, tasks, collections, roles, and inventories.
- Basic understanding of AWX concepts: Understand the purpose and functionality of projects, job templates, and inventories in AWX.