Ansible training
Learn Ansible with Pluralsight
Looking to build up your Ansible playbook or the complex tasks you’re able to automate with this platform? Pluralsight will take you through the basics and more advanced uses of things like Ansible Tower or Ansible Galaxy. If you’ve got big plans for server automation, security automation, and more, the right courses, video lessons, and hands-on labs are just a click away.
Why learn Ansible with Pluralsight?
Whether it’s Ansible for AWS, Azure, or Linux, here at Pluralsight we believe people learn best by doing. That’s why starting your Ansible learning journey with engaging video lessons led by pros is just that—a start. From there, Pluralsight allows you to go hands-on with interactive, live-environment labs you won’t find anywhere else.
This learn-by-doing approach reinforces the Ansible skills you’ll learn in classes, helps you retain important information, and gives you valuable experience building (or automating) things in the cloud so you can easily bring Ansible applications into your day-to-day work.
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Find the right Ansible courses
What would you like to learn? At Pluralsight, we’ve got courses for everyone from newcomers to seasoned pros covering a huge range of Ansible topics. Pluralsight courses combine engaging video lessons with interactive hands-on labs that drop you into real-world scenarios where you can learn by doing to make new tech skills stick.
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Try hands-on labs for Ansible
As you wade into the world of Ansible, you’ll need to get familiar with things like Ansible Command, shell, or other Ansible modules. Sound intimidating? It shouldn’t—not when Pluralsight has developed hands-on labs. These allow you to get real, hands-on experience with Ansible topics anytime. Use hands-on labs in line with your learning lessons or as your go-to for answering pesky questions while working. Pluralsight lets you and your teams learn the exact skills needed, exactly when you need them.
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Lean into an Ansible learning path
Ansible’s ability to automate repetitive or extremely complex operations makes learning it provide some of the best ROI for learners. There’s a lot to cover if you’re trying to get the most of Ansible for DevOps or taking on Ansible training courses. Pluralsight covers that ground for you with learning paths—tailored collections of courses, videos, labs, and more carefully designed by our in-house experts to provide you with the Ansible learning roadmap. Once you’ve browsed the available learning paths, simply start the ones that teach or touch on topics you need, such as Ansible architecture, Ansible vault security, and more.
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FAQs
Get answers to frequently asked questions about Ansible learning.
Put simply, Ansible is an automation platform. It’s been around since 2012 and is maintained by developer Red Hat Software. Red Hat describes Ansible as performing “simple IT automation,” and it’s hard to argue with that—over the years, Ansible has become one of the go-to tools for automating complex deployments across machines that hold up companies’ infrastructures or automate other maintenance needs that would otherwise cost teams lots of time to do manually. With a large open-source community to support it and the ability to work with many popular technologies, Ansible has become one of the standards for IT automation at scale.
Between its simple setup and open-source support, Ansible is relatively easy to get started with. However, since it supports many IT functions and can be used at scale up to enterprise-level needs, learning how to get the most out of it takes time, training, and often certification to master and make a career out of.
Ansible and Terraform are separate automation tools used widely among IT professionals. Both are open-source, supported by large communities, and used for important automation needs. They can be used separately or even complementary—the strength of each lies in what your company’s needs are. Put simply, you’ll hear Terraform described as a tool to deploy Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Ansible as a way to automate the configuration and ongoing management of systems. There are more nuances to learn as you get certified with each tool, however.
Puppet is another powerful tool for helping teams with automation and at-scale IT needs. Both platforms are highly scalable, offer automation and cloud provisioning functionalities, and provide extensive enterprise offerings. Where Ansible has a lower barrier of entry, Puppet has very strong and powerful automation capabilities once it's learned. Pluralsight Skills has covered these differences both at a glance and in-depth: For more information, see Ansible vs. Puppet: Which is right for you?
Yes. Pluralsight Skills offers a rotating selection of cloud and cloud-adjacent courses as well as a free trial of our tech skills platform.
Keep up with interesting Ansible news
What’s new in the world of Ansible automations and other applications of the platform? The Pluralsight blog is a great place to read up on the new and notable, go deep on nuanced topics, and get tips and insights from Ansible experts.