Ansible Essentials with Hands-on Labs

Ansible Essentials with Hands-on Labs, available at $89.99, has an average rating of 4.7, with 58 lectures, 3 quizzes, based on 454 reviews, and has 4054 subscribers.

You will learn about Configuration management with Ansible Install and configure Ansible Automation Engine on a control node Run ad-hoc automation tasks from the command line Write Ansible playbooks to automate multiple system administration tasks on managed hosts Work with Ansible in conjunction with Vagrant and Virtualbox in a DevOps environment Parameterize Ansible playbooks using variables and facts Ansible variable precedence system and overriding Use Jinja2 templating to enable dynamic expressions and access to variables Create Ansible playbooks/roles to deploy a 3-tier web application Configure Ansible roles with tasks, handlers, files, templates, dependencies and variables Be able to create Ansible playbooks/roles to deploy a 3-tier web application This course is ideal for individuals who are Complete beginners to Ansible and configuration management or IT professionals who are experienced in another configuration management tool and now want to pick up a new skill or IT professionals who know basic Ansible but now want to level up their skills with the advanced topics in this course It is particularly useful for Complete beginners to Ansible and configuration management or IT professionals who are experienced in another configuration management tool and now want to pick up a new skill or IT professionals who know basic Ansible but now want to level up their skills with the advanced topics in this course.

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Summary

Title: Ansible Essentials with Hands-on Labs

Price: $89.99

Average Rating: 4.7

Number of Lectures: 58

Number of Quizzes: 3

Number of Published Lectures: 58

Number of Published Quizzes: 2

Number of Curriculum Items: 61

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 60

Original Price: $89.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

Configuration management with Ansible

Install and configure Ansible Automation Engine on a control node

Run ad-hoc automation tasks from the command line

Write Ansible playbooks to automate multiple system administration tasks on managed hosts

Work with Ansible in conjunction with Vagrant and Virtualbox in a DevOps environment

Parameterize Ansible playbooks using variables and facts

Ansible variable precedence system and overriding

Use Jinja2 templating to enable dynamic expressions and access to variables

Create Ansible playbooks/roles to deploy a 3-tier web application

Configure Ansible roles with tasks, handlers, files, templates, dependencies and variables

Be able to create Ansible playbooks/roles to deploy a 3-tier web application

Who Should Attend

Complete beginners to Ansible and configuration management

IT professionals who are experienced in another configuration management tool and now want to pick up a new skill

IT professionals who know basic Ansible but now want to level up their skills with the advanced topics in this course

Target Audiences

Complete beginners to Ansible and configuration management

IT professionals who are experienced in another configuration management tool and now want to pick up a new skill

IT professionals who know basic Ansible but now want to level up their skills with the advanced topics in this course

Ansible is a simple to understand, simple to adopt, simple to use IT configuration management and automation tool. With the Ansible Essentials course, you can start from the basics and go all the way to creating your own playbooks and roles with Ansible.

This is a focused course designed to rapidly get you up to speed on using Ansible automation engine in real life. As an IT professional, you’ll develop a solid understanding of Ansible and will be able to apply it to daily automation and configuration management tasks.

Ansible Essentials course includes lots of examples and hands-on labs and aims at providing students with first-hand experience with course concepts. You can follow along the course by setting up your own lab environment. A Vagrant environment is used throughout the course, and in the appendix, you’ll find detailed lectures showing you how to set up one for yourself.

Each lecture introduces a new Ansible concept. Concepts are first explained, and then relevant examples are provided. Some of them are also demoed in the lab environment showing you how they can be applied to playbooks. And finally, we apply the concept to our LAMP Stack playbooks.

Course follows a progressive path that mirrors a real-world approach to automation. It’s divided into five sections, starting with the architectural overview and foundational concepts. In section 2, we’ll install Ansible automation engine and learn about inventory, which is the first thing we need to get started automating tasks with Ansible. We’ll learn ad-hoc commands and also discover some of Ansible’s commonly used modules in section 3.

Then we’ll move on to ansible playbooks. Playbooks let us use fully-fledged configuration management and orchestration capabilities of Ansible. Ansible playbooks are written in YAML, so before diving into the details of playbooks, we’ll do a YAML overview. Then, we’ll learn about playbook basics, including playbook structure, idempotency, and tasks. We’ll learn how to run a playbook, check its syntax, and control its output with verbose.

Then we’ll start building our 3 tier web application. In each lecture, we’ll learn one or more ansible features, and we’ll apply them to our project. In this part of the course, you’ll learn about handlers, Jinja2 templating, loops, variables, error handling, and much more. At the end of this section, you’ll have prepared playbooks that can deploy a fully functional multi-node LAMP stack on your machines.

In section 5, we’ll cover how to organize playbooks more effectively where you’ll learn about imports, includes, and roles. We’ll refactor the playbooks into roles and make them easy to share and reuse.

This course is based on Red Hat? Ansible Engine 2.8 and CentOS Linux 7.7. By following along the course, you’ll learn how to set up a 3-tiered web application environment that leverages Apache2, Python, and MySQL on CentOS machines.

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Introduction to Ansible Essentials Course

Lecture 2: Course Overview

Lecture 3: Important, please read!

Chapter 2: Ansible Foundations & Installation

Lecture 1: Ansible Architecture

Lecture 2: Course FAQ

Lecture 3: Installing Ansible

Lecture 4: Ansible Inventory

Lecture 5: Ansible Configuration File (ansible.cfg)

Chapter 3: Ansible Ad-Hoc Commands

Lecture 1: Introduction to Ansible Ad-Hoc Commands

Lecture 2: Ad-Hoc Command Examples

Lecture 3: Setup Module & Filtering

Lecture 4: Host Selection Patterns

Chapter 4: Ansible Playbooks

Lecture 1: YAML Overview

Lecture 2: Ansible Playbook Structure

Lecture 3: Tasks & Idempotency in Ansible

Lecture 4: First Ansible Playbook

Lecture 5: Syntax Check & Dry Run

Lecture 6: Anaible Playbook Execution

Lecture 7: Host Facts

Lecture 8: Yum Module

Lecture 9: Service Module

Lecture 10: Copy Module

Lecture 11: Loops in Ansible

Lecture 12: Variables-I

Lecture 13: Variables-II

Lecture 14: Variables-III

Lecture 15: Variable Precedence in Ansible

Lecture 16: Lineinfile Module

Lecture 17: Apache Virtual Host Configuration

Lecture 18: Ansible Handlers

Lecture 19: Error Handling-I

Lecture 20: Error Handling-II: Register & When

Lecture 21: Error Handling-III: Ignore Errors

Lecture 22: Blocks

Lecture 23: Git Module

Lecture 24: Templating I: Loops & Conditionals

Lecture 25: Templating II- Filters & Tests

Lecture 26: Templating III: HAProxy Configuration

Lecture 27: Templating IV: HAProxy Configuration

Lecture 28: Templating V: HAProxy Configuration

Lecture 29: Mysql_db & mysql_user

Lecture 30: Common Tasks

Lecture 31: Firewalld Module

Lecture 32: Tags

Chapter 5: Creating Reusable Playbooks

Lecture 1: Including & Importing

Lecture 2: Site.yml

Lecture 3: Ansible Roles

Lecture 4: Role Structure

Lecture 5: Tasks & Handlers

Lecture 6: Files & Templates

Lecture 7: Role Variables: Defaults & Vars

Lecture 8: Meta & Tests

Lecture 9: Role Execution

Chapter 6: Appendix- Environment Setup

Lecture 1: About Vagrant and Lab Environment

Lecture 2: Vagrant Installation

Lecture 3: Environment Setup

Lecture 4: Creating a non-root user for Ansible

Lecture 5: Setting up SSH Authentication

Instructors

Ugur Oktay
IT Architect

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4 stars: 164 votes

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