Ansible Essential Training

Dig deeper into the power of Ansible. Learn how to use this IT automation engine to deploy, maintain, and troubleshoot infrastructures through automation and orchestration.

Introduction

• Upgrade your IT skills with Ansible
• What you should already know

1. Building Great Tasks

• Using host groups
• Using tags
• Running tasks against localhost
• Using the command line to control execution
• Specifying variables in the inventory file
• Creating dynamic inventory files
• Using templates
• Conditional execution
• Using loops
• Testing plays with check mode

2. Using Roles

• An overview of roles in Ansible
• Using variables in roles
• Using role-based templates
• Roles and Ansible Galaxy
• Role management

3. Using Secrets

• An overview of secrets in Ansible
• Using Ansible Vault
• Using secrets in plays

4. Performing Network Management

• Overview of network management with Ansible
• Working with IP addresses in Ansible
• Working with network devices

5. Leveraging Idempotence

• What is idempotence?
• Registering discovered state

Conclusion

• What to study next