Ansible Tower Overview

Deploy and use Ansible Tower to manage your existing Ansible projects, playbooks

What you'll learn:

• Students should understand Ansible Tower to manage their existing Ansible projects, playbooks
• Ansible Tower Features
• Overview of Ansible Setup, AD-Hoc Commands and running Playbook
• Orientation to the Ansible Tower Web Interface
• Installation of Ansible Tower
• Ansible Tower Web Interface
• Resources like Templates, Credentials, Projects & Inventories etc
• Creating Users and Teams for Role-Based Access Control
• Creating & Managing Ansible Tower Users
• User Types & Organization Role
• Creating & Managing Inventories & Credentials
• Overview of GitHub
• Install and Configure Git
• Overview of Dynamic Inventories
• Configuring a Dynamic Inventory for AWS EC2 Environment

Ansible Tower is designed for IT professionals who use Ansible and need to centrally manage their Ansible projects in a way that scales to large teams and complex enterprise installations, using Ansible Tower.

Course Content

Introduction to Ansible Tower

• Overview of Ansible

• Introduction to Ansible Tower

• Ansible Tower Features

• Ansible Tower Setup

Installing Ansible Tower

• Installation Steps of Ansible

• Overview of Ansible Setup, AD-Hoc Commands and running Playbook

• Installation of Ansible Tower

• Orientation to the Ansible Tower Web Interface

Ansible Tower Web Interface

• Overview of Tower Dashboard

• Resources like Templates, Credentials, Projects & Inventories etc

• Practice Lab Session - Running a job to update a content in a file

• Practice Lab Session - Running a job to restart a service

  
  

Creating Users and Teams for Role-Based Access Control

• Overview of RBAC

• Creating & Managing Ansible Tower Users

• Various User Types

• Organization Role

• Lab Session 1 - Creating and Managing Ansible Tower Users

• Lab Session 2 - Delegating permissions to a normal user to execute a job template

• Lab Session 3 - Delegating permissions to a normal user to access, edit or update a inventory

• Lab Session 4 - Delegating permissions to a normal user to run a AD-Hoc Commands

• Managing Users with Teams

• Practice Lab Session

Creating & Managing Inventories & Credentials

• Creating a Static Inventory

• Practice Lab Session

• Creating Machine Credentials for Access to Inventory Hosts

• Credential Types

• Practice Lab Session

  
  

GitHub

• Overview of GitHub

• Install and Configure Git

• Create a GitHub Account

• Creating a local Git Repository

• Push the files from local Git Repository to remote GitHub Repository

• Pull the from GitHub Repo to Local repo

• Managing Ansible Projects using Git

• Practice Lab Session

  
  

Dynamic Inventory

• Overview of Dynamic Inventories

• Configuring a Dynamic Inventory for AWS EC2 Environment

• Creating AWS Credentials on Tower

• Practice Lab : Sync to update Inventory for newly added EC2 hosts or decommissioned servers

  
  

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