Ansible (GL380)

Audience

• The audience for this course is systems administrators desiring to automate provisioning, configuration management, service deployment, and operational processes.

Prerequisites

• Experience with Linux shell, text editing, and basic systems administration

Detailed course outline

Ansible Overview

• Why Ansible?
• Overview of architecture
• Quiz: Architecture
• Inventory
• Inventory patterns
• Inventory plugins
• Quiz: Inventory and patterns
• Demo: Introducing Ansible

Deploying Ansible

• Installing
• Demo: Installing Ansible
• Configuration files
• Demo: Configuration files
• Module syntax help
• Running ad hoc commands
• Demo: Running ad hoc commands
• Dynamic inventory
• Demo: Dynamic inventory

Lab tasks

• Deploying Ansible
• Ad hoc commands
• Dynamic inventories

Playbooks Basics

• Writing YAML files
• Playbook structure
• Host and task execution order
• Command modules
• Significant module categories
• File manipulation
• Network modules
• Packaging modules
• System storage
• Account management
• Security
• Services
• Network automation
• Network module

Lab tasks

• Playbook basics
• Playbooks — command modules
• Playbooks — common modules

Variables and Inclusions

• Variables
• Variables — playbooks
• Variables — inventory
• Variables — registered
• Facts
• Demo: Facts
• Inclusions

Lab tasks

• Variables and facts
• Inclusions