Ansible Automation Mastery Program

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This comprehensive Ansible training course covers configuration management, automation, and infrastructure provisioning. Designed for DevOps engineers and IT professionals, this course will provide you with the skills to automate your workflows, manage infrastructure at scale, and integrate Ansible into your CI/CD pipelines.

Course Objectives:

By the end of this course, participants will:

Understand Ansible’s architecture, key concepts, and use cases.
Learn how to work with Ansible inventory, modules, and playbooks for automation.
Use Ansible roles for scalable, reusable automation tasks.
Manage sensitive information securely using Ansible Vault.
Automate infrastructure provisioning in cloud and containerized environments.
Integrate Ansible into continuous deployment pipelines.
Learn best practices for Ansible playbooks and troubleshooting.

Course Duration:

Total Duration: 40 Hours (Approx.)
Time Commitment: 4-5 hours per week

What Will You Learn?

Introduction to Ansible: Basics of Ansible, its architecture, and use cases.
Working with Ansible Inventory: Organize and manage hosts and resources in Ansible.
Ansible Modules: Learn to use and write Ansible modules for task automation.
Ansible Playbooks: Automate complex workflows using Ansible playbooks.
Ansible Roles and Advanced Playbooks: Structure code with reusable roles and advanced playbook features.
Ansible Vault and Security: Manage secrets securely with Ansible Vault.
Ansible Tower (AWX): Manage large-scale deployments and teams with Ansible Tower.
Ansible with Cloud and Containerization: Integrate Ansible with cloud platforms and container orchestration tools.
CI/CD Integration with Ansible: Automate CI/CD workflows with Ansible.
Troubleshooting and Best Practices: Learn how to troubleshoot playbooks and follow industry best practices.

Material Includes

Step-by-step guides for setup and configurations.
Hands-on labs for each module.
Troubleshooting tips and best practices.
Real-world use cases and case studies.

Course Curriculum

Module 1: Introduction to Ansible

Objective: Understand the basics of Ansible, its architecture, and use cases.
Topics: Introduction to Ansible, its benefits, agentless architecture, and ecosystem components. Lab/Exercise: Install Ansible and run your first Ansible command.

Module 2: Working with Ansible Inventory

Module 3: Ansible Modules

Module 4: Ansible Playbooks

Module 5: Ansible Roles and Advanced Playbooks

Module 6: Ansible Vault and Security Best Practices

Module 7: Ansible Tower (AWX)

Module 8: Ansible with Cloud and Containerization

Module 9: CI/CD Integration with Ansible

Module 10: Troubleshooting and Best Practices

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Ansible Automation Mastery Program

March 8, 2025

About Course

What Will You Learn?

Material Includes

Course Curriculum

Module 1: Introduction to Ansible

Objective: Understand the basics of Ansible, its architecture, and use cases.

Topics: Introduction to Ansible, its benefits, agentless architecture, and ecosystem components. Lab/Exercise: Install Ansible and run your first Ansible command.

Module 2: Working with Ansible Inventory

Objective: Learn how to manage and organize hosts in Ansible.

Topics: Static vs Dynamic inventory, using INI and YAML formats, and managing cloud inventories. Lab/Exercise: Create dynamic inventory for cloud providers (e.g., AWS or Azure).

Module 3: Ansible Modules

Objective: Learn how to use Ansible modules for automating tasks.

Topics: Overview of file, command, package, service modules, and custom module creation. Lab/Exercise: Automate server setup using common modules and write a custom module.

Module 4: Ansible Playbooks

Objective: Learn to create and execute playbooks for complex automation workflows.

Topics: YAML syntax, structure of playbooks, and best practices for idempotent playbooks. Lab/Exercise: Automate multi-step deployment using playbooks.

Module 5: Ansible Roles and Advanced Playbooks

Objective: Structure and organize Ansible code for scalable automation.

Topics: Using roles, Galaxy roles, and advanced playbook features like tags and async tasks. Lab/Exercise: Use multiple roles to automate a complete application stack.

Module 6: Ansible Vault and Security Best Practices

Objective: Securely manage secrets and sensitive information with Ansible Vault.

Topics: Encrypting/decrypting files, managing secrets in playbooks, and security best practices. Lab/Exercise: Encrypt a configuration file and automate decryption within a playbook.

Module 7: Ansible Tower (AWX)

Objective: Learn how to use Ansible Tower for managing large-scale Ansible deployments.

Topics: Installing Ansible Tower, creating projects, inventories, RBAC, and managing job templates. Lab/Exercise: Set up Ansible Tower and run playbooks through Tower.

Module 8: Ansible with Cloud and Containerization

Objective: Integrate Ansible with cloud platforms and container environments.

Topics: Automating cloud resources with Ansible and working with Docker and Kubernetes. Lab/Exercise: Automate cloud application deployment and manage Docker/Kubernetes with Ansible.

Module 9: CI/CD Integration with Ansible

Objective: Integrate Ansible into CI/CD pipelines for continuous automation.

Topics: Integrating Ansible with Jenkins and GitLab CI, automating testing and deployment. Lab/Exercise: Set up a CI/CD pipeline with Jenkins and automate deployments.

Module 10: Troubleshooting and Best Practices

Objective: Learn how to troubleshoot Ansible playbooks and follow best practices.

Topics: Debugging playbooks, log output, error messages, and performance tuning. Lab/Exercise: Troubleshoot and refactor an Ansible playbook.

Capstone Project

Objective: Apply your knowledge in a real-world scenario.

Project Details: Design and automate infrastructure setup (e.g., multi-tier application with CI/CD integration).

Your Instructors

kodestree

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