Ansible

Through hands-on labs, you will learn to automate system administration tasks on managed hosts with Ansible, find out how to write Ansible playbooks to standardize task execution, and manage encryption for Ansible with Ansible Vault. This course will also teach you how to deploy and use Red Hat Ansible Tower to centrally manage existing Ansible projects, playbooks, and roles; perform basic maintenance and administration of the Ansible Tower installation; and configure users and teams and use them to control access to systems, projects, and other resources through role-based access controls. You will learn to use Ansible Tower's visual dashboard to launch, control, and monitor Ansible jobs; use the Ansible Tower application programming interface (API) to launch jobs from existing templates; automatically schedule Ansible jobs; and dynamically update host inventories.

Modules

• Introduce Ansible

  • Describe Ansible concepts and install Red Hat^® Ansible Engine.

• Deploy Ansible

  • Configure Ansible to manage hosts and run ad hoc Ansible commands.

• Implement playbooks

  • Write a simple Ansible playbook and run it to automate tasks on multiple hosts.

• Manage variables and inclusions

  • Write playbooks that use variables and facts to simplify management of the playbook and facts to reference information about the managed hosts.

• Implement task control

  • Manage task control, handlers, and task errors in Ansible playbooks.

• Deploy files to managed hosts

  • Deploy, manage, and adjust files on hosts managed by Ansible.

• Manage large projects

  • Write playbooks that are optimized for larger, more complex projects.

• Simplify playbooks with roles

  • Use Ansible roles to develop playbooks more quickly and to reuse Ansible code.

• Implement roles

  • Create and manage roles.

• Configure complex playbooks

  • Configure connection types, delegations, and parallelism.

• Implement Ansible Vault

  • Manage encryption with Ansible Vault.

• Troubleshoot Ansible

  • Troubleshoot playbooks and managed hosts.