Ansible for Beginners - eLearning

Course timeline

1. Beginning Ansible

   Lesson 01

   • Introduction to Ansible
   • Installing Ansible
   • First Ansible Command
   • First Ansible Playbook
   • Ansible and YAML

2. Basic Ansible Modules

   Lesson 02

   • Package Installs With Ansible
   • File Configuration With Ansible
   • Service Configuration With Ansible
   • Cloud Configuration With Ansible
   • Container Configuration With Ansible

3. Managing Inventory

   Lesson 03

   • Secure Shell
   • Controlling Remote Servers
   • Inventory Groups
   • Groups of Groups
   • Applying Groups
   • Dynamic Inventory
   • Using Dynamic Inventory

4. Facts, Variables, and Handlers

   Lesson 04

   • Facts
   • Variables
   • Reuse With Variables
   • Purpose of Handlers

5. Roles and Collections

   Lesson 05

   • Purpose of Roles
   • Role Structure
   • First Ansible Role
   • Purpose of Collections
   • First Ansible Collection
   • About Ansible Galaxy
   • Using Ansible Galaxy
   • Second Ansible Deployment
   • Running and Debugging

6. ContrRole Design

   Lesson 06

   • Conditional Tasks
   • Applying Conditions
   • Task Success and Failure
   • Task Loops
   • Task Loops With Variablesolling Tasks

7. Templates

   Lesson 07

   • Templates
   • Template Filters
   • Template Conditionals
   • Template Loops
   • Extending Templates

8. Task Results

   Lesson 08

   • Registering Results
   • Data Collection With Tasks
   • Distributing Host Data
   • Custom Facts

9. Testing Automation

   Lesson 09

   • Testing Roles
   • Using Molecule
   • First Molecule Test
   • Debugging Tests

10. Custom Plugins and Modules

    Lesson 10

    • Ansible Plugins
    • Creating a Plugin
    • Filter Plugins
    • Callback Plugins
    • Ansible Modules
    • Creating a Module

11. Local Development

    Lesson 11

    • Ansible for Development
    • Vagrant
    • Ansible For Integration Testing
    • Vagrant With Multiple Machines
    • Ansible Best Practices

12. Cloud Deployment

    Lesson 12

    • Automating AWS Deployment with Ansible
    • Querying For AWS status
    • Establishing AWS resources
    • Creating AWS Instances
    • Provisioning Integration Test Environments
    • Running Integration Tests With Ansible
    • Keeping Environments Ephemeral
    • Packer
    • Building AWS Machine Images
    • Updating and Autoscaling in AWS

13. Cloud Deployment

    Lesson 13

    • Ansible Docker Connector
    • Ansible For Container Image Building
    • Ansible For Container Registry Management
    • Ansible and Containers
    • Containers in AWS With Ansible
    • Containers and Idempotence
    • Ansible Best Practices