Mastering Ansible

Description

"Mastering Ansible" is a comprehensive course designed for IT professionals and DevOps engineers looking to harness the full power of Ansible's latest version. This course covers cutting-edge techniques for infrastructure automation, configuration management, and application deployment.

Prepare to dive into the practical world of Ansible. Through hands-on exercises and real-world scenarios, you'll learn to craft scalable, idempotent, and self-documenting Ansible code. By the end of this course, you'll be ready to design and implement enterprise-grade automation solutions using Ansible's latest features and industry-leading methodologies.

Additionally, this course serves as excellent preparation for the Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) exam, focusing on Red Hat Ansible Automation. The curriculum aligns with key exam objectives, including automating configuration management, application deployment, and orchestrating advanced system administration tasks. You'll gain the practical skills and in-depth knowledge necessary to confidently approach the RHCE certification, a valuable credential for IT professionals seeking to validate their Ansible expertise.

Course

  • Training Type: Instructor-led, on-site or online
  • Duration: 4 days
  • Skill Level: Intermediate
  • Training Reference: ITG-D-201

Objectives

  • Best practices for writing efficient and maintainable playbooks
  • Working with modules
  • Advanced YAML syntax and Jinja2 templating
  • Using variables
  • Managing Task Control and using conditionals
  • Role-based architecture and modular design
  • Security best practices and vault usage
  • Ansible AWX

Target Audience

The "Mastering Ansible" course is designed for individuals interested in gaining in-depth knowledge and practical skills related to using Ansible for automation, configuration management, and orchestration.

  • IT professionals and system administrators looking to enhance their automation skills
  • DevOps engineers aiming to improve their infrastructure management capabilities
  • Cloud engineers seeking to streamline deployment and configuration processes
  • Site reliability engineers (SREs) interested in automating complex system tasks
  • Software developers wanting to incorporate infrastructure-as-code practices
  • IT managers and team leads planning to implement Ansible in their organizations
  • Professionals preparing for the Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) exam
  • Existing Ansible users looking to upgrade their skills to the latest version and best practices
  • IT consultants who need to design and implement automation solutions for clients

Course Outline

  • Getting Started with Ansible
  • Working with Playbooks
  • File Modules
  • Variables
  • Templates
  • Jinja2 Filters
  • Task Control
  • Loops
  • Error Handling
  • Ansible Vault
  • Linux System Roles
  • Collections
  • Ansible AWX

Prerequisites

This course is tailored for individuals with some prior experience in systems administration or DevOps practices and a basic familiarity with Linux command-line operations. However, if you're a motivated beginner willing to put in extra effort, you can also grasp the concepts and excel in this course.

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