Apprentice Level

Introduction to Ansible v2.7

By Brock Tubre

Explore how to use Ansible to address the challenge of server automation.

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3 hours

39 Lessons

About the course

Server automation is a challenge facing many growing enterprises. Ansible is one solution that can scale to a large enterprise, which makes it an attractive solution. In this course, we’ll talk about some of the features that allow Ansible to address the server automation challenge and cover some of the technology and how to use it.

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Chapter 1 7 Lessons Introduction and Overview 17:48

An Important Note About A Cloud Guru and Linux Academy Courses
1:18

Welcome!
1:41

Introduction and Overview
4:13

What is Ansible?
3:14

Why, When, and Where
2:09

Other Tools
3:13

Section Summary
2:00
Chapter 2 8 Lessons Setting Up Environment 39:39

Setting Up Environment
1:53

Setup Inventory
6:40

Installing Ansible
2:03

Installing Ansible (Windows - WSL)
11:00

Ensure End-To-End
5:18

Setup Inventory File
6:12

Ansible Configuration
4:56

Section Summary
1:37
Chapter 3 2 Lessons Tasks 8:51

Tasks
7:34

Section Summary
1:17
Chapter 4 7 Lessons Playbooks 56:45

Playbooks
11:54

Playbooks in Action
5:10

Constructing System
15:43

Configuring Load Balancer
9:34

Service Handlers
5:21

Congregate Playbooks
6:48

Section Summary
2:15
Chapter 5 4 Lessons Using Variables 21:23

Using Variables
10:36

Vars Dictionary
4:06

Registered Variables
5:08

Section Summary
1:33
Chapter 6 7 Lessons Quick Pick Ansible Topics 44:45

Roles
10:40

Check Mode
4:09

Error Handling
6:09

Tags
5:46

Ansible Vault
7:44

Prompts
6:54

Section Summary
3:23
Chapter 7 4 Lessons Conclusion 6:29

Future of Automation
3:19

Clean Up
1:17

Farewell
0:49

Thanks and Congratulations!
1:04

What you can expect

You will become familiar with the different use cases for Ansible and the different ways to use its functionality.
You will learn how to set up an Ansible environment.
You will get comfortable with configuring a sandbox Ansible environment.
You’ll get busy creating simple playbooks to execute SSH commands on multiple inventory servers.
You’ll learn about users, groups and variables and how to implement them.
You’ll pick up ways to test and troubleshoot your Ansible environment.

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Introduction to Ansible v2.7

About the course

An Important Note About A Cloud Guru and Linux Academy Courses

Welcome!

Introduction and Overview

What is Ansible?

Why, When, and Where

Other Tools

Section Summary

Setting Up Environment

Setup Inventory

Installing Ansible

Installing Ansible (Windows - WSL)

Ensure End-To-End

Setup Inventory File

Ansible Configuration

Section Summary

Tasks

Section Summary

Playbooks

Playbooks in Action

Constructing System

Configuring Load Balancer

Service Handlers

Congregate Playbooks

Section Summary

Using Variables

Vars Dictionary

Registered Variables

Section Summary

Roles

Check Mode

Error Handling

Tags

Ansible Vault

Prompts

Section Summary

Future of Automation

Clean Up

Farewell

Thanks and Congratulations!

What you will need

What you can expect

Practice alongside courses in Cloud Playground

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