Course Name: AwA – Automation with Ansible

The Duration: 5 Days

The Overview:

The purpose of this course is to teach participants how to install and configure

Ansible on a management workstation and prepare managed hosts for

automation.

What You Will Learn:

• Installing Ansible/Red Hat Ansible Engine on control nodes.
• Creating and updating inventories of managed hosts and manage

connections to them.

• Automating administration tasks with Ansible playbooks and ad hoc commands.

• Writing effective Ansible playbooks at scale.
• Protecting sensitive data used by Ansible with Ansible Vault.
• Reusing code and simplify playbook development with Ansible roles.

The Course Index:

– Describing the aArchitecture of Ansible.

– The installation of Ansible and running ad hoc commands.

– Learn how to write Ansible plays and execute a playbook.

– Learn how to describe variable scope and precedence, manage variables and

facts in a play, and manage inclusions.

– Learn how to manage task control, handlers, and tags in Ansible playbooks.

– Learn how to create and manage roles.

– Learn how to configure connection types, delegations, and parallelism.

– Managing encryption with Ansible Vault.

– Troubleshooting the Ansible control machine and managed nodes.

– Review tasks from the Automation with Ansible.

– Automate common Linux system administration tasks with Ansible.

– Demonstrate skills learned in this course by installing, optimizing, and

configuring Ansible for the management of managed hosts.