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Automation with Ansible

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3 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

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6 hours to complete

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3 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

14 reviews

Beginner level

Recommended experience

6 hours to complete

Flexible schedule

Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

Demonstrate working of portal that acts as a central repository for sharing, reusing and locating Ansible-related Content
Explore Ansible's components such as its ease of deployment, learning and debugging
Overview of Ansible Playbooks, which is a YAML based automation tool that developers can use to automate various tasks.
Elaborate Automation with Ansible for remote clients in order to explain Ansible inventory files

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There are 3 modules in this course

Automation with Ansible is a fundamental course for deploying end-to-end automation. This course provides a secure and stable foundation for automating your environment. Ansible Automation helps organizations to create, share and manage the automation of tasks from development and operations to security and network teams.

This course provides 3 hours of training videos which are segmented into modules. The course concepts are easy to understand through lab demonstrations. In order to test the understanding of learners, every module includes Assessments in the form of Quiz and In Video Questions. A mandatory Graded Questions Quiz is also provided at the end of every module. Basic Linux system administration skills are asset for learning Automation with Ansible. By the end of this course, Learners will be able to -Explore Ansible's components such as its ease of deployment, learning and debugging -Demonstrate working of portal that acts as a central repository for sharing, reusing and locating Ansible-related Content -Overview of Ansible Playbooks, which is a YAML based automation tool that developers can use to automate various tasks. -Elaborate Automation with Ansible for remote clients in order to explain Ansible inventory files

Module details

Welcome to Week 1 of Automation with Ansible Course. This week's focus is on setting up a virtual machine (VM) and configuring the environment for using Ansible, an open-source automation tool. You will also learn how to install and configure Ansible, which includes configuring its settings, inventory, and modules. Additionally, you will learn about using Ansible in the cloud, including setting up and configuring Ansible for use with cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure. By the end of the week, you should be familiar with the basic concepts and tools needed to use Ansible for automating tasks and managing infrastructure.

What's included

13 videos1 reading3 assignments1 discussion prompt

13 videosTotal 78 minutes

Overview of this Course5 minutes
Introduction to Ansible4 minutes
Install and Configure Ansible_Part 01 7 minutes
Install and Configure Ansible_Part 024 minutes
Setup VM and Environment_Part 014 minutes
Setup VM and Environment_Part 025 minutes
Setup VM and Environment_Part 03 8 minutes
Ansible Setup Cloud-Create Ansible Environment7 minutes
Ansible Setup Cloud-Create Virtual Machines6 minutes
Ansible Setup Cloud-Configure & Review Virtual Machine6 minutes
Ansible Setup Cloud-Examine Virtual Machine Communication7 minutes
Ansible Setup Cloud-Communicate with Ansible Machines7 minutes
Ansible Setup Cloud-Ansible Files & Commands7 minutes

1 readingTotal 10 minutes

Course Introduction and Setting up Ansible Overview10 minutes

3 assignmentsTotal 35 minutes

Install and Configure Ansible Knowledge Test10 minutes
Introduction and Ansible Cloud Setup Knowledge Test10 minutes
Week 1 Assessment15 minutes

1 discussion promptTotal 10 minutes

Meet and Greet10 minutes

Welcome to Week 2 of Automation with Ansible Course.This week's focus is on implementing Ansible automation with Playbooks and Ad-hoc tasks for remote clients. You will learn how to deploy Apache using a Playbook, configure Ansible to work with SSH, manage remote hosts using Playbooks and Ad-hoc tasks, and use the ansible command-line tool to run Ad-hoc tasks. By the end of the week, you should be able to automate tasks on remote hosts using Ansible, both through Playbooks and quick, one-off Ad-hoc tasks.

What's included

9 videos1 reading3 assignments

9 videosTotal 45 minutes

Introduction to Ansible Playbook4 minutes
Playbook Apache_Part 01 6 minutes
Playbook Apache_Part 02 6 minutes
Playbook Apache_Part 035 minutes
Automation with Ansible for Remote Clients- Overview4 minutes
Automation with Ansible for Remote Clients-Lab5 minutes
Ansible Automation with Ad-hoc Tasks- Overview2 minutes
Ansible Ad-hoc Commands_Part 01 7 minutes
Ansible Ad-hoc Commands_Part 025 minutes

1 readingTotal 10 minutes

Automation with Ansible-Part 1 Overview10 minutes

3 assignmentsTotal 35 minutes

Playbook for Ansible Automation Knowledge Test10 minutes
Ansible Automation with Ad-hoc Tasks Knowledge Test10 minutes
Week 2 Assessment15 minutes

Welcome to Week 3 of Automation with Ansible Course.This week's focus is on managing variables, implementing task control, and using conditions, loops, and handlers in Ansible. You will also learn about Ansible security best practices, using Ansible Vault to encrypt sensitive data, and using Ansible Tower for managing Ansible deployments. By the end of the week, you should be able to manage variables, implement task control, use conditions, loops, and handlers, and have an understanding of Ansible security and management tools.