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About the Course

In this course, we are going to focus on the following learning objectives: - Understand core Ansible concepts - Write an Ansible Playbook using the concepts By the end of this course, you will have a solid grasp constructing Ansible Playbooks. You will be ready to work with Ansible in your own environments from the ground up. In this 1-hour long project-based course on Ansible for DevOps: Write your first Playbook, you will work with some of the core concepts of Ansible. We will be setting up servers which will act as one control machine and multiple host machines. We will then configure Ansible on our clean Ubuntu server. We will learn the core concepts that make up a Playbook including Plays, Tasks, Modules, Notify Handlers and Var injection. You will get to write your own Playbook which will use the learned concepts. We will learn how to make changes in our Playbooks and see how that affects our host machines. By the end of this course you will be comfortable going forward building your own Ansible files, and accessing the documentation yourself. Please note this course requires you to have a credit card to be able to set up your own Linode account if you don’t already have one....

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By Lucia J

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Nov 10, 2021

Very clearly explained the basics of ansible with hands on experience. I will surely go for the next course :)

By Rogelio M A

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Dec 4, 2021

Very instructive and clearly

By BAQUERIZO C C A

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Aug 8, 2022

all good

By Luciano S

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Dec 13, 2022

nice

By Manaf B A A K

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Aug 7, 2021

thx

By Scott H

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Jul 8, 2024

Good content, and the project is applicable to a real-world use case. Presented clearly and moved along at a good pace - just enough detail to understand the tasks at hand. There were at least a couple times the presenter made errors (wrong console for example) and instead of editing that out, the student has to unnecessarily watch as corrections are made. The instructor also leads the learner through disabling the firewall services on public facing web servers, when creating a simple firewall rule to allow traffic on the new port would have been a similar amount of work and much safer guidance. What I primarily did not like about the course, was after already investing a fair amount of time watching the content and getting setup, the instructor then informs us that in order to proceed with the interactive hands-on portions of the course, you need to sign up for an account with a third-party cloud provider and give them your credit card so they can charge you for resource usage. Why aren't potential students advised of this requirement up front, before they start the course? Learners in 2024 expect integrated compute / virtualized environments included in any legitimate platform / course. A final word of caution, be certain to close the course browser tab when you are not actively working on the course. I left it open in the background for a few days, and Coursera proceeded to lock me out of the session. I submitted a support ticket and multiple requests for status, with no response for 17 days. At that point, I started over, losing all my progress and configuration / content.