Ansible: Solution setup

Learn about Ansible with this training. Understand Playbook, roles, modules and general concepts of DevOps applicable to Ansible.

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Duration: 2 days
Regular price: On request

Course outline

Duration : 2 days

Audience	System administrators
Prerequisites	Basic knowledge of Linux systems
Objectives	You will understand the architecture of Ansible (role, task, playbook, module,...) You will know how to set-up Ansible You will be able to use and create playbooks to manage your infrastructure
Contents	Introduction to Ansible Introduction to the centralized configuration Ansible's specific concepts Comparison with other solutions (Puppet/Chef/SaltStack) Setting up Ansible Installation Initial configuration Ansible CLI Managing the access with SSH and sudo Settling the inventory Usage of the main ad-hoc modules shell / command service yum / apt Ansible playbooks Interest Syntax and YAML ansible-playbook command Defining (tasks) Notifications and handlers Creation of reusable code Definition and usage of variables The roles notion Usage of additional modules and roles user/group MySQL Modules for managing cloud infrastructure (ec2/openstack) Finding more roles on Galaxy Ansible language Variables Facts Loops Conditions Inclusions “ pre “ and “ post “ tasks Best practices Templates (jinja2) Basic syntax Tests, conditions and loops Filters Going further Develop your own modules Creation of jinja2 filters Ansible Tower: the GUI

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