Modern Provisioning Using Ansible
3 days
Overview
This course is designed to provide you the tools for:
- Working with Ansible
- Understand how Ansible can be used for Deployment
Prerequisites
- Basic Unix commands
- Basic Programming Concepts (control flows, conditionals, scripting)
Audience
The course is designed for DevOps, Infrastructure, or Development teams seeking to obtain a solid foundation with Ansible.
Course Content
Linux Fundamentals
- Users and Permissions
- Sudoers
- Package Managers
- Yum package manager
- Systemd
- Hands-on session
Inventory and
ad-hoc commands
- Static inventory
- Dynamic inventory
- Using Ansible and Using Ad-hoc Modules
- Inventory variables
- Host variables
- Group variables
- Hands-on session
Playbooks
- Anatomy of a Playbook
- YAML Syntax
- Anatomy of a Task
- Module and its Arguments
- Testing your playbook (dry run)
- Popular Modules
- Amdocs yum_secure module
- Hands-on session
Advanced
Playbooks
- Variables
- Play variables
- Variable files
- Extra variables
- Using variables in playbooks
- Basic variables
- Lists
- Dictionaries
- Compound variables
- Registering output of tasks in variables
- Facts
- Conditions
- Loops
- Handlers
- Hands-on session
Structuring
Best Practices
- Structuring playbooks
- Includes
- Variable includes
- Play includes
- Task includes
- Dynamic vs Static includes
- Hands-on session
Roles
- Introduction to roles
- Building Simple roles
- Invoking Roles from playbooks
- Ansible Galaxy
- Using Ansible Galaxy Roles in Playbooks
- Hands-on session
Intro to Python
- Introduction to Python
- Python Packages and resources
- Hands-on session
Custom Modules
- Custom Modules
- Custom Modules Parameters
- Ansible Python Support for Modules
- Communicating Back to Ansible
- Testing custom modules
- Hands-on session
