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Course : Ansible: Automating Server Management

Ansible: Automating Server Management






INTER
IN-HOUSE
CUSTOM

Training at your location, our location or remotely

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  2d - 14h00
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Teaching objectives
At the end of the training, the participant will be able to:
Understand the structure of Ansible (roles, tasks, playbooks, modules, etc.)
Install and configure Ansible
Use and create playbooks to manage infrastructure

Course schedule

1
Positioning of Ansible

  • Ansible and DevOps.
  • Devops & IaC (Infrastructure as Code), the source code of the infrastructure.
  • The tools Puppet, Chef, Saltstack, etc. Ansible.
  • How Ansible works.
  • Architecture: inventory, modules, playbooks, tasks, roles.

2
Installation and configuration

  • Installing and getting started with the tool.
  • The basic commands of Ansible.
  • Node configuration: ssh keys, sudo privilege escalation.
  • The configuration file.
  • The inventory: creation and use.
Hands-on work
Installing Ansible and configuring several client nodes, creating inventory and using the main commands.

3
Ad Hoc orders

  • Parallelism and Shell commands.
  • File transfers.
  • Packages with yum, apt.
  • Users and groups.
  • Services.
Hands-on work
Use of different Ad hoc commands in parallel on multiple nodes.

4
Playbooks

  • Introduction to playbooks.
  • Definition of tasks, plays.
  • Yaml syntax.
  • Variables, modules and tasks.
  • Executing a playbook.
  • Testing a playbook in a dry-run.
  • Step-by-step execution, skipping tasks.
  • Managing errors.
Hands-on work
Writing a simple playbook composed of several tasks.

5
Writing modular code

  • Notifications and Handlers.
  • Roles and includes. Tags.
  • Community modules.
  • Ansible-galaxy: Share your code.
Hands-on work
Explore the Ansible galaxy, downloading and using modules, adding tags to a playbook.

6
Advanced commands

  • Vault: data encryption.
  • Lookups.
  • Developing your own modules, debugbing a module, plug-ins.
  • Creating your own filters.
Hands-on work

7

  • Writing a playbook
  • Variables. Templates and filters.
  • Control structures: conditions, loops and blocks.
  • Prompts. Facts.
  • Writing playbooks.


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