Ansible for an Absolute Beginner - Automation - DevOps

Learn Ansible from scratch as an absolute beginner in DevOps using hands-on practice exercises

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Ansible for an Absolute Beginner - Automation - DevOps
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7 hours
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Feb 2021
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What you will learn

An Introduction to the world of DevOps

Hands-On Lab exercises

Introduction to Automation

Introduction to YAML

Deep dive into Ansible Playbooks with Hands-On excercises

Understand how to setup and manage inventory files

Understand and setup Ansible roles with the help of hands-on excercise

Understand the different variables types in Ansible

Practice building an event handling system in your playbooks using handlers

Ansible Vault and securing your Ansible deployment

Automate provisioning of servers and applications

Description

"Very clear explanation about DevOps too for beginner. It really helped me better understand the concept and what can of tasks I can automate better." ~ Student Testimonial


"Great course covering Ansible basics :) can't wait for other ones!" ~Student Testimonial


New to the world of DevOps and Automation? Awesome ,this course assumes you are an absolute beginner and I will teach you everything starting from scratch.


In this course I will start with a basic introduction to DevOps and introduce concepts such Automation, configuration management , Pull vs Push architectures and YAML and how Ansible fits into this picture. Then I'll help you setup your lab system followed by a deep dive into the various Ansible concepts such as roles, inventory files, handlers. You'll have plenty of opportunity to practice what you've learnt with hands-on lab exercises.


Real World Final Project

We'll finish strong by doing a Final Project to give you real world experience by automating deployment of Elasticsearch which is a SecDevOps tool used to analyse system/application log data using Ansible.


Why this course?

I have created this course with a focus on teaching skills from scratch, I try and explain each concept and keyword that is used during the course so that it is easier for you to learn these concepts and implement DevOps and Automation in real world. Here are some student testimonials


"I like teaching style of the instructor, he explains every concept in a very easy to understand manner. Also, the course material looks awesome so far." ~ Srikant Singh


"Amazing Tutorial.Really awesome for beginners" ~Damilola Dennis Agboola


What is Ansible?

Ansible is a radically simple IT automation engine that automates cloud provisioning, configuration management, application deployment, intra-service orchestration, and many other IT needs.

Designed for multi-tier deployments since day one, Ansible models your IT infrastructure by describing how all of your systems inter-relate, rather than just managing one system at a time.

It uses no agents and no additional custom security infrastructure, so it's easy to deploy - and most importantly, it uses a very simple language (YAML, in the form of Ansible Playbooks) that allow you to describe your automation jobs in a way that approaches plain English.

Legal Notice:

Ansible® and Ansible Tower® are registered trademarks of Ansible, Inc. in the United States and other countries. This course is not certified, accredited, affiliated with, nor endorsed by Ansible, Inc.


Content

Introduction

Introduction
Basics of Automation
Basics of DevOps
Basics of Configuration management
Pull vs Push based configuration management architecture
Ansible: A birds-eye view
Overview of YAML
Section Quiz - Introduction

Set up your lab systems

Lab Architecture
Install Virtualbox on Windows
Create your first virtual machine and install Ubuntu Linux on it
How to create a full clone of your virtual machine
Establish connectivity between your virtual machines
Setup Local name resolution
Installing software in our lab
Setup passwordless ssh
Troubleshoot Ansible lab setup issues
Section Quiz - Lab Setup

Ansible : First look

Ansible Terminology
Running your first ansible command
Navigating ansible documentation and writing your first playbook
Use Git to clone course repository
Section Quiz - Introduction to Ansible

Deep Dive into Inventory management

Inventory management explained
Working with host variables
Working with group variables
Things to know when working with variables
Inventory parameters
Section Quiz - Inventory Management

Playbooks deep dive

Working with Playbooks
Idempotency in Playbooks
Understanding Privilege escalation
Handlers : setup your event handling system in Ansible
Project: Install LAMP stack using Ansible
Section Quiz - Playbooks

Gathering Facts

How to gather facts about remote systems and use them in conditions
Section Quiz - Facts

Variables

Different variable types in ansible
register
vars_files
Defining variables dynamically
Section Quiz - Variables

Organizing your playbooks

Import and Include
Importing tasks
Roles
Section Quiz - Organising Playbooks

Ansible Vault

Using Ansible Vault
Section Quiz - Vault

Projects

Playbook to replace Sudoers file using Ansible

Practice Test

Ansible MasterClass - Practice Test

Bonus section

Introduction to Virtual Box for Beginners!
Linux Masterclass Introduction

Reviews

Shyam
February 4, 2021
Great course, the instructor is knowledgable about the course content and explains the concepts really well. Really glad I took this course.
Madhava
October 29, 2019
The course contain even detailed explanation of setting up of lab, which I was looking for in the courses. I found the right course. Let me see how will the next chapters open up. Will give the final rating after I finish the course
Simon
May 26, 2019
Real world examples would be better than test type scenarios, for example, you read to documentation and gave a contrived example of using vault but never actually used to the vault in a realistic scenario.
Fabio
March 27, 2019
Very clear explanation about DevOps too for beginner. It really helped me better understand the concept and what can of tasks I can automate better.
Srikant
March 26, 2019
I like teaching style of the instructor, he explains every concept in a very easy to understand manner. Also, the course material looks awesome so far.

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