Ansible Course Duration:
Course Details
Understand core components of Ansible
- Inventories
- Modules
- Variables
- Facts
- Plays
- Playbooks
- Configuration files
Install and configure an Ansible control node
- Install required packages
- Create a static host inventory file
- Create a configuration file
Configure Ansible managed nodes
- Create and distribute SSH keys to managed nodes
- Configure privilege escalation on managed nodes
- Validate a working configuration using ad-hoc Ansible commands
Create simple shell scripts that run ad hoc Ansible commands
Use both static and dynamic inventories to define groups of hosts
Utilize an existing dynamic inventory script
Create Ansible plays and playbooks
- Know how to work with commonly used Ansible modules
- Use variables to retrieve the results of running commands
- Use conditionals to control play execution
- Configure error handling
- Create playbooks to configure systems to a specified state
Use Ansible modules for system administration tasks that work with:
- Software packages and repositories
- Services
- Firewall rules
- File systems
- Storage devices
- File content
- Archiving
- Scheduled tasks
- Security
- Users and groups