Mastering Ansible Step by Step
Course Contents
1 Introducing Ansible
- Overview of Ansible Architecture
- Ansible Components
- Overview of Ansible Deployments
- Describing Ansible Inventory
- Summary
2 Deploying Ansible
- Installing Ansible
- Guided Exercise: Installing Ansible
- Managing Ansible Configuration Files
- Guided Exercise: Managing Ansible Configuration Files
- Running Ad Hoc Commands
- Guided Exercise: Running Ad Hoc Commands
- Managing Dynamic Inventory
- Guided Exercise: Managing Dynamic Inventory
- Lab: Deploying Ansible
- Summary
3 Ansible Installation on Red Hat Linux 8
- Overview of Ansible Installation
- Online Ansible Installation
- User's Account Setup for Passwordless Authentication
- Offline Ansible Installation ( When there is no internet available on Control Node )
4 Implementing Playbooks
- Writing YAML Files
- Guided Exercise: Writing YAML Files
- Implementing Modules
- Guided Exercise: Implementing Modules
- Implementing Ansible Playbooks
- Guided Exercise: Implementing Ansible Playbooks
- Lab: Implementing Playbooks
- Summary
5 Managing Variables and Inclusions
- Managing Variables
- Guided Exercise: Managing Variables
- Managing Facts
- Guided Exercise: Managing Facts
- Managing Inclusions
- Guided Exercise: Managing Inclusions
- Lab: Managing Variables and Inclusions
6 Implementing Task Control
- Constructing Flow Control
- Guided Exercise: Constructing Flow Control
- Implementing Handlers
- Guided Exercise: Implementing Handlers
- Implementing Tags
- Guided Exercise: Implementing Tags
- Handling Errors
- Guided Exercise: Handling Errors
- Lab: Implementing Task Control
- Summary
7. Ansible Roles
- About Ansible Roles
- How do we create Ansible Roles
- Lab Session to create roles
8. Industrial project to Automate Patching on Multiple Linux Server using Ansible Playbook
- Overview about Linux Patching
- Automate Linux Patching using Ansible
- Verify application/Database processes are running or not
- Decision point to start patching
- Upgrade all the packages on the server
- Check if reboot required after the kernel update
- Install the specific kernel version using Ansible Playbook.
- Various Labs to understand the Ansible Playbook for patching
9. Industrial project for Stop/Start Control M appl/db
- Overview of project
- Designing of Ansible playbooks
- Lab Sessions
10. Create Automation tool using Ansible & Shell
- Overview of Automation Tool
- Concept of Automation Tool
- Communication between Ansible Server with managed hosts
- Front look of Automation Tool
- What we are achieving from this Automation tool.
- Pre-validation Configuration (To capture pre-change configuration details)
- User Administration
1. User Creation
2. User Removal
3. Group Add
4. Password Reset
- Run Ad Hoc Command
- Health Check Statistics
1. Memory Utilization
2. CPU Utilization
3. Overall I/O Activities
4. Reports run queue and load average
5. Top Memory Consuming processes
6. Top CPU Consuming Processes
7. Shared Memory
- Design of Automation Tool
- Design Front Look using case statement
- Practice Lab Session on case Statement -1
- Practice Lab Session on case Statement -2
- Color Fonts in desinging the tool
- Headline & Selecting the target servers
- Lab sessions
1. If..else..elif statement
2. Loops
3. Sed – Stream Editot
4. Awk
- The case esac statement
- Last lecture
Who this course is for:
- IT professionals across a broad range of disciplines who need to perform essential administration tasks and automation.
- Graduate Students and also for those who are looking for a job in Automation using Ansible (RedHat Linux) & wants to get hands-on practical experience on Automation & build up a base on Ansible.