Automation with Ansible Playbooks

• Required PPTs for this Ansible Course
• Introduction: Story Before Ansible or Any Other Configuration Management Tools
• Ansible Architecture
• $7 Million Cybersecurity Scholarship by EC-Council
• Chapter 1 Quiz

• Ansible Installation and Configuration Part - 1 (Installation)
• Ansible Installation and Configuration Part - 2 (Configuration)
• Ansible Directory Structures
• How to Disable Host Key Checking?
• Inventory File with Groups and Group of Groups
• Different Locations of ansible.cfg File with Priority
• Review on Ansible Architecture
• Installing Ansible Engine on RHEL 8
• Chapter 2 Quiz

Introduction to Ad-hoc Commands

• Basic Syntax for Ansible Ad-hoc Commands
• How Ansible Works? (Executing Ad-hoc Commands or Playbooks)
• Transfer a File from Ansible Engine to Nodes using Copy Module
• Download a File from Ansible Managed Nodes to Ansible Engine
• Create or Delete a File or Directory on Managed Nodes
• List of Different Modules to Work with Files
• Install a Package like git, httpd, mysql, git on Linux Systems using yum Module
• Command Module
• Chapter 3 Quiz

• Introduction to Ansible Facts
• Chapter 4 Quiz

• Inventory Types and Working with AWS EC2 Dynamic Inventory Script
• Simple Custom Dynamic Inventory Script Creation
• Chapter 5 Quiz

• Working with Managed Nodes using Raw Module
• Chapter 6 Quiz

Password Working with Managed Nodes using a Password

• Password Authentication
• Executing Ansible Tasks with Default and Different Users on Managed Nodes
• Chapter 7 Quiz

• Basic Introduction to Ansible Variables
• Chapter 8 Quiz

• Introduction to Playbooks with Task and Play Concepts
• Writing Simple Playbooks for Basic Understanding
• Basic Key Points to Run Ansible Playbooks
• Chapter 9 Quiz

• Print Any Message (Ex: Welcome to Playbooks) using Playbook?
• Variable and Data Types
• Data Structures/Data Collections
• How to Read a Variable and Print using Ansible Playbook?
• How to Read a Variables from yaml/json File?
• Working with Command Line Arguments
• Working with Gather Facts Variables or setupt Module Variables
• Working with inventory_hostname and hostvars Variables
• Chapter 10

• Installing and using Visual Studio Code Editor for Ansible Playbooks
• Chapter 11 Quiz

• Arithmetic Operators on Numbers
• Filters and Methods of Ansible Playbooks
• Chapter 12 Quiz

• Comparison Operators
• Membership Operators and Test Operators
• Logical Operators
• Chapter 13

• Settings for Ubuntu Server to Consider it as a Managed Node
• How to Use When Conditional Statement? (Explanation with Simple Playbook)
• Inline Conditional Statement
• Chapter 14 Quiz

• Basic Usage of Handlers
• Chapter 15

• Introduction to Loops
• Chapter 16 Quiz

• Working with Tags and Skip Tags
• Chapter 17 Quiz

• Error Handling Part - 1
• Error Handling with Block and Rescue Part - 2
• Chapter 18 Quiz

• Reusable Tasks with Import and Include
• Chapter 19 Quiz

• Usage of local_action and delegate_
• Chapter 20 Quiz

• Java and Tomcat Installation and Configuration using Template Module
• Chapter 21 Quiz

• Introduction to Template Module with Variables
• Template Variables, Conditional Statements and Loops
• Chapter 22 Quiz

• GitHub Link for Playbooks
• Ansible Environment Setup for AWS Provisioning
• Launch EC2 Instances with Multiple Security Groups and Tags
• Simple Playbooks to Start Stop and Terminate EC2 Instances
• Single Playbook to Start Stop and Terminate Instance
• EC2 Tags Help to Start, Stop and Terminate Instances
• Cleanup Tag-less EC2 Instances using Playbooks
• Chapter 23 Quiz