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Course Overview

Everyone who works in IT knows how the pressures of the job are ever-increasing, and the toll these can take, and if you are an engineer working in the fields of DevOps or Networking, you will know this only too well. Manual changes are not only time-consuming for you, but they are also often mundane, and fail to fully utilize your skills.

In this course, you will learn about why automation is so important to the future of system administration tasks, and how automation can make tasks repeatable and reliable. Moreover, you will understand how automation can support you in furthering your career in technology and give you back time to fully utilize your skills.

This course will take you from zero to having a solid foundation in automating your common system administration tasks using the open-source, cross-platform automation tool called Ansible. The course will help you understand how easy it is to get started with automation, and how you can very rapidly learn to automate those mundane tasks, freeing your time for more interesting work. In addition, you will be given a solid grounding in good automation practices so that you can further your career in system administration.

This course is focused on helping you fully appreciate the need for the automation of system administration tasks and best practices and standards to automate tasks in an effective and efficient manner.

What You Will Learn

  • Learn how to start automating common tasks today with no prior knowledge!
  • Learn the key concepts of Ansible
  • such as inventories
  • playbooks
  • roles
  • and ad-hoc commands.
  • Learn why each of these concepts are important in the real-world and be able to apply them confidently.
  • Learn how to leverage repositories like Ansible Galaxy to speed up your automation journey.
  • Gain the confidence to start automating your routine tasks today.

Program Curriculum

  • What Is Ansible?
  • Installing Ansible
  • Running Your First Automated Task
  • Finding Ansible Documentation
  • Understanding YAML
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  • Chapter 1 Quiz

  • What Is an Ansible Inventory?
  • Ad-hoc Commands vs Playbooks
  • Reusable Code with Ansible Roles
  • Working with Ansible Facts
  • What are Ansible Collections?
  • Chapter 2 Quiz

  • Playbook idempotency
  • Preparing to Write Your First Playbook
  • Writing Your Playbook
  • Testing Your Playbook
  • Debugging Your Playbook
  • Chapter 3 Quiz

  • Learn the Goals of Ansible Roles
  • Role Structure
  • Porting Playbooks to Roles
  • Running a Role
  • Chapter 4 Quiz

  • Learn about Variables in Ansible
  • Variable Order Precedence
  • Inventory Variables
  • Defining Variables
  • Chapter 5 Quiz

  • Why Protect Secrets?
  • Understanding Ansible Vault
  • Incorporating Vaults into Your Playbook
  • Preventing Secret Data from Being Logged
  • Chapter 6 Quiz

  • What Is Ansible Galaxy?
  • Using Ansible Galaxy
  • Incorporating Facts into Playbooks
  • Templating Configuration Files
  • Chapter 7 Quiz

  • Managing User Accounts
  • Collecting Server Logs
  • Configuring Cron Jobs
  • Managing Disks
  • Chapter 8 Quiz
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Instructor

James Freeman

James Freeman has worked in the technology industry since 1998, taking on a number of roles but for the last decade has worked exclusively in client facing roles. During this time, he spotted a real need to making changes predictable, reliable, and removing the mundane nature of technology work. Around 8 years ago he started working with Ansible and has gone on to implement this in a variety of manners for many household names and large enterprises. He has a passion for learning and teaching others, and is a serial author and public speaker, and has had four books published (to date) on the subject of automation with Ansible. His experience in client facing and teaching roles means he always maintains a down to earth, real-world perspective on technology and believes that the real gift of knowledge is in its sharing.

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