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Course Overview

In today's fast-paced and ever-evolving digital landscape, security automation is essential to managing complex infrastructures and ensuring consistent, reliable protection against vulnerabilities. Ansible, an open-source automation platform, has emerged as a powerful tool that simplifies the management of IT systems by automating configuration, deployment, and security tasks. Learning to use Ansible for security automation helps professionals eliminate human error, reduce response times to security incidents, and scale secure configurations across large environments, making it a vital skill in modern DevSecOps and IT operations.

This course begins with an overview of why automation is critical in cybersecurity and introduces Ansible as a powerful automation framework. Learners are guided through Ansible installation, the use of ad-hoc commands, and the creation of structured playbooks. The course dives into essential features like variables, loops, conditionals, and templates, enabling learners to write dynamic and reusable playbooks. It continues by exploring modular playbook structures, Ansible roles, and real-world administrative tasks such as user management, service control, network configuration, patching, and system hardening. Finally, learners are introduced to Ansible Tower, a web-based interface that enhances visibility and control over Ansible operations.

This course empowers learners to automate security tasks efficiently, reduce manual workloads, and implement scalable, repeatable security solutions using Ansible and Ansible Tower.

What You Will Learn

  • What is Ansible and how to deploy it
  • How to create and manage Ansible inventories and config files
  • What are Ansible modules and how to run ad-hoc commands
  • What are playbooks and how to create Ansible playbooks
  • How to create more complex playbooks using variables, loops and conditional statements
  • What is Ansible Tower
  • How to perform hardening and patch management using Ansible

Program Curriculum

  • The Importance of Automation
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  • Chapter 1 Quiz

  • What is Ansible?
  • Installing Ansible
  • Chapter 2 Quiz

  • Ansible Inventories
  • Ansible Configuration Files
  • Ansible Ad-hoc Commands
  • Ansible Playbooks
  • Chapter 3 Quiz

  • Ansible Variables
  • Ansible Loops
  • Ansible Conditional Statements
  • Ansible Templates
  • Chapter 4 Quiz

  • Importing and Including Playbooks
  • Importing and Including Tasks
  • Targeting Specific Hosts
  • Chapter 5 Quiz

  • What is an Ansible Role?
  • Using Ansible Roles Within Playbooks
  • Obtaining Roles and Using Them Within Playbooks
  • Chapter 6 Quiz

  • Manage Users and Groups Using Ansible
  • Manage Services Using Ansible
  • Manage Storage Using Ansible
  • Manage Network Configuration Using Ansible
  • Patch Management with Ansible
  • Hardening with Ansible
  • Additional Ansible Module
  • Chapter 7 Quiz

  • What is Ansible Tower?
  • Deploying Ansible Tower
  • Ansible Tower Overview
  • Chapter 8 Quiz
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Instructor

Andrei Balint

Andrei Balint has a teaching experience of over 8 years and has collaborated with large organizations throughout Europe as a trainer. He has experience in both working with Red Hat Enterprise Linux as well as Ansible, focusing on system administration and automatization. Andrei has the certifications to back up his experience as his both a Red Hat Certified Engineer and Red Hat Certified System Administrator. From the security side, he is also Comptia Security+ certified and has been working as both a security consultant and trainer for multiple organization across Europe.

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