Ansible Configuration and Administration Bootcamp

This in-person or online Ansible Bootcamp teaches your team everything they need to know to successfully configure and administer Ansible. In this Introductory through advanced Ansible training, attendees learn first how to build playbooks, leverage modules, and configure roles. Students then learn more advanced topics including playbook construction, module utilization, node management, and more. Finally, this course deep dives into all aspects of the Ansible Tower and covers Ansible best practices. Note: This 7-day Ansible class can be divided as desired across two weeks, consecutive or non-consecutive.

Retail Price: $5,000.00

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Course Days: 7


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Skills Gained

  • Install and configure Ansible control-node and managed-node(s)
  • Create and run playbooks
  • Use standard Ansible modules
  • Create custom modules
  • Create and modify hosts (inventory) definitions
  • Create and use roles
  • Design a 'best practice' strategy for using Ansible capabilities
  • Explore Ansible Tower as a solution for graphically managing Ansible enterprise-wide
  • Perform advanced configuration for an Ansible control node and managed nodes
  • Use conditionals, loops, filters, and loopbacks in playbooks
  • Control ad-hoc and playbook output with callback plugins
  • Create and implement dynamic inventory definitions
  • Implement reusable roles capabilities and dependencies
  • Control Ansible Core operations with run-time parameters
  • Create templates to write an Ansible custom module
  • Add documentation to an Ansible customized module
  • Create and use local fact variables
  • Implement local fact variables on managed nodes
  • Write playbooks to collect data from managed nodes
  • Set up and use network device managed nodes
  • Install and do initial configuration of the Ansible Tower
  • Program and use job creation and execution in the Ansible Tower
  • Backup, restore, and update the Ansible Tower database
  • Create a Python virtual environment in the Ansible Tower
  • Interface with the Ansible Tower using the tower-cli and Ansible Core modules
  • Develop best practices for all Ansible components

 

Prerequisites

It is assumed that participants are working systems administrators, developers, and/or testers with some very basic scripting knowledge (bash, ksh, Perl or Python) and have an understanding of fundamental system utilities/commands on Linux and Windows systems.


Outline

Introduce Ansible

Describe the terminology and architecture of Ansible.

Deploy Ansible

Configure Ansible and run ad hoc commands.

Implement playbooks

Write Ansible plays and execute a playbook.

Manage variables and inclusions

Describe variable scope and precedence, manage variables and facts in a play, and manage inclusions.

Implement task control

Manage task control, handlers, and tags in Ansible playbooks.

Implement Jinja2 templates

Employ a Jinja2 template.

Implement roles

Create and manage roles.

Configure complex playbooks

Learn and replicate how Ansible executes plays and tasks using host patterns, delegation, and parallelism.

Implement Ansible Vault

Manage encryption with Ansible Vault.

Troubleshoot Ansible

Troubleshoot the Ansible control machine and managed nodes.

Install Ansible Tower and describe Ansible Tower's architecture

Explain what Ansible Tower is and demonstrate a basic ability to navigate and use its web user interface.

Create users and teams for role-based access control

Create user accounts and organize them into teams that can be used in conjunction with role-based access control to manage administration and access to organizational resources in Ansible Tower.

Create and manage inventories and credentials

Build inventories of machines to manage and set up credentials that will allow Ansible Tower to run jobs on those systems.

Manage projects for provisioning with Ansible Tower

Create basic projects and job templates in Ansible Tower that can be used to run Ansible playbooks in order to provision and configure managed systems.

Construct advanced job workflows

Use additional features of job templates to improve workflows by creating simple job launch forms and templates to launch multiple jobs in sequence, and also to report job success or failure through external notification systems.

Update inventories dynamically and compare inventory members

Use advanced techniques to work with inventories, including dynamic generation of inventories from centralized information sources and monitoring of hosts in an inventory for configuration deviations or differences.

Maintenance and administration of Ansible Tower

Perform routine maintenance and administration on Ansible Tower and establish a basic familiarity with the command line tools and the Ansible Tower API.



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