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Ansible Fundamentals
This course will teach you how to automate the configuration of systems, deployment of software, and orchestration of more complex IT tasks, ultimately enabling you to manage complex, multi-tier IT infrastructure with ease and efficiency.
What you'll learn
Managing IT systems manually can be time-consuming, error-prone, and difficult to standardize. Automation is the solution to these challenges, and Ansible is a leading tool in this domain. In this course, Ansible Fundamentals, you’ll learn to automate your IT infrastructure, thereby enhancing efficiency and reducing errors.
First, you’ll explore the foundations of Ansible, its architecture, and components, paving the way for you to set up your own Ansible environment. Next, you’ll dive into Ansible's core elements - playbooks and modules, empowering you to automate a vast array of system administration tasks. Finally, you’ll understand how to manage inventories, utilize variables for customization, and delve into advanced topics like roles and templates.
By the end of this course, you’ll have gained the knowledge and skills needed to use Ansible effectively, equipping you to automate and manage your IT infrastructure with increased proficiency and reliability.
Table of contents
- Overview | 1m 32s
- Defining Configuration Management | 58s
- Introducing Ansible | 4m
- Ansible Basic Architecture | 4m
- Ansible's Competitors | 37s
- Understanding Infrastructure as Code | 56s
- Understanding YAML | 2m 47s
- Demo: Exploring the Ansible Environment | 5m 44s
- Demo: Exploring the Ansible Inventory | 5m 52s
- Demo: Testing Node Connectivity | 5m 53s
- Summary | 1m 24s
- Overview | 29s
- Ansible Playbooks | 5m 55s
- Ansible Modules | 1m 15s
- Modules vs. Plugins | 1m 43s
- Ansible Plugin Example Use Case | 1m 39s
- Ansible Galaxy | 2m
- Ansible Collections vs. Roles | 2m 44s
- Running Ansible Playbooks | 1m 23s
- About Tags | 1m 21s
- Ansible CLI Examples | 1m 11s
- About Privilege Escalation | 1m 14s
- Demo: Troubleshooting the Inventory | 4m
- Demo: Analyzing a Playbook | 5m 45s
- Demo: Running a Playbook | 5m 53s
- Demo: Refactoring a Playbook | 1m 32s
- Summary | 1m 10s
- Overview | 31s
- Ansible Best Practices | 2m 52s
- Role Directory Structure, Revisited | 2m 2s
- Troubleshooting Ansible | 2m 8s
- Ansible Debugging: Examples | 1m
- Privilege Escalation, Revisited | 1m 5s
- Leveraging Ansible Vault | 1m 44s
- Demo: Debugging Ansible Modules Part 1 | 1m 31s
- Demo: Debugging Ansible Modules Part 2 | 1m 48s
- Demo: Examining Debug Output | 2m 7s
- Summary | 43s
About the author
Timothy Warner is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in Cloud and Datacenter Management who is based in Nashville, TN.
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