Course Outline

• Introduce Ansible: Describe Ansible concepts and install Red Hat Ansible Engine.
• Deploy Ansible: Configure Ansible to manage hosts and run ad hoc Ansible commands.
• Implement playbooks: Write a simple Ansible Playbook and run it to automate tasks on multiple managed hosts.
• Manage variables and facts: Write playbooks that use variables to simplify management of the playbook and facts to reference information about managed hosts.
• Implement task control: Manage task control, handlers, and task errors in Ansible Playbooks.
• Deploy files to managed hosts: Deploy, manage, and adjust files on hosts managed by Ansible.
• Manage large projects: Write playbooks that are optimized for larger, more complex projects.
• Simplify playbooks with roles: Use Ansible roles to develop playbooks more quickly and to reuse Ansible code.
• Troubleshoot Ansible: Troubleshoot playbooks and managed hosts.
• Automate Linux administration tasks: Automate common Linux system administration tasks with Ansible.