Why?

Devminds Trainings are on-site, customizable and hands-on. We combine theoretical knowledge, live coding and exercises enabling you to use the technology in your daily work.

• Boost your productivity using automatic and consistent provisioning
• Automate the configuration of your machines and your infrastructure
• Ansible is an open source, Python based IT automation engine with a large ecosystem of extensions

What?

Introduction

• Background
• Architecture and terminology
• Prerequisites
• Installation

Creating an Inventory

• Different inventory formats
• Using hosts and groups
• Executing ad-hoc commands

Creating and Using a Playbook

• Syntax, structure, and using Ansible lint
• Authentication and privilege escalation
• Using tasks
• Executing playbooks

Using and Parameterizing Tasks

• Using: register, when, loop, changed_when, failed_when…
• Host, group, global variables, and facts
• Secrets with Ansible Vault

Creating Custom Roles

• Calling tasks
• Defining variable defaults
• Using files and templates
• Registering custom handlers

Learning Objectives

• Successful use of Ansible in a modern DevOps environment
• Creating and using custom playbooks and roles
• Automated installation and configuration of development and test environments