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Introduction to Ansible

Learn the fundamentals of cloud computing, including its benefits, architecture, and key providers.

  • 🔹What is Ansible?
  • 🔹Overview of Ansible and its features
  • 🔹Agentless architecture and benefits
  • 🔹Ansible installation
  • 🔹Verifying the installation
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Ansible Basics

  • 🔹Inventory Files
  • 🔹Defining and understanding static and dynamic inventory
  • 🔹Organizing hosts into groups
  • 🔹Ansible Ad-Hoc Commands
  • 🔹Running ad-hoc commands on remote systems
  • 🔹Simple tasks like restarting services, checking uptime, and gathering facts
  • 🔹Writing clean and correct YAML files for Ansible playbooks
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Ansible Playbooks

Learn the fundamentals of cloud computing, including its benefits, architecture, and key providers.

  • 🔹Playbook Structure
  • 🔹Understanding the anatomy of a playbook (tasks, handlers, variables, and conditionals)
  • 🔹Example: Installing Apache on remote servers
  • 🔹Using Ansible facts to gather system information
  • 🔹Working with variables and variable files
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Ansible Modules

  • 🔹 Introduction to Modules
  • 🔹What are modules and how they work in Ansible
  • 🔹Package management (apt, yum, etc.)
  • 🔹File management (copy, fetch, template)
  • 🔹 Service management (systemd, service)
  • 🔹 Basics of writing your own modules
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Roles and Reusability

  • 🔹Introduction to Roles
  • 🔹 Structuring playbooks with roles for reusability
  • 🔹Creating and Using Roles
  • 🔹Breaking down a playbook into reusable roles
  • 🔹Ansible Galaxy
  • 🔹Finding, downloading, and using roles from Ansible Galaxy
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Conditionals, Loops, and Handlers

  • 🔹Conditionals
  • 🔹Using when statements to add conditional logic to playbooks
  • 🔹Iterating over tasks with loop and with items
  • 🔹Notifying handlers and triggering changes based on conditions
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Error Handling and Debugging

  • 🔹Using ignore errors, failed when, and block/rescue for error handling
  • 🔹Techniques for debugging Ansible playbooks
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Advanced Ansible Concepts

  • 🔹Introduction to Jinja2 templating in playbooks and roles
  • 🔹Dynamically generating configuration files
  • 🔹Encrypting sensitive data with Ansible Vault
  • 🔹Best practices for managing secrets in playbooks
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Ansible in the Cloud

  • 🔹Introduction Cloud Automation with Ansible
  • 🔹Dynamic Inventory for Cloud
  • 🔹o Managing dynamic inventories in cloud environments