Ansible: Zero to Production Ready

Takeaway Skills

Start as a beginner, leave production-ready.

Build a container-centric Ansible development environment.

Crawl, walk, run, sprint your way through learning Ansible

Start by running ad-hoc commands and by the end you’ll be deploying Ansible with commits and pull requests!

Start as a beginner, leave production-ready.

Build a container-centric Ansible development environment.

Crawl, walk, run, sprint your way through learning Ansible

Start by running ad-hoc commands and by the end you’ll be deploying Ansible with commits and pull requests!

Course Overview

Ansible is one of the leading tools for software provisioning, configuration management, and application deployment. In this course, you will learn the ins and outs of Ansible with the goal of managing and automating your infrastructure and code’s deployment. You will learn how to set... See More

How You'll Learn

Hands-on coding environments

You don’t get better at swimming by watching others. Coding is no different. Practice as you learn with live code environments inside your browser.

Faster than videos

Videos are holding you back. The average video tutorial is spoken at 150 words per minute, while you can read at 250. That‘s why our courses are text-based.

No set-up required

Start learning immediately instead of fiddling with SDKs and IDEs. It‘s all on the cloud.

Progress you can show

Built in assessments let you test your skills. Completion certificates let you show them off.

Hands-on coding environments

You don’t get better at swimming by watching others. Coding is no different. Practice as you learn with live code environments inside your browser.

Faster than videos

Videos are holding you back. The average video tutorial is spoken at 150 words per minute, while you can read at 250. That‘s why our courses are text-based.

No set-up required

Start learning immediately instead of fiddling with SDKs and IDEs. It‘s all on the cloud.

Progress you can show

Built in assessments let you test your skills. Completion certificates let you show them off.

Course Contents

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1. Getting Started

Introduction

Learning Outcomes

2. Ansible Development with Containers

Introduction

Build and Run a Container

Variables, Volumes, and DockerHub

Summary

3. Connect to the Cloud

Introduction

Connect to AWS

Connect to Azure

Summary

4. Starting at the Source

Introduction to Git

Connect to the Repository

Get hands on with Git Commands

Summary

5. Getting Started with Ad-Hoc Commands and Playbooks

Introduction to Ad-Hoc Commands

Create a Playbook

Summary

Quiz on Ad-Hoc Commands and Playbooks

6. Deploy an Ansible Development Environment

Introduction

Deploy to AWS

Deploy to Azure

Connect to the Environment

Summary

7. Putting the Ansible Environment to Work

Ad-hoc Commands against Remote Hosts

Playbooks against Remote Hosts

Configure an Nginx Web Server

Configure a Windows IIS Web Server

Summary

Quiz on Remote Hosts Management using Ansible

8. Take Inventory of the Infrastructure

Introduction to Inventories

Use Groups

Organize Hosts and Group Variables

Secure Secrets with Ansible Vault: Use Encrypted Files

Secure Secrets with Ansible Vault: Use Encrypted Strings

Summary

Quiz on Taking Inventory of the Infrastructure

9. Build Reusable Configurations

Introduction

Build a Site

Make it Reusable with Ansible Roles

Decoupling Ansible Roles

Summary

Quiz on Building Reusable Configurations

10. Dynamic Inventories for Scaling

Introduction

AWS - Create a Dynamic Inventory

AWS - Use Keyed Groups

Azure - Create a Dynamic Inventory

Azure - Use Keyed Groups

Summary

Quiz on Dynamic Inventories

11. Build a CI \ CD pipeline for Ansible with Github Actions

Introduction

Release Pipeline for Ansible

Using Github Action to Lint Ansible

Deploying the Ansible Code

Create a Deploy Ansible Workflow

Setting a Failure Exit Code in a Docker Container

Summary

12. Appendix

Ansible Directory Layout

Where to Go from Here?