Learn Ansible from scratch or update an existing project? Automate your System Administrator's day-to-day tasks with the Ansible Open Source IT automation tool.

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In an era of IT environments, automation is no longer a luxury—it's a necessity. Ansible, an open-source IT automation tool, has become a go-to solution for streamlining IT tasks. This comprehensive course aims to equip you with both fundamental and advanced Ansible knowledge.

You'll start by installing Ansible, understanding its architecture, and diving into inventory management and playbook creation. Next, you'll explore variables, conditional statements, loops, handlers, roles, and collections. After that, the course dives into Ansible for Linux-specific tasks and troubleshooting techniques to resolve common problems like connection failures, missing parameters, and syntax errors. 

After completing this course, you'll have gained a robust understanding of Ansible, with the ability to create efficient playbooks, manage inventory, troubleshoot common problems, and automate a wide range of IT tasks. These skills will provide a strong foundation for a thriving career in IT infrastructure management.

Automating IT Infrastructure with Ansible

Ansible releases are packaged and distributed in two packages: `ansible-core` and `ansible`.
The `ansible-core` package contains the minimum of the Ansible platform. 
It includes all the command-line tools, the main components, and the `ansible.builtin` collection. The `ansible` community package includes `ansible-core` plus some additional collections.

## Installing an Ansible package

You can choose any of the following ways to install the Ansible community package:

- Install the latest release with our OS package manager for certain Linux distributions.
- Install with `pip` (the Python package manager).

## Ansible core

**Ansible core** is a command-line tool primarily for developers and users who want to install only the necessary collections.


Ansible releases are packaged and distributed in two packages: `ansible-core` and `ansible`.
The `ansible-core` package contains the minimum of the Ansible platform. 
It includes all the command-line tools, the main components, and the `ansible.builtin` collection. The `ansible` community package includes `ansible-core` plus some additional collections.

# Installing an Ansible package

You can choose any of the following ways to install the Ansible community package:

- Install the latest release with our OS package manager for certain Linux distributions.
- Install with `pip` (the Python package manager).

# Ansible core

**Ansible core** is a command-line tool primarily for developers and users who want to install only the necessary collections.


Learn how Ansible is packaged and what some of the advantages of the ansible and ansible-core packages are.

Getting Started

Ansible Language

Ansible for Linux

Ansible Troubleshooting

Appendix: Ansible Installation

Conclusion

Ansible Packages

Installing an Ansible package

Ansible core