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Gain insights into Ansible's core features like inventory, playbooks, and roles. Delve into writing playbooks, using Jinja2, and organize tasks for efficient, stable IT infrastructure management.

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Configuration management plays a pivotal role in maintaining a stable and organized IT infrastructure by enabling the systematic gathering of information from remote hosts, facilitating server provisioning, and streamlining application upgrades or deployments. You will learn the core features of Ansible, such as inventory, variables, playbooks, roles, and handlers, which serve as the building blocks for configuration management. You will learn how to write playbooks that define and execute complex orchestration tasks with ease. Next, you’ll learn how to use roles to maintain consistency across configuration management projects and how to harness the power of Jinja2 to apply logic and control structures and generate configuration files dynamically. After completing this course, you will be equipped with the necessary skills for customizing configurations, organizing automation tasks efficiently, and maintaining a desired state for your infrastructure.

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WHAT YOU'LL LEARN

An understanding of Ansible and its application to managing configuration for remote hosts

Familiarity with Ansible architecture, including playbooks, inventory, modules, and plugins

Working knowledge of installing NGINX with Ansible, including writing playbooks, working with tasks and handlers, and defining roles

Familiarity with variables, loops, conditionals statements, and Jinja2 templating in Ansible

Hands-on experience with creating inventory files, variables, roles, writing playbooks, and working with handlers using Jinja2 templating in Ansible

An understanding of Ansible and its application to managing configuration for remote hosts

Content

32 Lessons1 Project4 Quizzes

Getting Started

1 Lessons

Get familiar with using Ansible for configuration management through hands-on exercises.

Introduction to the Course

What Is Configuration Management?

4 Lessons

Grasp the fundamentals of automated system configurations, idempotency, and key configuration management tools.

Introduction to Configuration Management

The Concept of Idempotency in Ansible

Configuration Management Tools

Quiz: What Is Configuration Management?

Basics of Ansible

11 Lessons

Examine Ansible's fundamentals, setup, configuration, and efficient management of infrastructure.

Basics of Ansible

Why Use Ansible?

Configuring NGINX with Ansible

The Ansible Control Node

Ansible Managed Nodes

Basic Project Setup for Ansible

Writing an Inventory

Running Ad Hoc Commands

Quiz: Basics of Ansible

Exercise: Writing an Inventory

Solution: Writing an Inventory

Major Concepts in Ansible

9 Lessons

Grasp the fundamentals of YAML, Ansible modules, tasks, playbooks, handlers, and roles for effective automation.

Quiz: Major Concepts in Ansible

Exercise: Working with Roles

Solution: Working with Roles

Ansible Variables and Other Elements

6 Lessons

Deepen your knowledge of Ansible variables, loops, conditionals, and Jinja2 templating for dynamic configurations.

Basics of Variables

Working with Variables

Loops

Conditionals

Basics of Jinja2 Templating

Quiz: Ansible Variables and Other Elements

Manage Configuration with Ansible

Project

Wrap Up

1 Lessons

Simplify complex topics like Ansible's key concepts and hands-on project applications.

Conclusion

Deploy a Web Application Using Ansible

Project

Certificate of Completion

Showcase your accomplishment by sharing your certificate of completion.

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Kayode Sakeye

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