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.

Configuration Management Using Ansible

# Who is this course for?

This course is for learners who want to understand how to configure a network of computers programmatically all at once using configuration management with Ansible and other tools. 

The course is also targeted toward learners who want to explore how to use #key# modules:These are the reusable units of scripts that Ansible uses to manage target hosts. #key# with other core components of Ansible to automate tasks on servers with the help of a network communication protocol like SSH.

# Why take this course?
Ansible is an important tool for configuration management, which makes it easy to manage large infrastructure setups. Therefore, this course aims to reinforce the creation of Ansible tasks using the YAML syntax.

In this course, you will learn to write ad hoc commands to execute basic tasks and then move on to set up fully fledged playbooks that execute a series of coordinated actions. This course is completely hands-on because it includes multiple code playgrounds for interactivity as well as a final project to experiment with the use of Ansible for configuration management. 

# Course learning outcomes

Taking this course will enable you to fully understand configuration management along with its different available tools. Moreover, the course will familiarize you with the fundamentals of the Ansible architecture and control/managed nodes. This course will also empower you with the knowledge of writing playbooks and Ansible ad hoc commands in addition to organizing a host inventory. Last, you will gain insight into Ansible variables and some other important concepts like Ansible roles.

Gain insight into the objectives of the course.

Getting Started

What Is Configuration Management?

Basics of Ansible

Major Concepts in Ansible

Ansible Variables and Other Elements

Manage Configuration with Ansible

Wrap Up

Introduction to the Course

Who is this course for?

Why take this course?

Course learning outcomes