Automation with Ansible (Coursera)

Offered by Whizlabs,
Automation with Ansible (Coursera)

Automation with Ansible is a fundamental course for deploying end-to-end automation. This course provides a secure and stable foundation for automating your environment. Ansible Automation helps organizations to create, share and manage the automation of tasks from development and operations to security and network teams.

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This course provides 3 hours of training videos which are segmented into modules. The course concepts are easy to understand through lab demonstrations. In order to test the understanding of learners, every module includes Assessments in the form of Quiz and In Video Questions. A mandatory Graded Questions Quiz is also provided at the end of every module.
Basic Linux system administration skills are asset for learning Automation with Ansible. By the end of this course, Learners will be able to
-Explore Ansible's components such as its ease of deployment, learning and debugging
-Demonstrate working of portal that acts as a central repository for sharing, reusing and locating Ansible-related Content
-Overview of Ansible Playbooks, which is a YAML based automation tool that developers can use to automate various tasks.
-Elaborate Automation with Ansible for remote clients in order to explain Ansible inventory files

What You Will Learn

  • Demonstrate working of portal that acts as a central repository for sharing, reusing and locating Ansible-related Content
  • Explore Ansible's components such as its ease of deployment, learning and debugging
  • Overview of Ansible Playbooks, which is a YAML based automation tool that developers can use to automate various tasks.
  • Elaborate Automation with Ansible for remote clients in order to explain Ansible inventory files

Syllabus

WEEK 1
Course Introduction and Setting up Ansible
Welcome to Week 1 of Automation with Ansible Course. This week's focus is on setting up a virtual machine (VM) and configuring the environment for using Ansible, an open-source automation tool. You will also learn how to install and configure Ansible, which includes configuring its settings, inventory, and modules. Additionally, you will learn about using Ansible in the cloud, including setting up and configuring Ansible for use with cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure. By the end of the week, you should be familiar with the basic concepts and tools needed to use Ansible for automating tasks and managing infrastructure.

WEEK 2
Automation with Ansible-Part 1
Welcome to Week 2 of Automation with Ansible Course.This week's focus is on implementing Ansible automation with Playbooks and Ad-hoc tasks for remote clients. You will learn how to deploy Apache using a Playbook, configure Ansible to work with SSH, manage remote hosts using Playbooks and Ad-hoc tasks, and use the ansible command-line tool to run Ad-hoc tasks. By the end of the week, you should be able to automate tasks on remote hosts using Ansible, both through Playbooks and quick, one-off Ad-hoc tasks.

WEEK 3
Automation with Ansible-Part 2
Welcome to Week 3 of Automation with Ansible Course.This week's focus is on managing variables, implementing task control, and using conditions, loops, and handlers in Ansible. You will also learn about Ansible security best practices, using Ansible Vault to encrypt sensitive data, and using Ansible Tower for managing Ansible deployments. By the end of the week, you should be able to manage variables, implement task control, use conditions, loops, and handlers, and have an understanding of Ansible security and management tools.

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