Automation with Ansible

Automation with Ansible (DO407) is designed for system administrators who are intending to use Ansible for automation, configuration, and management. Learn how to install and configure Ansible, create and run playbooks to configure systems, and learn to manage inventories. Through hands-on labs, students will learn to automate system administration tasks on managed hosts with Ansible, learn how to write Ansible playbooks to standardize task execution, centrally manage playbooks and schedule recurring execution through a web interface with Ansible Tower. Students will also learn to manage encryption for Ansible with Ansible Vault, deploy Ansible Tower and use it to manage systems, and use Ansible in a DevOps environment with Vagrant. This course is based on Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 7. Audience System and cloud administrators who need to automate cloud provisioning, configuration management, application deployment, intra-service orchestration, and other IT needs Learning Objectives Delegates will learn how to: Install and troubleshoot Ansible on central nodes and managed hostsUse Ansible to run ad-hoc commands and playbooks to automate tasksWrite effective Ansible playbooksProtect encrypted data needed for tasks with Ansible VaultUse Ansible Tower to more easily manage enterprise Ansible deploymentsWork with Ansible in conjunction with Vagrant in a DevOps environment