A3ANS101: Ansible 101 – Essentials

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About this Course

Ansible is used to bring structure and consistency to system deployments, implementations, and changes. Students tempted to write a complex Python script to do a networking automation task will discover that the problem is already solved by an Ansible module. Lots of unnecessary Python scripts can be eliminated by using Ansible whenever possible. Ansible is used for both network and server administrators alike.
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Audience Profile

• DevOps Engineers
• System and Cloud Administrators
• Network Engineers and Developers
• Python Developers

At Course Completion

• Overview of Ansible and critical modules
• AI LLM prompt engineering for generating Ansible solutions
• Ansible collections for content delivery
• Building roles for code reuse
• YAML formatting
• Playbook construction and order of execution
• Jinja2 templating
• Static and Dynamic inventory management
• Credential Management and Encryption with Vault
• Finding solutions on Ansible Galaxy
• Version controlling code with Git

Outline

Certification
• 💻 Lecture + Lab: Alta3 Research Ansible Essentials Certification
AI LLM Toolkit
• 💻 Lecture + Lab: Large Language Model toolkit for AI Solution Assistance
Ansible Overview
• 💬 Lecture: Introduction to Ansible
Software Control Management
• 💻 Lecture + Lab: SCM Option #1 - GitHub
• 💻 Lecture + Lab: SCM Option #2 - GitLab
Ansible Basics
• 💻 Lecture + Lab: Methods for Installing Ansible
• 💬 Lecture: Static Inventory
• 💻 Lecture + Lab: Ansible Host Inventory
• 💻 Lecture + Lab: Ad-Hoc Modules and Gather Facts
• 💬 Lecture: Introduction to YAML
• 💻 Lecture + Lab: Running a Playbook
• 💻 Lecture + Lab: ansible.cfg setup
• 💻 Lecture + Lab: Building Playbooks - Bootstrap with raw, group and user Modules
• 💻 Lecture + Lab: Loops and Vars Files in Playbooks
Critical Modules
• 💻 Lecture + Lab: Ansible Module - shell
• 💬 Lecture: Fully Qualified Collection Names
• 💻 Lecture + Lab: Ansible Module - copy
• 💻 Lecture + Lab: Ansible Module - apt
• 💻 Lecture + Lab: Ansible Module - yum
• 💻 Lecture + Lab: Ansible Module - get_url and uri
• 💻 Lecture + Lab: Ansible Module - file
• 💻 Lecture + Lab: Ansible Module - git
• 💻 Lecture + Lab: Ansible Module - lineinfile and replace
Templating
• 💬 Lecture: Templating with Jinja
• 💻 Lecture + Lab: Ansible Module - template
Beyond Basics
• 💻 Lecture + Lab: Debug, Loops, and YAML Lists
• 💻 Lecture + Lab: When Conditionals, YAML Dictionaries, and Jinja
• 💻 Lecture + Lab: Playbook Tags
• 💻 Lecture + Lab: Playbook Vars Prompt
• 💻 Lecture + Lab: Ansible Handlers and Listeners
• 💻 Lecture + Lab: Ansible Error Handling
• 💬 Lecture: Ansible Roles
• 💻 Lecture + Lab: pre_tasks, roles, tasks, post_tasks, and handlers
• 💻 Lecture + Lab: Ansible Playbook Output Logging
• 💻 Lecture + Lab: Ansible Keywords - register and when
• 💻 Lecture + Lab: Reading Variables into Playbooks
Plugin System
• 💻 Lecture + Lab: Ansible Lookup Plugin
• 💻 Lecture + Lab: Ansible Callback Plugins
• 💻 Lecture + Lab: Ansible Plugin System
• 💬 Lecture: Ansible Connection
Networking
• 💻 Lecture + Lab: Exploring Switches with Ansible
• 💻 Lecture + Lab: network_cli Playbook
• 💻 Lecture + Lab: Backup Cisco, Juniper, Arista, and More
• 💻 Lecture + Lab: Network Playbooks and Vendor Specific Modules
• 💻 Lecture + Lab: Simplifying Network Playbooks with Agnostic Modules
Roles and Collections
• 💬 Lecture: Augmenting Ansible with Collections
• 💻 Lecture + Lab: Ansible Galaxy
• 💻 Lecture + Lab: Ansible Collections
Cloud
• 💬 Lecture: Ansible Dynamic Inventory
• 💻 Lecture + Lab: YAML, JSON, Dynamic, and Cloud Inventories
• 💬 Lecture: Configuring the Cloud with Ansible
• 💬 Lecture: Ansible and Openstack
• 💬 Lecture: Ansible and Azure
• 💬 Lecture: Ansible and AWS
Security
• 💻 Lecture + Lab: Ansible Vault
Testing
• 💻 Lecture + Lab: Roles and Molecule
Programming
• 💻 Lecture + Lab: Ansible Module - script
• 💻 Lecture + Lab: Writing an Ansible Module with Python
Triggering
• 💻 Lecture + Lab: Ansible AWX

Prerequisites

• Coding experience in another language serves as an adequate prerequisite