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Advanced Ansible Playbooks with Roles, Variables, and Handlers
In this lab, you’ll practice building modular and reusable Ansible playbooks using roles, variables, and handlers. When you’re finished, you’ll have a structured automation workflow that improves efficiency and maintainability across different server environments.
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Getting Started in the Lab Environment
Here are the initial instructions and explanation of the lab environment. Read this while your environment is busy creating itself from nothing. Yes, this violates physics; we know. How fun!
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Structuring Playbooks with Roles
To start, you will manually create an Ansible role to organize your automation tasks efficiently.
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Using Variables and Jinja2 Templates
In this challenge, you will use preloaded variables and Jinja2 templates to customize playbook execution.
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Implementing Handlers and Error Handling
To finish things, you will set up handlers and implement error-handling techniques for reliable automation.
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The Last Challenge
Welcome to the final challenge! This is your last chance to experiment in the environment. Clicking Finish Lab will end this little world that flittered into existence just for you.
What's a lab?
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Guided walkthrough
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