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Configuration Management Using Ansible

7 Courses
6 Labs
24 Hours
Skill IQ

These courses are not approved or sponsored by Red Hat. \ \ This skill focuses on all the basics and fundamentals needed to get you up and running with Ansible. You’ll begin with the basics like understanding configuration management and creating your first Ansible playbook. You’ll then expand and go deeper into the intricacies of Ansible and the use cases you’ll encounter down the line. By the end of this path, you’ll be well versed in Ansible and be ready to implement it in your environments, be it system administration or CI/CD pipelines.

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Configuration Management Using Ansible

These courses are not approved or sponsored by Red Hat. \ \ This skill focuses on all the basics and fundamentals needed to get you up and running with Ansible. You’ll begin with the basics like understanding configuration management and creating your first Ansible playbook. You’ll then expand and go deeper into the intricacies of Ansible and the use cases you’ll encounter down the line. By the end of this path, you’ll be well versed in Ansible and be ready to implement it in your environments, be it system administration or CI/CD pipelines.

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What You'll Learn
  • Getting Ansible Installed and running
  • Creating your first Ansible Playbook
  • Diving deeper into advanced playbook features and capabilities
  • Managing connections to Linux-based managed hosts
  • Running automation tasks with ad hoc commands
  • Implementing Ansible inventory and host files
  • Creating and using Ansible roles
  • Managing secrets in Ansible
  • Installing and using Red Hat Ansible Tower
  • Testing playbooks from the ansible-playbook command line
  • Investigating issues by using modules
  • Investigating issues using the playbook debugger
  • Validating playbooks using ansible-lint
  • Integrating Ansible and Docker
  • Integrating Ansible with the Cloud
Prerequisites
  • Viewers should have experience working with Configuration Management principles as well as the general principles of DevOps tools and methodologies.
Related topics
  • Configuration Management
  • Puppet
  • Chef
  • DevOps
  • Systems Administration
  • CI/CD
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