Course Outline
Overview of Ansible
- Historical context and operational drivers for Ansible adoption within federal environments
- Comparative analysis against competing configuration management platforms, such as SaltStack
- Advantages and constraints associated with implementing Ansible in government IT infrastructure
Operational Demonstrations
- Deployment of Apache web server configurations
- Management of configuration state transitions
Playbook Components and Features
- Roles
- Inclusion directives
- Variable management
- Template filters
- Conditional logic execution
- Iterative processing (Loops)
- Accelerated Mode functionality
- Asynchronous task execution
- Task parallelism (Pooling)
- Dry run simulation for change verification
- Delegation, rolling updates, and local action execution
- Error handling mechanisms
- Data lookup plugins
- User prompts and input validation
- Execution tags for selective control
- Vault encryption for sensitive data
- Interactive playbook execution workflows
Module Management
- Installation procedures for additional modules
- Survey of high-utility modules for federal operations
Additional Resources and Tools
- Ansible Galaxy community repository
- AWX Project interface for centralized management
- Verification and testing methodologies
- YAML syntax standards
Requirements
Proficiency in Linux and Unix system administration is mandatory for this role.
Testimonials (7)
Trainer knowledge in the subject was very Good.
Fayaz - Skillsoft
Course - Managing Configuration with Ansible
Stay positive and excited as you are. It was the best training experience in my career!!
Mateusz Feliszewski - Global Knowledge Network Training Limited
Course - Managing Configuration with Ansible
Methodology theory and practice.
DAVID ARENAS FRANCO - SGS GULF LIMITED
Course - Managing Configuration with Ansible
The knowledge and helpfulness of the trainer.
Graham Gill - Global Knowledge
Course - Managing Configuration with Ansible
Staring at the complete begin, and building up slowly with a lot of examples
Jeroen Ledeboer - Global Knowledge
Course - Managing Configuration with Ansible
That the trainer gave as tasks to try or to guess what is the solution is (instead of presenting the solutions).
Jeannette Eichholz
Course - Managing Configuration with Ansible
The most thing I liked was how this training was organized. It was interactive and we had access to the training's solutions and there was no need to ask for help at minor issues. This Titus could focus on major issues.
