Ansible (GL380)

This course is for systems administrators desiring to automate provisioning, configuration management, service deployment, and operational processes.

Ansible Overview

• Why Ansible?

• Overview of architecture

• Quiz: Architecture

• Inventory

• Inventory patterns

• Inventory plugins

• Quiz: Inventory and patterns

• Demo: Introducing Ansible

Deploying Ansible

• Installing

• Demo: Installing Ansible

• Configuration files

• Demo: Configuration files

• Module syntax help

• Running ad hoc commands

• Demo: Running ad hoc commands

• Dynamic inventory

• Demo: Dynamic inventory

• Lab tasks

– Deploying Ansible

– Ad hoc commands

– Dynamic inventories

Playbooks Basics

• Writing YAML files

• Playbook structure

• Host and task execution order

• Command modules

• Significant module categories

• File manipulation

• Network modules

• Packaging modules

• System storage

• Account management

• Security

• Services

• Demo: Playbooks

• Lab tasks

– Playbook basics

– Playbooks—command modules

– Playbooks—common modules

Variables and Inclusions

• Variables

• Variables—playbooks

• Variables—inventory

• Variables—registered

• Variables—magic

• Facts

• Demo: Facts

• Inclusions

• Lab tasks

– Variables and facts

– Inclusions

Jinja2 Templates

• Jinja2

• The template module

• Expressions

• Quiz: Jinja2 templates

• Filters

• Methods

• Tests

• Lookups

• Control structures

• Demo: Jinja2 templates

• Lab tasks

– Jinja2 templates

Task Control • Loops

• Loops and variables

• Demo: Constructing flow control

• Conditionals

• Demo: Conditionals

• Handlers

• Tags

• Handling errors

• Lab tasks

– Task control

Roles • Roles

• Role usage details

• Creating roles

• Quiz: Role structure

• Deploying roles with Ansible Galaxy

• Demo: Deploying roles with Ansible Galaxy

• Lab tasks

– Converting playbooks to roles

– Creating roles from scratch

– Ansible Galaxy roles

Optimizing Ansible • Connection types

• Delegation

• Parallelism

• Callback plugins

• Lab tasks

– Optimizing Ansible

Ansible Vault • Configuring Ansible Vault

• Vault IDs

• Executing with Ansible Vault

• Demo: Configuring Ansible Vault

• Lab tasks

– Ansible Vault

Appendix A: Network automation • Network automation

• Simple network module examples

• Network modules: Gotchas

• Simple IOS modules Examples

• General purpose ios modules

Experience with Linux shell, text editing, and basic systems administration