Course_Introduction_To_Ansible

An A Cloud Guru Course - Introduction To Ansible

Being able to configure and update your environments is an important part of DevOps. Doing these tasks quickly and easily is even more important. Ansible helps solve the problem of manually configuring servers one-by-one. Using Ansible as an automation tool System Administrators can update and configure servers from a single machine. This course is a way to learn how to setup Ansible and a sandbox environment to learn in. You’ll learn how to manage servers using Ansible playbooks, stand up a new environments, and monitor your cloud infrastructure.

Prepared by Brock Tubre 2018

Lab files for A Cloud Guru, Course - Introduction To Ansible

What is covered?

• The history and why Ansible is used today.
• Some of the other orchestration tools like Chef, Puppet, and Saltstack
• How to setup Ansible locally and configure local environment to utilize Ansible.
• Learn how to run Ansible command and build playbooks
• Learn how to stand up a simple infrastructure from nothing to fully functional configured environment.
• Learn about other Ansible topics that make your playbooks and Ansible setup more modular and more robust.

Please note, this is provided as-is, neither I, nor A Cloud Guru support this code. If you do identify any errors, then please identify and we will attempt to fix on a best efforts basis.

IMPORTANT - We recommend creating a new account or lab specs for this workshop. Using an existing account could cause damage or disruption to the resources in that account.

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October 2018

Initial Creation.