Automation with Ansible Playbooks - Hands On !!

What you'll learn:

Requirements:

• PC or Laptop with internet Connection
• There is no formal prerequisites for this course; however, previous system administrator experience on other operating system would be very beneficial.

Description:

Mastering Ansible Step by Step

Course Contents

1 Introducing Ansible

• Overview of Ansible Architecture

• Ansible Components

• Overview of Ansible Deployments

• Describing Ansible Inventory

• Summary

2 Deploying Ansible

• Installing Ansible

• Guided Exercise: Installing Ansible

• Managing Ansible Configuration Files

• Guided Exercise: Managing Ansible Configuration Files

• Running Ad Hoc Commands

• Guided Exercise: Running Ad Hoc Commands

• Managing Dynamic Inventory

• Guided Exercise: Managing Dynamic Inventory

• Lab: Deploying Ansible

• Summary

3 Ansible Installation on Red Hat Linux 8

• Overview of Ansible Installation

• Online Ansible Installation

• User's Account Setup for Passwordless Authentication

• Offline Ansible Installation ( When there is no internet available on Control Node )

4 Implementing Playbooks

• Writing YAML Files

• Guided Exercise: Writing YAML Files

• Implementing Modules

• Guided Exercise: Implementing Modules

• Implementing Ansible Playbooks

• Guided Exercise: Implementing Ansible Playbooks

• Lab: Implementing Playbooks

• Summary

5 Managing Variables and Inclusions

• Managing Variables

• Guided Exercise: Managing Variables

• Managing Facts 

• Guided Exercise: Managing Facts

• Managing Inclusions

• Guided Exercise: Managing Inclusions

• Lab: Managing Variables and Inclusions 

6 Implementing Task Control

• Constructing Flow Control

• Guided Exercise: Constructing Flow Control

• Implementing Handlers

• Guided Exercise: Implementing Handlers

• Implementing Tags

• Guided Exercise: Implementing Tags

• Handling Errors

• Guided Exercise: Handling Errors

• Lab: Implementing Task Control

• Summary

7. Ansible Roles

• About Ansible Roles

• How do we create Ansible Roles

• Lab Session to create roles

8. Industrial project to Automate Patching on Multiple Linux Server using Ansible Playbook

• Overview about Linux Patching

• Automate Linux Patching using Ansible

• Verify application/Database processes are running or not

• Decision point to start patching

• Upgrade all the packages on the server

• Check if reboot required after the kernel update

• Install the specific kernel version using Ansible Playbook.

• Various Labs to understand the Ansible Playbook for patching

9. Industrial project for Stop/Start Control M appl/db

• Overview of project

• Designing of Ansible playbooks 

• Lab Sessions

10.  Create Automation tool using Ansible & Shell

• Overview of Automation Tool

• Concept of Automation Tool

• Communication between Ansible Server with managed hosts

• Front look of Automation Tool

• What we are achieving from this Automation tool.

• Pre-validation Configuration (To capture pre-change configuration details)

• User Administration

       1. User Creation
       2. User Removal
       3. Group Add
       4. Password Reset

• Run Ad Hoc Command

• Health Check Statistics

      1. Memory Utilization
      2. CPU Utilization
      3. Overall I/O Activities
      4. Reports run queue and load average
      5. Top Memory Consuming processes
      6. Top CPU Consuming Processes
      7. Shared Memory

• Design of Automation Tool

• Design Front Look using case statement

• Practice Lab Session on case Statement -1

• Practice Lab Session on case Statement -2

• Color Fonts in desinging the tool

• Headline & Selecting the target servers

• Lab sessions

   

• Shell Scripting

      1. If..else..elif statement
      2. Loops
      3. Sed – Stream Editot
      4. Awk

• The case esac statement

• Last lecture

Who this course is for:

• IT professionals across a broad range of disciplines who need to perform essesntial administration tasks and automation.
• Graduate Students and also for those who are looking for a job in Automation using Ansible (RedHat Linux) & wants to get hands-on practical experience on Automation & build up a base on Ansible.
• Relational Database Design
• SQL for Beginners: Learn SQL using MySQL and Database Design
• Spring & Hibernate for Beginners (includes Spring Boot)
• Machine Learning A-Z™: Hands-On Python & R In Data Science

Course Details:

• 9 hours on-demand video
• 8 downloadable resources
• Full lifetime access
• Access on mobile and TV
• Certificate of completion

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This course introduces Ansible to the absolute beginners & System Admins to enhance skills towards Ansible.