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Pragmatic Ansible

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This is a two-day deep-dive into infrastructure automation and management with the help of Ansible. The simplicity, elegance and power of Ansible playbooks and roles will give you a head-start with any automation tasks: server provisioning, automated deployments, rolling updates, server state audit. Ansible can handle everything, starting from simple installation and configuration management to complex orchestrations of your server and network device mesh.

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What's Inside

Day 1

  • Ansible terminology: play, playbook, control machine, inventory, module, role
  • Ansible installation: minimal requirements, Python and Python modules, local and remote modes
  • Implementing simple playbooks
  • Handling logic in playbook: variables, facts and conditionals
  • Configuration templating with Jinja2
  • Using Ansible default facts and defining custom facts
  • Complex interactions through tasks, handlers and tags
  • Managing inventory: static vs dynamic
  • Rolling updates and delegation
  • Structuring playbooks: inclusions and roles

Day 2

  • Working with Ansible Galaxy and externalizing dependencies
  • Creating Ansible modules to handle complex abstractions
  • Hiding secrets with Ansible Vault
  • Debugging Ansible roles and playbooks
  • Testing Ansible roles and playbooks
  • Multi-host management with Tower and Foreman
  • Managing containers with Ansible
  • Implementing full infrastructure-as-code delivery pipeline with Ansible

What You Get

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Unique content - real-life use cases, modern infrastructure, CI/CD/GitOps principles shown in practice.

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Certificate of attendance - you will get a shareable online certificate.

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Exam after the course - you may pass an optional 1-hour exam and get your score printed on the certificate.

video-call

Workshop happens online - join from the convenience of your office or home.

video-recording

Video recordings will be available after the course - you can revisit some topics later.

live

Live and interactive - you can ask questions in the chat or over audio and get live clarifications.

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Q&A session in the end of each day - you will to get answers to more complex questions in a 1-hour long Q&A session.

quiz

Quizzes and polls during the course - learning should be fun!

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Practical exercises with solutions - lots of simple and not-so-simple tasks to practice with during the course; Solutions will be provided afterwards.

home

Additional home work - for those who want to practice more after the course; Homework will be reviewed and supplemented by constructive feedback.

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Lifetime e-mail support - you can get answers on anything related to the course content as well as advice based on your company specific situation.

Andrey Adamovich

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Andrey works as a free-lance DevOps consultant offering his expertise in implementing DevOps initiatives, selecting automation tooling, switching to infrastructure-as-code and immutable infrastructure and constructing software delivery pipelines.

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When Does it Happen

calendar17-18 October, 2024

Pricing

Individual

discounted1199899per attendee 
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Team Player

discounted1099799per attendeewhen registering 3 and more
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Company

discounted100008500per teamof up to 20 attendees
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VAT charges may apply.

All training courses are a subject to the cancellation policy.

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