Pragmatic Ansible

Online

workshop

2 days

certificate

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

About the trainer

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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Pricing

Company

~~10000€~~8500€per teamof up to 20 attendees

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Price includes all materials and cloud infrastructure usage.

If training workshop happens on client premises then trainer's traveling expenses will be added to the final price.

VAT charges may apply.

All training courses are a subject to the cancellation policy.

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