1. Introduction FREE CHAPTER

• Preview of the course: Automation using Ansible - Step by Step
• Introduction: Story before Ansible or Any other configuration Management tools
• Ansible Architecture

2. Installing and Configuring Ansible

• Ansible Installation and Configuration Part-1 (Installation)
• Ansible Installation and Configuration Part-2 (Configuration)
• Ansible Directory Structures
• How to disable host key checking?
• Inventory file with Groups and Group of Groups
• Different locations of ansible.cfg file with priority
• Review on Ansible Architecture
• Installing Ansible Engine on RHEL 8

3. Ansible Ad-hoc commands

• Introduction to Ad-hoc commands | Basic syntax for Ansible Ad-hoc commands
• How Ansible Works? (Executing Ad-hoc commands or Playbooks)
• Transfer a file from Ansible Engine to Nodes using copy module
• Download a file from Ansible Managed Nodes to Ansible Engine
• Create or Delete a file or directory on Managed Nodes
• List of different modules to work with files
• Install a package like git, httpd, mysql, git on Linux Systems using yum module
• Command Module

4. Ansible Facts and Variables

• Introduction to Ansible Facts
• How to create and work with custom facts?

5. Ansible Inventories (Static and Dynamic Inventories)

• Inventory Types and Working with AWS EC2 Dynamic Inventory Script
• Simple Custom Dynamic Inventory Script creation

6. How to work with Managed nodes if managed nodes are not installed with Python

• Working with managed nodes using raw module

7. Password Authentication setup and explanation

• Working with Managed Nodes using a Password | Password Authentication
• Executing Ansible tasks with default and different users on Managed Nodes

8. Ansible Variables

• Basic introduction to Ansible variables

9. Introduction to Ansible Playbooks

• Introduction to Playbooks with task and play concepts
• Writing Simple Playbooks for basic understanding
• Basic Key Points to run Ansible Playbooks

10. Basic concepts to write Playbooks (Working with different variables)

• Print any message (ex: welcome to Playbooks) using playbook?
• Variable and data types
• Data Structures/ Data Collections
• Simple playbook to understand the usage of register and set_fact
• How to read a variable and print using ansible playbook?
• How to read a variable from yaml/json file?
• Working with command line arguments
• Working with Gather facts variables or setup module variables
• Working with inventory_hostname and hostvars variables

11. Visual Studio Code Editor for Ansible Playbooks

• Installing and using Visual Studio Code Editor for Ansible Playbooks

12. Operations on strings and numbers using Playbooks (Filters and Methods)

• Arithmetic operators on numbers
• Simple practice on Arithmetic Operators
• Filters and Methods of Ansible Playbooks

13. Operators to work with tasks

• Comparison operators
• Membership operators and Test Operators
• Logical operators

14. Conditional Statements

• Settings for Ubuntu server to consider it as a Managed Node
• How to use when conditional statement? (Explanation with simple playbook)
• Inline conditional statement

15. Introduction to handlers

• Basic usage of Handlers

16. Loops

• Introduction to loops

17. Tags

• Working with tags and skip tags

18. Error Handling (ignore_errors,failed_whenblock, rescue and always)

• Error Handling part 1
• Error Handling with block and rescue part 2

19. Ansible reusable concepts with: import_tasks,include_tasks

• Reusable tasks with import and include

20. loacal_action vs delegate_to

• Usage of local_action and delegate_to

21. Tomcat Installation and Configuration using Playbook

• Java and Tomcat installation and configuration using template module

22. Template module

• Introduction to template module with variables
• Template variables, conditional statements and loops

23. AWS Provisioning Using Ansible

• Ansible Environment setup for AWS Provisioning
• Launch EC2 Instances with multiple security groups and Tags
• Simple playbooks to start stop and terminate ec2 instances
• Single playbook to start stop and terminate Instance
• EC2 Tags help to start, stop and terminate instances
• Cleanup Tag-less EC2 Instances using Playbooks
• Generate CSV Reports using ansible Playbooks for ec2 Instances

24. Ansible Vault to Protect Ansible Playbooks with Encryption

• Ansible-Vault

25. Ansible-Roles

• Converting a playbook into to Ansible Roles