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COURSE DESCRIPTION
We offer advanced Ansible course materials from industry experts at economical prices. We use state of the art facilities to provide you with the finest Ansible training .
Curriculum
Syllabus of Ansible Training Course in
Module: 1 Introduction
Why configuration management is a critical part of any DevOps team
Strengths and weaknesses of Ansible
Web scale
How Ansible is different from other CM tools like Chef and Puppet
Getting started with Ansible terminology
Ansible and YML for describing your environments
Module 2: Getting set up
Some prerequisites
Getting set up on a Mac
Getting set up on Linux
Getting set up on Windows
Testing with Vagrant
Using SSH keys to connect to your target nodes
Module 3: Inventory
Basic inventory example
Hosts and groups
Module 4: Ansible Playbooks
A useful directory structure to keep your Ansible code organized
Using git to manage your Ansible code
A first look at a playbook to install and configure NTP time synchronization
Module 5 : Provisioners
Connecting Ansible to your preferred cloud provider (we’ll use DigitalOcean)
Creating a new server instance
Dynamic inventory
Dynamic inventory on Amazon AWS
Mixing static and dynamic inventory
Module 6: Highly available infrastructure with Ansible
Spec up our inventory and host groups
Using roles
Configure our database backend
Configure our web server front-end
Configure a replicated filesystem
Configure centralized logging
Module 7: Application deployments with Ansible
Deploying our app from SCM to our local Vagrant environment
How we would deploy that code to production once tested by QA
Updating our application
How Ansible compares to alternatives such as Capistrano
Module 8: Docker containers with Ansible
Brief intro to Docker
The synergy of containerization and automation
Using Ansible to build Docker containers
MySQL containers
Web application containers
Data storage containers
Module 9: Testing and continuous integration
Unit, integration and functional testing
Automating your testing using GitHub and Travis CI
Module 10: Preparing for Ansible back at work
Real-world use case: Using Ansible to automate CM and application pipelines through continuous integration, release, deployment and operations
We’ll review your own environments and processes and evaluate how to best integrate Ansible’s configuration management for your own needs