What is the focus of this course?

Simplilearn’s Ansible 2.0 course for beginners will get you started with installation of Ansible 2.0 and gradually guide you to create your own playbooks, manage an entire cloud region, and configure network devices across Linux or Windows operating systems.

What are the course objectives?

By the end of Ansible 2.0 course, you will be adept in Ansible 2.0 basics and do the following:

• Install and setup Ansible 2.0
• Learn the fundamentals of Ansible 2.0
• Create a real-world playbook
• Comprehend loops, blocks, strategies, and galaxies
• Understand the use of Ansible 2.0 in Cloud domai

Who should do this course?

The course enables beginners to automate their organizational infrastructure with ease.

Course preview

• Lesson 01 - Ansible 2 – Whats It All About  
  • 1.1 The Course Overview 
  • 1.2 What Is Ansible? 
  • 1.3 Why Ansible?  
  • 1.4 Demonstration – From Bash to Ansible 
  • 1.5 Course Layout
  • 1.6 Basic Ansible Vocabulary 
  • 1.7 New Features in Ansible 2.0  
• Lesson 02 - Setting up the Learning Environment 
  • 2.1 Creating an Ansible Home Base 
  • 2.2 Installing Ansible  
  • 2.3 Bleeding-Edge Ansible Installation  
  • 2.4 Setting up our Test Environment 
  • 2.5 Target Machine Requirements
  • Lesson 03 - Jumping into Ansible 2  
• 3.1 Ansible Configuration Hierarchy  
  • 3.2 Ansible Hosts Inventory File  
  • 3.3 Ad-Hoc Commands  
  • 3.4 Introduction to Playbooks 
  • 3.5 Playbook Structure  
  • 3.6 Introduction to Modules 
  • 3.7 Common Modules  
  • 3.8 Variables and Facts
• Lesson 04 - A Real-World Playbook 
  • 4.1 Real-Life Playbook: Mattermost Deployment 
  • 4.2 Real-Life Playbook: Walkthrough
• Lesson 05 - Loops, Blocks, Strategies, and Galaxies  
  • 5.1 Debugging and Troubleshooting  
  • 5.2 Conditionals and Control Flow  
  • 5.3 Templating, Control Flow, and Iteration in Jinja2  
  • 5.4 YAML Basics 
  • 5.5 Ansible Blocks  
  • 5.6 Performance and Execution Strategies  
  • 5.7 Ansible Galaxy        
  • 5.8 Security
• Lesson 06 - Ansible in the Cloud
  • 6.1 Ansible in the Cloud  
  • 6.2 Ansible AWS Demo  
  • 6.3 Ansible Tower