Advanced Ansible for Automation and DevOps

Course details

This training program includes 2 complete courses, carefully chosen to give you the most comprehensive training possible.

The first course, Getting Started with Core Features in Ansible 2, covers understanding the core features in Ansible 2. Learn playbooks, roles, variables, modules, and plugins. This course teaches you the key new features in Ansible 2 and gives an introduction to how to create Ansible playbooks and modules. You will also learn modular configuration using roles to simplify your tasks even more. You will learn to overcome security, automation, and deployment concerns by implementing Ansible playbooks. By the end of this course, you will have learned how to create and install custom modules and plugins which can be integrated to automate processes. You will speed-up software delivery from development to production by automating tasks and deliver applications much more efficiently.

The second course, Mastering Ansible, covers the power of Ansible to expedite scalable orchestration, DevOps, and automation. This professional video course on Ansible guides the user through a multitude of topics in order to understand and professionally master Ansible. It aims to help you master Ansible while tackling and learning multiple topics. It starts with Ansible's architecture and how to provide effective scalable automation. Then we move on to installing and configuring it with various platforms. Further, we look into Ansible modules and playbooks with YAML syntax and execute it. Next, you will get to know about advanced Ansible playbooks, and even structure them. You will learn to use Ansible with cloud services and containers and provision it with AWS and Docker. Finally, you will master troubleshooting, validating, and testing with Ansible.

By the end of this course, you'll understand the core features in Ansible 2. Learn playbooks, roles, variables, modules, and plugins as well as exploit the power of Ansible to expedite scalable orchestration, DevOps, and automation!

About the Authors :

Prateek Jain is an enthusiastic DevOps Engineer with the necessary drive and determination to work with organizations to build large platforms, with a focus on end-to-end automation, the cloud, continuous delivery, and infrastructure automation. He is a senior DevOps Engineer and Security Chief in the current organization. He specializes in security and automation.

James Spurin is an IT professional with over 15 years working in a variety of technology fields including internet technologies, automation, software development, storage, and Unix administration. He holds an MSc with Distinction in Computer Science, Software Engineering from Liverpool University. Professionally he has worked for a variety of major organizations including Dell EMC, Goldman Sachs, Nomura, and Virgin Internet. He is also an advisory board member for StorageOS, a container-based storage solution. He is an active contributor to open source software and is the creator and maintainer of XML Dataset, a Python library featured on the awesome Python list for parsing XML data. Link to his profile on LinkedIn: jamesspurin