Mastering Ansible Automation – Step by Step

Mastering Ansible Step by Step

Course Contents

1 Introducing Ansible

• Overview of Ansible Architecture
• Ansible Components
• Overview of Ansible Deployments
• Describing Ansible Inventory
• Summary

2 Deploying Ansible

• Installing Ansible
• Guided Exercise: Installing Ansible
• Managing Ansible Configuration Files
• Guided Exercise: Managing Ansible Configuration Files
• Running Ad Hoc Commands
• Guided Exercise: Running Ad Hoc Commands
• Managing Dynamic Inventory
• Guided Exercise: Managing Dynamic Inventory
• Lab: Deploying Ansible
• Summary

3 Ansible Installation on Red Hat Linux 8

• Overview of Ansible Installation
• Online Ansible Installation
• User’s Account Setup for Passwordless Authentication
• Offline Ansible Installation ( When there is no internet available on Control Node )

4 Implementing Playbooks

• Writing YAML Files
• Guided Exercise: Writing YAML Files
• Implementing Modules
• Guided Exercise: Implementing Modules
• Implementing Ansible Playbooks
• Guided Exercise: Implementing Ansible Playbooks
• Lab: Implementing Playbooks
• Summary

5 Managing Variables and Inclusions

• Managing Variables
• Guided Exercise: Managing Variables
• Managing Facts
• Guided Exercise: Managing Facts
• Managing Inclusions
• Guided Exercise: Managing Inclusions
• Lab: Managing Variables and Inclusions

6 Implementing Task Control

• Constructing Flow Control
• Guided Exercise: Constructing Flow Control
• Implementing Handlers
• Guided Exercise: Implementing Handlers
• Implementing Tags
• Guided Exercise: Implementing Tags
• Handling Errors
• Guided Exercise: Handling Errors
• Lab: Implementing Task Control
• Summary

7. Ansible Roles

• About Ansible Roles
• How do we create Ansible Roles
• Lab Session to create roles

8. Industrial project to Automate Patching on Multiple Linux Server using Ansible Playbook

• Overview about Linux Patching
• Automate Linux Patching using Ansible
• Verify application/Database processes are running or not
• Decision point to start patching
• Upgrade all the packages on the server
• Check if reboot required after the kernel update
• Install the specific kernel version using Ansible Playbook.
• Various Labs to understand the Ansible Playbook for patching

9. Industrial project for Stop/Start Control M appl/db

• Overview of project
• Designing of Ansible playbooks
• Lab Sessions

10.  Create Automation tool using Ansible & Shell

• Overview of Automation Tool
• Concept of Automation Tool
• Communication between Ansible Server with managed hosts
• Front look of Automation Tool
• What we are achieving from this Automation tool.
• Pre-validation Configuration (To capture pre-change configuration details)
• User Administration

1. User Creation
2. User Removal
3. Group Add
4. Password Reset

• Run Ad Hoc Command
• Health Check Statistics

1. Memory Utilization
2. CPU Utilization
3. Overall I/O Activities
4. Reports run queue and load average
5. Top Memory Consuming processes
6. Top CPU Consuming Processes
7. Shared Memory

• Design of Automation Tool
• Design Front Look using case statement
• Practice Lab Session on case Statement -1
• Practice Lab Session on case Statement -2
• Color Fonts in desinging the tool
• Headline & Selecting the target servers
• Lab sessions
• Shell Scripting

1. If..else..elif statement
2. Loops
3. Sed – Stream Editot
4. Awk

• The case esac statement
• Last lecture