Automation Tool: Ansible

Hands-on how to use automation in your network. Three day course 

 Objectives 

 By the end of the workshop, attendees will know how to use automation with Ansible to ease the burden of consistent configuration of servers and network devices and how to choose what/when to automate. 

 Workshop Level 

 Advance Level 

 Prerequisites 

 

 Participants should be familiar with Unix-style operating systems. The course is taught on Linux (Ubuntu or CentOS) but the environment will be familiar to people with a systems administration background on FreeBSD or Solaris. 

 Knowledge of Linux/UNIX command line 

 Good understanding of network basics (IP networking) 

 All participants will need to bring a laptop with WiFi access. 

 

 Participants 

 System administrators,Network engineers and Network technicians who are running network devices like servers, routers and switches in their organization. 

 Date & Time 

 

 Date: Sunday 30 Sep - Tuesday 2 Oct 2018 

 Time: 8:30AM - 4:00PM 

 

 Instructors 

 Sander Steffann 

 Agenda 

 

 Benefits of automation 

 What to automate? 

 What not (yet) to automate? 

 Available automation tools (Ansible, Puppet, Salt etc) 

 What is Ansible? 

 Installing Ansible 

 How Ansible Works and its Key Components 

 Playbook Basics 

 Organising your roles 

 Combining Ansible with other tools (bgpq3 etc) 

 Sharing playbooks and revision management (git etc)