Automation with Ansible : The basics

Introduction 

 Ansible is an open-source software provisioning, configuration management, and application-deployment tool to automate all your system work. this is one-day , hands-on workshop. You’ll get a comprehensive overview of Ansible and then dive into Ansible Roles and playbooks. 

 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 

 intermediate 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. 

 

 Date & Time 

 

 Date: Saturday 14 March 2020 

 Time: 9:30AM - 4:30PM 

 

 Instructors 

 

 Manhal Mohamed 

 Sara Alamin 

 

 Agenda 

 

 Introduction to Ansible 

 Installing and Configuration 

 Configuring Clients 

 ad-hoc commands 

 Ansible Playbook

 

 Format& Function 

 Handlers 

 Variables 

 Conditions 

 Loops 

 

 

 Ansible Templates 

 Ansible Roles 

 

 Registration 

 Registration link will be published here 

 Workshop materials 

 you can find this workshop materials at: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1OV4fWCRiLWAz4WQ-ohdT3msUXXY1EDPd