September 2024
Beginner
1h 25m
English
on-demand course
Getting Started with Ansible: Learn the Basics of IT Automation in 2 hours
with Bas Meijer
Closed Captioning available in German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil), Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional)
Overview
Ansible enables developers and system administrators to codify their knowledge, to capture IT automation processes as code, storing changes systematically. This process, also known as "configuration management," makes your work predictably reliable by allowing machines to execute the code, as a remote control for the rest of the IT infrastructure. Ansible can send commands and configuration to manage all IT in your company from one central point.
The simplicity and power of Ansible can help reduce the complexity in managing IT infrastructure. Ansible was designed to be so simple that co-workers can comprehend the code quickly, enhancing productivity, scalability and cooperation. This course will jumpstart your skills in using this technology. It provides examples and just enough background to grasp the power of this tool and start creating your own automation.
What you’ll learn and how to apply it
- Provide developers and system administrators with a solid foundation in using Ansible for automation and configuration management
- Give participants practical knowledge and hands-on experience to effectively leverage Ansible in real-world scenarios
- Teach learners how to select and install additional Ansible content from vendors and the community that caters to various needs
This course is for you because
- You're a developer interested in an overview of the lifecycle of the Ansible software.
- You're a developer who writes software for Linux and want to learn how to use Ansible to manage their environments.
- You're a junior sys admins that might want to understand automation tooling for advancement.
- You're a DevOps engineer tasked with automating as much as possible.
- You're a software architect who needs to know more about automating infrastructure.
- You're an IT professional adding to your tool knowledge.
Prerequisites
- Beginner knowledge of Linux commands
- Ability to edit text files and create directories
- Access to a Linux machine
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