PRO course

Ansible basics

Name: Ansible basics
Author: Kirill Mokevnin

Description

Configuration management and orchestration systems are important tools for any modern software developer and system administrator. The goal of this course is to learn how to use Ansible, the popular configuration management tool.

Lessons

1

Ansible in Ad Hoc Mode

Learn how to use ansible command

theory

quiz

exercise
2

Inventory file

Understand what inventory file is and how to write one.

theory

exercise
3

Playbooks

Learn how to write simple playbooks.

theory

exercise
4

Tags

Learn how to use tags.

theory

exercise
5

Handlers

Learn how to use task notifications.

theory

exercise
6

Variables

Learn how to use dynamic generation and how to reduce duplicates.

theory

exercise
7

Variables in the inventory file

Learn how to create variables in the inventory file.

theory

exercise
8

Facts

Understand what facts are.

theory

exercise
9

Loops

Learn how to use 'with_items' to generate loops.

theory

exercise
10

Conditions

Learn how to use 'when' to define conditions.

theory

exercise
11

Filters

Learn how to filter data

theory

exercise
12

Registering results

Learn how 'register' option is used.

theory

exercise
13

Includes

Learn how to split tasks into multiple files.

theory

exercise

Author

Kirill Mokevnin

Co-founder and CTO of Hexlet. One of the organizers of Nastachku.ru conference. In the past — head of undev.ru Ulyanovsk, software developer at Qik (Skype). Creates engineering culture in companies and brings XP, DDD and DevOps. Mental programming evangelist.