Ansible basics

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.