Course: Ansible Advanced Course

Notes for the Ansible Advanced Course course: 31 lessons across 8 sections.

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Introduction

• Course Introduction
• Course Pre Requisites

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Core Components

• Core Components Introduction
• Playbook run options
• Lab Introduction Demo
• Facts
• Configuration files

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Install and Configure

• Install required packages create static host inventory file create config file
• Create and distribute SSH keys to managed nodes
• Validate a working configuration using ad hoc Ansible commands
• Create simple shell scripts that run ad hoc Ansible commands
• Privilege Escalation
• Frequently Asked Questions

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Ansible Modules

• Additional Modules
• Project Introduction
• Project Demo

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Variables and Jinja2

• Variable Precedence
• Variable Scope
• Use variables to retrieve the results of running commands
• Magic Variables
• Jinja2 Basics
• Jinja2 in Ansible
• Create and use templates to create customized configuration files

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Include and Roles

• Ansible File Separation
• Ansible Roles

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Other Topics

• Ansible Vault
• Dynamic Inventory

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Playbook Flow

• Use conditionals to control play execution
• Blocks
• Configure error handling
• Manage parallelism