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Formation Ansible: from discovery to expertise | Cours en ligne et Certification

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Martin LEKPA

Martin LEKPA

Tech Lead et formateur Observabilité

Chapters | Training

0. Course overview




Ansible: from discovery to expertise

1. Introduction




System administration

Automation: IaC vs CaC

Ansible

Installation

Connection to servers

Setting up the test environment

Installation

2. Inventory


3. Ad-Hoc commands


4. Roles


5. How to create dynamic files with Ansible? -> jinja2 templates


6. How to manage security in Ansible


7. Manage your infrastructure with Ansible: Infrastructure as code


8. How to manage my configuration with a graphical interface (WebUI)?


9. Going further


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Cas concrets & Applications

Application deployment

Automate the deployment of a web application and its database on a set of servers.

Configuration management

Ensure that all servers in a fleet have an identical configuration (package installation, service configuration, user management).

Cloud provisioning

Create and configure instances on cloud providers like AWS, Azure or GCP using dedicated Ansible modules.

Questions Fréquentes (FAQ)

It is an open-source automation tool for configuration management, application deployment, and orchestration of IT tasks.
No, Ansible is 'agentless'. It communicates with remote servers via SSH (for Linux/Unix) or WinRM (for Windows).
It is a YAML formatted file that describes a set of ordered tasks to be executed on one or more target servers (the inventory).