Introduction to ansible

Moved to https://gitlab.com/t-systems-devops-school/ansible-course

Ansible is a modern IT configuration management tool which makes your life easier by managing your servers for you. It is foundation for people who involved into infrastructure topics - devops engineers, SRE, developers, build engineers, configuration managers. The course allows to rapidly start using Ansible. The course start from very beginning and Ansible foundtaion, but also it covers a lot of different technical topics like development modules, plugins & best practices.

Goal

The course goal is to introduce Configuration Managament and Ansible.

Lessons ENG

• 01. Configuration management
• 02. The first playbook
• 03. Base features
• 04. Roles and modules
• 05. Best practices
• 06. Usecases

Homework

We The course consists of 6 lessons. Our goal is to provision a server and play the game 2048. Each homework goal is to get practical knoledge about related topics.

• 01. Configuration management
• 02. The first playbook
• 03. Base features
• 04. Roles and modules
• 05. Best practices
• 06. Usecases

Audience

• DevOps engineers.
• SRE.
• Developers.
• Build engineers.
• Configuration managers.
• Test automation engineers.
• Performance engineers.

Pre-requisites

For doing homework you should have:

• Laptop with enabled virtualization(VT-x/AMD-V).
• Installed software:
  • VirtualxBox(might be replaced via Hyper-V).
  • git client(i.e. sourcetreeapp)
  • vagrant

Also, it makes sens to configure your text editor i.e. how to configure vscode

Links

• Для нас главное — это желание учиться и развиваться в DevOps» — преподаватели и менторы о том, как учат в DevOps-школе
• How to test Ansible and don't go nuts
• Ansible: CoreOS to CentOS, 18 months long journey
• How to configure vscode for using Ansible
• Awesome IaC testing list
• t.me/pro_ansible
• t.me/ansible_dev