Ansible in Practice: Advanced Server and Application Automation (ANSBL2)

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This two-day advanced follow-up course builds on basic Ansible experience and focuses on roles, collections, modules and inventory. You’ll learn to create reusable code, collaborate across teams, scale automation and build custom components for your infrastructure.

The course emphasizes real scenarios, best practices and practical troubleshooting. Hands-on labs focus on application deployments, scalable architectures and testable workflows to help administrators and DevOps engineers apply Ansible reliably in complex production environments.

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The course:

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  • Review of core concepts
    1. Summary of key knowledge from the Ansible I course
  • Installing Ansible
    1. Deploying Ansible in enterprise environments
    2. Team workflows, code sharing and best practices
  • Inventory
    1. Designing inventory: static vs. dynamic approaches
    2. Developing custom inventory scripts
    3. Combining multiple inventory sources
  • Roles & Collections
    1. Organizing code with collections and roles
    2. Using multiple versions of roles and collections on one controller
    3. Developing custom collections and roles
    4. Sharing and installing collections/roles (Ansible Galaxy, GitHub, GitLab)
  • Modules
    1. Troubleshooting module-related issues
    2. Developing custom modules for specific tasks
  • Playbooks and extended syntax
    1. Using multiple plays in one playbook
    2. Sharing data and variables across host groups
    3. Complex loops and handling nested data structures
    4. Tags for selective task execution
  • Templates
    1. Creating complex Jinja2 templates
    2. Dynamic template generation
  • Ansible on Ansible
    1. Generating Ansible code (or other tools) using Ansible
  • Plugins
    1. Working with external data sources (lookups) and using them
  • Scaling and distribution
    1. Scaling Ansible in production environments
    2. Distributing Ansible code and ensuring version compatibility
  • Practical examples and troubleshooting
    1. Deploying applications with Ansible
    2. Working on a personal Ansible project of choice
  • Questions, discussion and wrap-up
Assumed knowledge:
Basic experience with Ansible.
Recommended previous course:
Ansible in Practice: Server and Application Automation (ANSBL)
Schedule:
2 days (9:00 AM - 5:00 PM )
Course price:
512.00 € ( 619.52 € incl. 21% VAT)
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