Infrastructure Automation with Ansible

Why this Lab ?

Immerse yourself in a hands-on lab designed to master Ansible, from basic commands on a single host to deploying advanced playbooks on complex infrastructures. Dive deep into practical exercises and real-world scenarios that demonstrate the power of automation. Learn to streamline IT management processes while ensuring robust and efficient deployment.

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Lab Objectives

• Gain a foundational understanding of Ansible and its role in infrastructure management, including the benefits of using Ansible for managing snowflake servers.
• Learn how to gather and use facts in Ansible to collect information about managed nodes for more informed automation tasks.
• Understand the architecture and design of Ansible, and how it operates to automate tasks.
• Develop skills to configure local infrastructure using SSH and Ad-Hoc Ansible commands, and understand the internal workings of Ansible.
• Gain proficiency in writing and executing Ansible playbooks using VSCODE and YAML, incorporating the use of variables and fact-gathering for dynamic and efficient automation.
• Develop troubleshooting skills to debug playbooks, handle errors and failures, and avoid common pitfalls in Ansible usage.
• Gain expertise in automating network management tasks, including opening ports, configuring firewalls, installing services, and much more using Ansible.
• Develop skills to implement file-based backup and disaster recovery solutions using Ansible.
• Gain knowledge on how to set up and manage the Ansible inventory file to organize and describe your servers.