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What's in this course?This Automation with Ansible course, designed for absolute beginners, introduces the basic fundamental blocks needed to get started with Ansible. The course begins with an introduction to Ansible and Ansible's key terminologies followed by real time Ansible setup, In-depth Architecture, Ansible Modules. This course also covers some of the core critical concepts such as Playbooks, Roles, Collections, important Ansible configuration files, Facts, Ansible Vault, Jinja Templates, Ansible for Windows, Troubleshooting scenarios and much more. Don't worry if you are new to Ansible, we are going to get started with the absolute basics. Each lecture in this course is accompanied by real hands-on demos.This course also covers Ansible AWX an upstream project of Red hat Automation Platform (previously known as Ansible tower).What is Ansible?In today's complex IT landscape, managing numerous servers and ensuring consistent configurations across them can be a daunting task. This is where Ansible steps in, offering a powerful open-source platform to simplify and automate infrastructure management including the provisioning, patching, configuration, and management of operating systems and application components across enterprise data centers, cloud environments or Virtual infrastructures like VMware.Course Structure:LecturesDemosQuizzesAssignmentsCourse Contents:Introduction to AnsibleUnderstanding Ansible Framework and TerminologiesSetting up Ansible EnvironmentAnsible Indepth ArchitectureInventory types and ManagementModules - The Basic Building BlocksAdhoc TasksAnsible Code Creation Process (Playbooks)Ansible for automating Windows tasksVariables, Magic Variables and FactsConditionals and LoopsHandlers SystemAnsible Roles and Collections for Bigger EnvironmentsAnsible Galaxy for pre-built Roles and CollectionsAnsible VaultTroubleshooting TipsAnsible AWS - a web based UIAll sections in this course are demonstrated Live. The intention for enrolled users is to setup their own Ansible environment, perform the exercises and learn by doing!

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