Ansible Training Course
📅 Duration: 45 Days
📘 Module 1: Introduction to Ansible
- What is Ansible and why use it?
- Agentless architecture and YAML syntax
- Installing Ansible and setting up lab environments
- SSH connectivity and inventory basics
⚙️ Module 2: Configuration & Inventories
- Static vs dynamic inventories
- Grouping hosts and host variables
- Inventory plugins and patterns
- Using Ansible facts for automation
🧩 Module 3: Playbooks & Modules
- Writing your first playbook
- Playbook structure: tasks, handlers, roles
- Common modules: copy, file, yum, apt, service, command
- Advanced modules: block, async, delegate_to
📦 Module 4: Roles, Includes & Tags
- Creating reusable roles
- Role directory structure
- Includes and imports
- Using tags for selective execution
🔐 Module 5: Secrets & Security
- Ansible Vault: encrypting files and variables
- Best practices for secret management
- Role-based access control (RBAC)
🧪 Module 6: Testing & Troubleshooting
- Validating playbooks with ansible-lint and ansible-playbook –check
- Debugging with register, when, and assert
- Troubleshooting connectivity and module errors
🌐 Module 7: Ansible with DevOps Tools
- Docker and container orchestration
- Cloud integrations: AWS, Azure, GCP
- CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and GitHub Actions
🚀 Module 8: Advanced Automation Techniques
- Parallel execution and looping
- Conditional tasks and error handling
- Magic variables and Jinja2 templating
- Custom modules and plugins
🏢 Module 9: Enterprise Automation
- Automation Controller and Automation Hub
- Workflow orchestration and job templates
- Scaling Ansible in large environments
🎓 Module 10: Certification & Projects
- Real-world automation scenarios
- Resume and interview preparation