Ansible for the Absolute Beginners

What is Ansible? Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy. Avoid writing scripts or custom code to deploy and update your applications— automate in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. For anyone in the IT automation or DevOps engineering fields, learning the basics of Ansible is important. What Are the Benefits to Learning Ansible Basics? - A free and open-source community project with a huge audience. - Battle-tested over many years as the preferred tool of IT wizards. - Easy to start and use from day one, without the need for any special coding skills. - Simple deployment workflow without any extra agents. - Includes some sophisticated features around modularity and reusability that come in handy as users become more proficient. - Extensive and comprehensive official documentation that is complemented by a plethora of online material produced by its community. Ansible Basics Course Details This course introduces a beginner to the basic fundamentals of Ansible with easy-to-do hands-on exercises that you can practice right in the browser. The course helps users learn Ansible’s basics, followed by an introduction to * Ansible Inventory: A list of managed nodes provided by one or more ‘inventory sources’. Your inventory can specify information specific to each node, like IP address. It is also used for assigning groups, that both allow for node selection in the Play and bulk variable assignment. * Ansible Playbooks: A playbook is composed of one or more ‘plays’ in an ordered list. The terms ‘playbook’ and ‘play’ are sports analogies. Each play executes part of the overall goal of the playbook, running one or more tasks. Each task is called an Ansible module. Playbooks are expressed in YAML format with a minimum of syntax. * Ansible Modules: The code or binaries that Ansible copies and executes on each managed node (when needed) to ac