Automation with Ansible - Hands-on DevOps

This course features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as you progress through the course. This course teaches you to automate IT infrastructure management using Ansible. You’ll start by learning Ansible concepts and installation, then move on to managing inventories, creating playbooks, and automating tasks. Real-world examples will show how Ansible scales infrastructure, from setting up apps to automating updates. Explore topics like roles, collections, and AWX to structure and manage workflows. Learn to securely handle sensitive data with Ansible Vault. Using conditionals, loops, and handlers, you’ll refine automation tasks for complex environments. Troubleshooting techniques will also be covered to optimize automation. Ideal for DevOps engineers, system administrators, and IT professionals, this course is Intermediate level and includes practical exercises. By the end of the course, you will be able to automate infrastructure, create scalable playbooks, manage sensitive data securely with Ansible Vault, and use Ansible AWX for automation management.