Ansible — the fundamentals of IT automation

• Understand the agentless Ansible architecture and install it.
• Write efficient, readable and maintainable playbooks.
• Structure static and dynamic inventories and their variables.
• Master variables, facts, templates and secret management.
• Automate Linux server hardening and compliance checking.
• Organize projects into roles and deploy an application with rollback.

• Systems administrators and infrastructure engineers.
• DevOps engineers and developers.
• Operations teams looking to industrialize their tasks.

• Linux basics and hands-on command-line practice.
• SSH and YAML syntax basics.

Day 1 — Concepts and first steps

• Agentless architecture, use cases and installation
• Configuration, privilege escalation and ad hoc commands
• Inventories: structure, host and group variables, dynamic inventory

Day 2 — Playbooks and variables

• Playbooks: tasks, handlers, conditionals, loops and error handling
• Variables, custom facts and Jinja2 templates
• Secret encryption and multi-credential management

Day 3 — Roles, security and deployment

• Roles, collections, tags and static analysis
• Automated hardening of a Linux server
• Application deployment, rolling update and rollback