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We're here to help you find itThe "CI/CD with Ansible and Terraform" course is designed to provide learners with a comprehensive understanding of continuous integration and continuous delivery/deployment (CI/CD) practices using Ansible and Terraform, two powerful tools in the DevOps toolkit. Starting with an introduction to Git for version control, the course progresses through the essentials of Ansible for Configuration Management and application deployment. It covers Ansible's architecture, Modules, Playbooks, Variables, and its integration with AWX Tower for managing complex workflows.
The course then dives into Terraform, instructing on how to build, change, and version infrastructure efficiently. It explores the nuances of setting up and managing Cloud infrastructure, working with configurations, and using Terraform's provisioners. The latter part of the course introduces Jenkins, a key CI/CD automation server, and integrates it with Ansible and Terraform to achieve end-to-end automation.
By mastering CI/CD with Ansible and CI/CD with Terraform, learners can streamline software development processes, ensure consistent environments, and greatly reduce manual efforts, leading to more reliable and rapid releases. This course is ideal for those looking to become adept at using these tools to enhance their DevOps capabilities.
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To ensure the best learning experience and success in the CI/CD with Ansible and Terraform course, participants should have the following minimum prerequisites:
Please note that while prior experience in these areas will be helpful, the course is designed to guide you through the basics before delving into more advanced concepts. Our instructors are committed to helping all students, regardless of their starting skill level, to grasp the course material effectively.
This course offers comprehensive training on CI/CD pipelines using Ansible and Terraform, aimed at IT professionals seeking automation and infrastructure as code expertise.
Target job roles and audience for the CI/CD with Ansible and Terraform course:
This course equips students with the skills to implement CI/CD pipelines using Ansible for Configuration Management and Terraform for infrastructure as code, ensuring efficient, automated, and reproducible deployments.
These outcomes ensure that students will be able to effectively manage infrastructure and automate deployment processes in a modern cloud-based environment.
AWX Tower, also known simply as Ansible Tower, is a web-based interface for managing automation tasks with Ansible. It enhances Ansible's tooling capabilities by providing a more user-friendly setup, job scheduling, integration with CI/CD pipelines, and metrics tracking. It is especially useful for teams practicing DevOps because it efficiently handles complex workflows, enabling CI/CD with Ansible. Automation processes set up through AWX can be integrated into various environments, supporting continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) activities, which are crucial for rapid and reliable application development and operation endeavors.
Terraform is an open-source tool used for building, changing, and versioning infrastructure safely and efficiently. It allows users to define and provision data center infrastructure using a high-level configuration language. Terraform can manage both existing service providers and custom in-house solutions. Key features include infrastructure as code, execution plans, resource graphing, change automation, and more. It also integrates with CI/CD processes, enhancing tools like Ansible for configuration management, making it seamless to implement CI/CD with Terraform or Ansible CI/CD pipelines, ensuring consistent and reliable infrastructure deployment and scaling.
Git is a version control system that allows multiple people to work on digital projects together. It efficiently tracks changes, stores code updates, and helps in merging edits from various contributors. It's widely used in software development to manage code evolution and collaboration. Git enables teams to rollback to previous versions if needed and review history to understand development progress. Each team member works on their own copy of the repository, commits changes, and integrates them back to the main project safely, facilitating a smoother workflow and minimizing conflicts between concurrent updates.
Variables in programming are used to store information that can be referenced and manipulated in a computer program. They provide a way of labeling data with a descriptive name, so our programs can be understood more clearly by the reader and ourselves. It is like using sticky notes to remember temporary information during the execution of a program. Variables can vary in type, such as numbers, text, or more complex types, and their value can change as the program runs, allowing for dynamic and flexible code.
Ansible is an open-source automation tool that helps in software provisioning, configuration management, and application deployment. It streamlines the process of CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment), enabling seamless coordination between development, testing, and production environments. This makes Ansible an efficient choice for CI/CD automation. By using simple, human-readable YAML syntax, Ansible automates repetitive tasks like software deployment or system updates, ensuring consistency and reliability in software delivery. Ansible integrates well with other CI/CD tools, such as Terraform, enhancing its capabilities in managing infrastructure alongside software deployment processes.
Configuration management is a process that ensures all software and hardware assets in an IT environment are managed properly and consistently. It tracks and controls changes to an environment’s configuration to maintain system integrity and reliability. Tools like Ansible and Terraform help automate this process. Using Ansible CI/CD or Terraform CI/CD, professionals can implement continuous integration and continuous delivery to streamline updates and deployments, ensuring that the system operates smoothly and efficiently, reducing errors and improving uptime. Configuration management, therefore, plays a crucial role in maintaining operational stability and preventing configuration drift.
Technical Topic: Modules
Modules refer to self-contained packages of code and other resources utilized to break down applications into smaller, manageable pieces. They help in organizing and separating functionality, making maintenance easier and development more efficient. Modules also support code reusability, allowing developers to use the same code across different parts of a project or in different projects without duplication. In programming, modules can include functions, classes, or libraries, packaged together based on their purpose or functionality. They're integral in achieving a structured, maintainable codebase. This approach aligns with principles of modular programming, improving scalability and collaboration among developers.
Cloud infrastructure refers to the virtual technology and resources that allow computing over the internet. This includes servers, storage, networks, and software that can be rapidly deployed and scaled, providing flexibility and efficiency. Tools like Terraform and Ansible are used for "CI/CD" processes, which automate the deployment of applications and infrastructures. Terraform CI/CD and Ansible CI/CD streamline updates and management, ensuring that the infrastructure evolves safely and consistently with minimal human error. These practices enhance operational reliability in cloud environments.
Terraform's provisioners are special tools within Terraform that allow users to execute scripts on a local machine or on a remote machine as part of the configuration or management process. They are typically used for initial setup tasks like installing software or configuring settings after a resource has been created. Provisioners support handling various operations which might not be directly supported by Terraform resources. However, they are generally recommended as a last resort because they can lead to unpredictable Terraform configurations if not managed carefully. Provisioners are especially useful in complex environments where dynamic or conditional setup is required.
Jenkins is an automation server used primarily for Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) of software projects. It facilitates the automation of building, testing, and deploying code, helping software development teams increase efficiency, detect errors quickly, and improve quality of code. Jenkins supports various plugins for extending its use, enabling integration with tools like Ansible and Terraform for managing infrastructure as code and automation, thus streamlining the CI/CD process. This integration enables teams to deploy applications smoothly and consistently across different environments, ensuring that infrastructure changes can be version-controlled and repeatable.
Ansible's architecture is designed to be simple yet powerful. It operates on a master-less model where the primary machine manages nodes over SSH without needing agent installation on nodes. The architecture comprises Playbooks, written in YAML, defining the automation jobs, and the Inventory file, which lists the nodes or hosts. An important aspect of Ansible is its use of modules, which execute directly on remote hosts. Ansible can integrate smoothly with CI/CD processes, making it an ideal tool for automating tasks in environments using CI/CD with Ansible, Terraform CI/CD, and similar workflows.
Playbooks are a component of Ansible, a tool used to automate tasks across multiple systems. They describe the tasks you want automated, written in a simple language (YAML) that specifies what needs to happen. Playbooks make it easy to set up and configure environments consistently, whether you're deploying applications or managing systems, aligning well with CI/CD processes. CI/CD with Ansible integrates these playbooks to automate the deployment pipeline, making updates and scaling operations more efficient by continuously integrating (CI) and deploying (CD) applications without manual intervention.
This course offers comprehensive training on CI/CD pipelines using Ansible and Terraform, aimed at IT professionals seeking automation and infrastructure as code expertise.
Target job roles and audience for the CI/CD with Ansible and Terraform course:
This course equips students with the skills to implement CI/CD pipelines using Ansible for Configuration Management and Terraform for infrastructure as code, ensuring efficient, automated, and reproducible deployments.
These outcomes ensure that students will be able to effectively manage infrastructure and automate deployment processes in a modern cloud-based environment.
