Course Prerequisites

Target Audience for Configuration Management with Ansible

1. Koenig Solutions' Ansible course teaches efficient IT automation and configuration management for tech professionals.

   
   

2. Target Audience:

   
   
   • System Administrators
   • DevOps Engineers
   • IT Automation Engineers
   • Infrastructure Automation Professionals
   • Software Developers with an interest in deployment automation
   • Technical Project Managers overseeing IT environments
   • Security Professionals looking to automate security compliance
   • Cloud Engineers working with scalable infrastructures
   • Network Administrators interested in automating network configurations
   • Release Engineers coordinating environment configurations and deployment
   • Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) managing application stability and automation

Learning Objectives - What you will Learn in this Configuration Management with Ansible?

1. Introduction: This Configuration Management with Ansible course arms participants with the skills to automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and application deployment using Ansible.

2. Learning Objectives and Outcomes:

• Understand the fundamentals of Ansible, including its history and how it fits into the current state of IT automation.
• Gain proficiency in the Ansible framework and its approach to configuration management and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Learn the essentials of Ansible deployment, including installation, configuration, and managing inventory and architecture.
• Master executing ad-hoc commands and writing Ansible playbooks for task automation.
• Acquire the ability to define and use variables, facts, conditionals, loops, and handlers within Ansible playbooks.
• Develop skills in creating and managing reusable code through Ansible roles, including role creation and dependency management.
• Learn to secure sensitive data using Ansible Vault and manage secrets within Ansible playbooks.
• Explore Ansible Galaxy to find, share, and reuse community-developed roles and collections.
• Optimize performance and efficiency in Ansible playbooks through best practices and techniques such as forks, tags, and Jinja2 templating.
• Conduct playbook dry-runs to verify code before pushing changes and understand how to troubleshoot common issues and optimize playbook performance.