Ansible Automation Technical Workshop - Free

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DATE: February 25th

TIME: 9am – 5am

LOCATION: Spencer Hotel, Dublin City, Excise Walk, IFSC, Dublin 1

PRICE: free

*Space in this workshop is limited and a waiting list will be created when the Workshop reaches a full capacity.

This free one day workshop is intended for people who want to learn the basics of Ansible Automation including Ansible Tower, understand how they work and how they can be used to automate basic tasks. In addition, the instructor will provide information on differentiation between the upstream project and the product offering from Red Hat.

This workshop teaches the basic bits you need to start using Ansible Automation on your own. In the second half we will focus on Ansible Tower and show where it fits in - and when and why you absolutely need it when you automate more and more.

Ansible

  • What is Ansible and The Ansible Way

  • Installing Ansible

  • How Ansible Works and its Key Components

  • Ad-Hoc Commands

  • Writing Playbook and Roles 

Red Hat Ansible Tower

  • What is Ansible Tower

  • How Ansible Tower Works

  • Installing Ansible Tower

  • How to Set Up and Run Schedules/Jobs

  • Key Ansible Tower Features

Workshop Requirements

  • Attendees should have working knowledge of using SSH and command line shell (BASH) as well as a conceptual understanding of linux system admin, DevOps, and distributed application architecture.

  • Attendees must come with a laptop with admin rights and the ability to SSH to a lab environment hosted in a public cloud.

Who Should Attend?

Beginner - Intermediate users of Ansible 

DevOps engineers, operations engineers, systems engineers, release engineers, system administrators, developers, operations staff, network engineers, security professionals and anyone interested in IT automation.

What’s Covered :

  • Introduction to Ansible

  • Running Ad-hoc Commands

  • Writing Your First Playbook

  • Using Variables

  • Conditionals, Handlers and Loops

  • Building Templates

  • Roles

  • Introduction to Tower

  • Inventories

  • Credentials

  • Ad-Hoc commands

  • Projects

  • Job Templates

  • Using the Survey Feature

  • Role Based Access Control

  • Workflows

*Space in this workshop is limited and a waiting list will be created when the Workshop reaches a full capacity.

Cancellations

We reserve the right to postpone or cancel this workshop if there is insufficient registrations. In this case, we will not be responsible for any other costs incurred.