Automation Using Ansible on AWS (Aug 2023)

Master Automation Using Ansible on AWS: Hands-On Coding Exercises!

🌟 Course Overview: Dive into the world of cloud infrastructure automation with Ansible, the powerful open-source tool that simplifies IT tasks across your Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment. This comprehensive course is designed to help you master the skills needed to configure and deploy with Ansible, complete with hands-on coding exercises.

Why Choose This Course?

• Learn the Essentials: Get a solid understanding of Ansible's architecture, advantages, and prerequisites for installation.
• Hands-On Experience: Engage in practical exercises that will help you configure Ansible, manage inventories, and work with modules.
• Real-World Application: Learn to automate tasks such as deploying web applications, managing databases, and configuring user accounts.
• Dynamic Inventory Mastery: Understand how to implement dynamic inventories to manage complex environments effortlessly.
• Advanced Playbooks & Roles: Create sophisticated playbooks and roles for orchestrating multi-node deployments, including the installation of stack technologies like MEAN.
• Full Integration: Explore the integration of Terraform, Jenkins, and GitHub within AWS EC2 instances to automate your entire infrastructure lifecycle.

Course Highlights:

📑 Understanding Ansible Fundamentals

• Learn what Ansible is and how it fits into the IT automation landscape.
• Discover the components of Ansible and how they work together to automate your AWS environment.

🚀 Getting Started with Ansible

• Step-by-step guidance on installing and configuring Ansible.
• Gain a deep understanding of Ansible Inventory and its importance in managing hosts and groups.

🔧 Hands-On Coding Exercises

• Follow along with practical coding tasks that reinforce your learning and help you apply Ansible's capabilities in real-world scenarios.
• Learn to automate the management of MySQL databases, shell scripts, user accounts, and more using Ansible modules and ad-hoc commands.

📚 Diving Deep into Playbooks

• Write your first Ansible playbook and understand how to create complex ones with roles.
• Create a web server node and deploy a sample web application using Ansible.

🛠️ Advanced Topics & Case Studies

• Explore advanced concepts such as variables, loops, conditions, and exception handling in Ansible playbooks.
• Illustrate the integration of Terraform for infrastructure provisioning with Ansible for configuration management, all within an AWS EC2 instance.

What You Will Learn:

✅ Ansible Basics

• Understanding the architecture and benefits of using Ansible for automation.
• How to install and configure Ansible for your AWS environment.

✅ Inventory Management

• Mastering the use of Ansible Inventory, static and dynamic inventories.
• Editing host inventories to manage your AWS infrastructure effectively.

✅ Ansible Modules & Ad-hoc Commands

• Utilizing Ansible modules to manage databases, files, users, and more.
• Crafting ad-hoc commands for package management and system configuration tasks.

✅ Writing Playbooks

• Creating and executing playbooks to automate the deployment of applications and services.
• Understanding Ansible roles to streamline your automation processes.

✅ Integrating with Other Tools

• Setting up Terraform, Jenkins, and GitHub within AWS EC2 instances for a fully automated CI/CD pipeline.
• Deploying and configuring applications from code repositories in real-time.

Who Should Take This Course?

• IT professionals looking to implement automation using Ansible in their AWS environments.
• DevOps engineers seeking to enhance their skills in orchestrating and managing cloud infrastructure.
• Developers who want to integrate automation into their deployment processes for faster, more reliable releases.
• System administrators aiming to automate routine tasks and configuration management.

Join us for this exciting journey into the world of Ansible Automation on AWS! 🚀 Sign up now and transform your IT operations with the power of Ansible and cloud infrastructure automation. Let's make your AWS environment more efficient, scalable, and manageable than ever before!