Mastering Ansible
Why take this course?
🌟 Mastering Ansible: A Complete Guide to Configuration Management and Orchestration with Ansible 🌟
Course Instructor: Chris Lunsford
Your Journey to Ansible Mastery Begins Here!
Embark on a comprehensive learning adventure with our online course, "Mastering Ansible," designed to elevate your skills in configuration management and orchestration. This isn't just another dry tutorial—it's a practical, hands-on experience that takes you from novice to proficient as you build and refine a realistic application stack.
Course Overview:
A Step-by-Step Guide to Ansible:
- Real-World Application: Learn by doing—configure, deploy, and maintain a sample application environment from the ground up.
- Beyond the Manual: We go beyond mere documentation pages, organizing topics to build your understanding alongside the complexity of our growing application.
Course Structure:
The course is meticulously structured into six clear and approachable sections:
- Installation & Foundations: Get started with Ansible basics and essential tools.
- Building the Application: Start layering your sample application environment, one concept at a time.
- Advanced Configuration: Dive deeper into advanced configuration and best practices.
- Modularity & Encapsulation: Refactor your setup for better maintainability and scalability.
- Optimization Techniques: Learn to streamline and improve the efficiency of your playbooks.
- Troubleshooting & Testing: Master the art of diagnosing issues and ensuring your deployment's robustness.
What You Will Learn:
For each lecture, you'll explore new Ansible concepts and see them applied in real-time through our demo environment. The course is rich with resources, including:
- Lecture Notes: Detailed explanations, accompanied by links to official documentation for a deeper understanding.
- Codebase Snapshots: Access to the exact code state at the end of each lecture for reference and learning.
- Practical Execution: Watch as each concept is executed in a live environment, providing clear outputs and expectations.
Key Highlights:
- Version Specific: Tailored content based on Ansible version 1.9.3.
- Application Environment: A 3-tiered web application with NGINX, Apache2, Python, and MySQL on Ubuntu Linux servers.
- Focused Scope: The course is centered around Linux environments; Windows administration is not covered.
- Target Audience: This course is ideal for anyone new to Ansible or engineers interested in configuration management, orchestration, infrastructure-as-code, and devops methodologies.
Why Choose This Course?
Because it's not just about learning Ansible—it's about understanding how to apply its principles effectively in real-world scenarios. By the end of this course, you'll have a solid grasp of Ansible's capabilities and how to use them to manage your infrastructure efficiently and effectively.
🎓 Join us on this journey and transform the way you approach configuration management and orchestration with Ansible! 🎓
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Comidoc Review
Our Verdict
This Ansible course offers valuable insights into configuration management and orchestration but shows its age with outdated content and rapidly evolving syntax. While recommended for those familiar with Linux systems administration concepts, beginners may struggle with the fast-paced presentation and lack of thorough explanations. Patchy maintenance and missing resources create a bumpy ride and limit learning opportunities.
What We Liked
- Comprehensive introduction to Ansible for learners familiar with Linux systems administration concepts
- Many foundational topics covered, including configuration management, best practices with templates, and inventory management
- Real-world example stack and scenarios that make it easy to follow along
- Excellent tutorial on inventory, patterns, host selection, Ansible command, and ansible.cfg usage
Potential Drawbacks
- Content is somewhat obsolete, referring to an old Ansible version with syntax details that have changed over time
- Lacks diagrams and context, with the presenter talking too fast and mispronouncing some terms
- Course material is very outdated, with a poor user experience due to broken links and lack of teaching resources
- Assumptions made about the audience and basics glossed over, making it hard for beginners to follow