This blog post gives a walkthrough of the Step-By-Step Activity Guides of the Ansible for Beginners’ Training program that you must perform to learn this course. To know more about the Training, read our blog Ansible for Beginners | Overview | Architecture & Use Cases
You’ll learn more practically and clear your concepts through the Step-By-Step Activity Guides of our Ansible for Beginners’ Training Program.
The hands-on list is as follows:
- Create AWS Free Trial Account
- Connect and Create AWS EC2 Instance
- Installing Ansible in AWS VM
- Setup a Lab Environment for Ansible & Working with Inventory files in Ansible
- Ad hoc commands in Ansible
- Working with Ansible Playbooks, Modules & Privileged Access
- Using variables & Facts in Ansible Playbooks
- Working with Conditionals, and Task Control
- Loops, File management & Roles in Ansible
Activity Guides:
1. Create AWS Free Trial Account
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is providing a free trial account for 12 months to new subscribers to get hands-on experience with all the services that AWS provided. With the AWS Free Tier account, all the services are offered have limited usage on what we can use without being charged.
In this Lab, we will show how to create a free trial AWS Account. So that you can use it to perform labs without hassle.
To know how to create a free AWS account, check our Step by steps blog How To Create AWS Free Tier Account
2. Connect and Create AWS EC2 Instance
The EC2 is a computing service that provides scalable computing capacity and eliminates the investment in hardware up-front, so the applications can be developed and deployed faster. Virtual machines on AWS EC2, are called instances.
In this Lab, you’ll learn how to create an AWS EC2 Linux Instance from scratch and how to connect to it using multiple methods available.
3. Installing Ansible in AWS VM
AWS is in demand with Ansible in the Industry, and for this reason, we are working on AWS Cloud for configuring Ansible.
In this Lab, you will learn how to install Ansible on AWS EC2 Linux Instance (VM) and check the Ansible version. You can create and configure the Ansible locally on your own Linux VM or your Linux Machine.
4. Setting up a Lab Environment & Inventory for Ansible
Ansible runs on many systems in your infrastructure simultaneously. It does it by picking portions of Ansible’s inventory file systems, which defaults to being stored in the location /etc/ansible/hosts. You can define a different inventory file using the -i <path>option on the command line.
In this activity guide, we will set up an Ansible controller that communicates with 2 target machines.
We will also configure inventory files and run commands to test if our configuration is working.
5. Ad hoc commands in Ansible
Ansible ad hoc commands are one-liners composed to perform a particular task, like performing a quick task over various machines.
In this Lab, we will learn how to use Ad-hoc commands in Ansible Playbook.
6. Working with Ansible Playbooks, Modules & Privileged Access
Playbooks register and perform Ansible’s configuration, deployment, and orchestration functions. They can specify a policy you want your remote systems to implement or a set of actions in a standard IT process.
Modules are script-like programs written to specify the desired state of the system. A code editor is used to write Modules. Modules are written by the developer and executed via SSH. Modules are part of a more extensive program called Playbook. Ansible module is a standalone script that is used inside an Ansible Playbook.
Here, you’ll learn how to create an Ansible Playbook from Scratch and test the same playbook.
7. Using variables & Facts in Ansible Playbook
Ansible uses variables to maintain differences between systems, and then by using Ansible, you can perform tasks and playbooks on various systems with a single command.
You can build variables with standard YAML syntax to represent the variations among those multiple systems, including lists and dictionaries.
Variables are created by defining them in the playbook or by passing them in the command line.
In this Lab, you’ll learn how to use Variables in Ansible Playbook and gather facts in Ansible Playbook.
8. Working with Conditionals, and Task Control
Conditional control enables Ansible to follow an alternative path, skip a task, or select a particular file to import based on specific requirements. As a result, you can use conditions to control the task executions.
In this Lab, you will learn how to Create Playbook to Install-Package based on Conditions.
9. Loops, File management & Roles in Ansible
In Ansible Playbook loop is used to repeat any task of a part of code multiple times. It includes installing multiple packages using apt or yum module.
Ansible Role is the fundamental mechanism for breaking down a playbook into various files. As a result, it simplifies writing complex playbooks, and it makes them easier to reuse.
Ansible file module is used to creating and removing the file or various files in the remote server. You can also create and remove the directories, modify the data’s permissions, and set permissions on the file.
In this Lab, you will learn how to add a loop in Ansible Playbook and how to use role, and also, you’ll learn how to use different file management modules in Ansible.
Related/References
- Ansible for Beginners | Overview | Architecture & Use Cases
- Ansible Tutorial | Ansible Architecture | Ansible tower | Ansible Ad Hoc commands
- [AZ-400] Microsoft Azure DevOps Certification Exam: Everything You Need To Know
- [AZ-400] Microsoft Azure DevOps Training: Step By Step Activity Guides/Hands-On Lab Exercise
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