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Ansible: From Basics to Guru, 2nd Edition (Video Course)

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Ansible: From Basics to Guru, 2nd Edition (Video Course)

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Description

  • Copyright 2025
  • Edition: 1st
  • Online Video
  • ISBN-10: 0-13-546080-8
  • ISBN-13: 978-0-13-546080-1

Learn Ansible from the ground up and manage Linux, Windows, containers, network devices, and the cloud.

Overview

13 hours of video training

This master class includes lessons from the following courses:

  • Ansible: From Basics to Guru
  • Ansible Core Concepts and Advanced Features

Ansible: From Basics to Guru teaches Ansible from the ground up, so whether youre a novice or an experienced developer, administrator or user, this course will help you get the most out of your Ansible solutions and playbooks and manage your heterogeneous environment. This course consists of all the major and popular topics and concepts that are relevant to Ansible. It begins with the basics of Ansible and how to get started. It then explores how to develop flexible playbooks before jumping into managed infrastructure, ad-hoc commands, Ansible AWX, conditionals, plugins, and managing containers, among various other important topics.

Ansible Core Concepts and Advanced Features has been built to help developers, administrators, and users get up to speed quickly on Ansibles concepts and functionality. Learn what Ansible is and how to modify and organize your Ansible setup, how it is organized, and explore playbooks, modules, and content collections, and how to use them with variables and conditionals. You will also explore how to manage files with Jinja2 templates, and Ansible roles to include standardized components in Ansible. It also looks at more advanced topics, including filters and plugins, which let you easily extend Ansible functionality.

Related learning

Skill Level:

Beginner to intermediate

Course requirement:

  • A minimum of three virtual machines, running any Linux distribution (Red Hat family recommended)
  • Optionally, the following can be added:
  • One virtual machine running Windows
  • Administrator access to AWS
  • Administrator access to Azure
  • A Cisco network device
  • A virtual machine running VMware ESXi

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Video Lessons are available for download for offline viewing within the streaming format. Look for the green arrow in each lesson.

Sample Content

Table of Contents

Module 1: Getting Started

Lesson 1: What is Ansible

Lesson 2: Getting Started

Lesson 3: Using Ansible in Large Environments

Lesson 4: Using Ad-Hoc Commands

Lesson 5: Using Ansible Playbooks

Lesson 6: Using Ansible Tower

Module 2: Developing Flexible Playbooks

Lesson 7: Working with Variables

Lesson 8: Using Conditionals

Lesson 9: Managing Files

Lesson 10: Using Roles

Module 3: Advanced Ansible Management Options

Lesson 11: Ansible Best Practices and Optimization

Lesson 12: Using Filters

Lesson 13: Using Plugins

Lesson 14: Advanced Ansible Tower Usage

Module 4: Managing Environment with Ansible

Lesson 15: Managing Windows with Ansible

Lesson 16: Managing Azure with Ansible

Lesson 17: Managing Containers

Lesson 18: Managing AWS with Ansible

Lesson 19: Managing Network Devices with Ansible

Lesson 20: Managing Virtual Machines with Ansible

Lesson 21: Managing Kubernetes with Ansible

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