After a quick Ansible roadshow, students will be guided to reach the following goals:

Goals

• learn Ansible architecture
• describe delivery layout in ansible.cfg
• static and dynamic inventories (openstack / digitalocean example if internet connection available)
• store passwords in encrypted vaults
• run ansible using vaults secrets
• using bastion hosts and other ssh_opts
• writing basic playbooks, test driven deployment
• avoid typical yaml pitfalls
• using group variables and roles
• ansible galaxy as a role repository

Bonus Tracks

• testing roles with molecule (presentation only)
• writing ansible modules

Methodology

The training is interactive, jupyter notebooks and a Docker image will be provided. Students will be driven performing the exercises and sharing their results. A couple of volunteers will be prepared to support the students.

Prerequisites

The training is based on Docker images, so before the training, eveybody must setup:

• Docker 1.10 + for Linux x64 (on Linux, Windows, Mac)
  • Clone training sources
• Download the images (links will be available here)

Further instructions on github when the training will be completed. Feel free to contact me for any issue or question!