CURRICULUM

Module 1- Ansible Big Picture  ( Theory)

• What and why  of Ansible
• Ansible use cases and terminologies
  1. Controller server
  2. Nodes
  3. Playbook
  4. Ansible tower

Module 2- Ansible  management server deployment ( Hands-on Lab by students)

• Ansible–  Deploy a centos7 server
• Ssh to centos7 server
• Install and configure Ansible
• Create passwordless authentication keys
• Define nodes to be managed by ansible control server

Module 3- Ansible  Node server deployment ( Hands-on Lab by students)

• Deploy a RHEL server + 1 ubuntu 16.04 server
• Ssh to centos7 server
• Create passwordless authentication keys

Module 4 – Ansible  HTTPD Playbook for RHEL  node( Hands-on Lab by students)

• Create a httpd playbook directory
• Write .yml file
• write httpd package install code for RHEL  server
• write httpd service restart code
• write template resource type to push index.html and log.png to node
• write user and group creation code
• Apply the playbook on centos node and validate if a website is up

Module 5  – Ansible  Apache2 Playbook for ubuntu node( Hands-on Lab by students)

• Create an apache2 playbook directory
• Write .yml file
• write apache2 package install code for ubuntu server
• write apache2 service restart code
• write template resource type to push index.html and log.png to node
• write user and group creation code
• Apply the playbook on ubuntu node and validate if website is up

Module 6: Ansible  Windows 2016 server node deployment ( Hands-on Lab by students)

• Deploy a  Windows 2016 server
• Configure it as windows node under ansible management

Module 7:   Playbook for windows 2016 node ( Hands-on Lab by students)

• Create an IIS playbook directory
• Write resource code to automate IIS role on windows server
• Apply the playbook on Windows node and validate if website is up

Ansible Playbooks –  ( hands-on labs)

• Conditionals Module
• Until Module
• Notify Module
• Vault Module
• Prompt – Interactive Playbook
• When Module
• The ‘MySQL_DB’ Module
• The ‘MySQL_User’ Module
• The ‘Pause’ Module
• The ‘WaitFor’ Module
• The ‘Command’ Module
• The ‘Cron’ Module
• The ‘Debug’ Module
• The ‘Fetch’ Module