Understanding basic Ansible components:

• inventory file – developing, configuring, using at administrator’s work
• Ansible modules – structure, most frequently used modules at work with Linux systems, the use in practice
• Variables
• Ansible facts – gathering, using in playbooks, templates etc.
• playbooks – most important elements, good practices in writing one’s own playbooks, running, coordinating the execution etc.
• configuration files – position, most important variables, the use of several configuration files in the projects
• gaining knowledge based on documentation, use in practice (ad-hoc commands, playbooks etc.)

Implementing automation platform with Ansible

• Installing necessary software, dependencies, software versions etc.
• preparing management system
• configuring Clients (generating authentication keys, configuring sshd service, configuring system authorisations)
• preparing configuration files
• best practices while developing inventory file
• dynamic inventory
• checking the accuracy of environment’s functioning, connection with Clients etc.

Working with main modules in typical administration tasks:

• Software and repository management
• Group, system users management
• access rights management
• working with filesystem
• Firewall configuration
• Service management in the system
• Configuring with disks and local partitions (among others LVM)
• archivisation, backups etc.
• managing files and their content (especially system configuration files)
• SELinux configuration
• task scheduling in the system (crond)

Working with scripts

• Preparing the script for the needs of automation
• Using the script during the process of automating environment work

Ansible playbooks

• YAML language description
• Sprawdzanie checking the correct syntax, error detection
• Preparing the editor in terms of work with YAML language
• importing external playbooks, tasks, variables etc.
• optimising and improving already existing playbooks
• error interception
• working with variables
• the use of conditions in playbooks
• navigating the execution of particular plays
• the use of handlers

Ansible roles

• Structure of ansible roles
• creating the role
• the use of your own roles in server automation
• successful search of roles in Ansible Galaxy

Advanced Ansible aspects:

• securing playbooks and remaining components (for example, files with variables) with the use of Ansible Vault
• the use of templates jinja2
• navigating structures in jinja2
• logging Ansible events
• troubleshooting
• checking the correct syntax of playbooks
• validating the accuracy of creating playbooks
• parallelism, pipelining
• accelerating Ansible functioning