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<ul><li>What is YAML?</li><li>Syntax</li><li>YAML Styles</li></ul>

Introduction to YAML

<ul><li>Mapping</li><li>Sequences</li><li>Scalars</li><li>Structures</li><li>Comments</li><li>Tags</li><li>Anchors</li></ul>

YAML Breakdown

<ul><li>Final Thoughts</li><li>Next Steps</li></ul>

Conclusion

<ul><li>Open floor for questions and interactive exercises to reinforce learning.</li></ul>

Q&A and Hands-On Practice

<ul><li>Soliciting feedback from participants to improve future training sessions</li></ul>

Course Evaluation and Feedback

<ul><li>Final thoughts, thanking participants, and providing contact information for further assistance.</li></ul>

Closing Remarks

<ul><li>What is Ansible and Features</li><li>History and Releases</li><li>Agent versus Agentless</li><li>Ansible Architecture</li><li>Infrastructure as Code</li><li>Idempotency</li><li>Use cases</li></ul>

Introduction to Ansible

<ul><li>Building an Ansible Inventory</li><li>Ansible Configuration Files</li><li>Running Ad Hoc Commands</li><li>Managing Static &amp; Dynamic Inventories</li><li>Working with Ansible Modules</li><li>Ansible Plugins</li><li>Lab: Working with ansible default behavior</li><li>Lab: Customizing Ansible Configuration</li><li>Lab: Building Custom Ansible Inventory</li></ul>

Configuring Ansible

<ul><li>Ansible Ad-hoc Commands</li><li>Hosts</li><li>Tasks</li><li>Plays</li><li>Ansible Playbooks Introduction</li><li>Playbook Execution</li><li>Lab: Running Ad Hoc Commands</li><li>Lab: Working with Tasks</li><li>Lab: Implementing Multiple Tasks in a Play</li><li>Lab: Implementing Playbooks</li><li>Lab: Automated LAMP Setup Using Ansible</li></ul>

Ansible Playbooks Anatomy

<ul><li>Managing Variables  </li><li>Managing Secrets  </li><li>Managing Facts  </li><li>Lab: Managing Variables  </li><li>Lab: Managing Secrets  </li><li>Lab: Managing Facts  </li><li>Lab: Managing Variables and Facts  </li></ul>

Managing Variables and Facts

<ul><li>Loops and Conditionals</li><li>Handlers</li><li>Limiting Execution by Hosts (limit)</li><li>Limiting Execution by Tasks (tag)</li><li>Adding and Meeting Conditionals</li><li>Handling Errors</li><li>Lab: Writing Loops and Conditional Tasks  </li><li>Lab: Implementing Handlers  </li><li>Lab: Handling Task Failure  </li><li>Lab: Implementing Task Control  </li></ul>

Ansible Task control execution

<ul><li>Modifying and Copying Files to Hosts  </li><li>Deploying Custom Files with Jinja Templates  </li><li>Lab: Modifying and Copying Files to Hosts  </li><li>Lab: Deploying Custom Files with Jinja Templates  </li><li>Lab: Deploying Files to Managed Hosts  </li></ul>

Deploying Files to Managed Hosts

<ul><li>Selecting Hosts with Host Patterns  </li><li>Including and Importing Files  </li><li>Lab: Selecting Hosts with Host Patterns  </li><li>Lab: Including and Importing Files  </li><li>Lab: Managing Complex Plays and Playbooks  </li></ul>

Managing Complex Plays and Playbooks

<ul><li>Describing Role Structure  </li><li>Reusing Content with System Roles  </li><li>Creating Roles  </li><li>Deploying Roles with Ansible Galaxy  </li><li>Getting Roles and Modules from Content Collections  </li><li>Lab: Reusing Content with System Roles  </li><li>Lab: Creating Roles  </li><li>Lab: Deploying Roles with Ansible Galaxy  </li><li>Lab: Getting Roles and Modules from Content Collections  </li><li>Lab: Simplifying Playbooks with Roles  </li></ul>

Simplifying Playbooks with Roles

<ul><li>Selecting Hosts with Host Pattern</li><li>Configuring Delegation</li><li>Configuring Parallelism</li><li>Lab: Controlling playbook execution</li><li>Lab: Selecting Hosts with Host Patterns  </li><li>Lab: Including and Importing Files  </li><li>Lab: Managing Complex Plays and Playbooks  </li></ul>

Optimizing Ansible

<ul><li>SSH Keys</li><li>Configure Ansible Vault</li><li>Securing Passwords Using Vault</li><li>Executing with Ansible Vault</li><li>Lab: Managing Secrets Using Ansible Vaults</li></ul>

SSH Key and Credentials Management

<ul><li>Managing Software and Subscriptions  </li><li>Managing Users and Authentication  </li><li>Managing the Boot Process and Scheduled Processes  </li><li>Managing Storage  </li><li>Managing Network Configuration  </li><li>Lab: Managing Software and Subscriptions  </li><li>Lab: Managing Users and Authentication  </li><li>Lab: Managing the Boot Process and Scheduled Processes  </li><li>Lab: Managing Storage  </li><li>Lab: Managing Network Configuration  </li><li>Lab: Automating Linux Administration Tasks  </li></ul>

Automating Linux Administration Tasks

<ul><li>Introduction to Ansible Tower</li><li>System Requirements</li><li>How AWX Works</li><li>AWX Vocabulary</li><li>Setting up Environment</li><li>Installing Ansible Tower</li><li>Navigating the Ansible Tower Web Interface</li><li>Lab: Installing Ansible Tower</li></ul>

Ansible Tower

<ul><li>Clone a Git repository</li><li>Update, modify and create files in a Git repository</li><li>Add those modified files back into the Git repository</li><li>Lab: Working with Git</li><li>Lab: CI/CD with Ansible Tower and GitHub</li></ul>

Understand and use Git

<ul><li>Create Ansible Tower users and teams and make associations of one to the other</li><li>Lab: Managing Users and Teams</li></ul>

Manage access for Ansible Tower

<ul><li>Manage advanced inventories</li><li>Create a dynamic inventory from an identity management server or a database server</li><li>Create machine credentials to access inventory hosts</li><li>Create a source control credential</li><li>Lab: Managing Credentials</li></ul>

Manage inventories and credentials

<ul><li>Create a job template</li><li>Lab: Managing Projects</li></ul>

Manage projects

<ul><li>Create a job workflow template</li><li>Lab: Managing Job Workflow</li></ul>

Manage job workflows

<ul><li>Write an API scriptlet to launch a job</li><li>Lab: Work with the Ansible Tower API</li></ul>

Work with the Ansible Tower API

<ul><li>Minimize downtime and ensure maintainability and simplicity of Ansible Playbooks by using the advanced features of Ansible to manage rolling updates</li></ul>

Coordinate rolling updates

<ul><li>Build and operate a proof-of-concept CI/CD pipeline based on Ansible Automation and integrating Red Hat Ansible Tower</li></ul>

Create a simple CI/CD pipeline with Ansible Tower

<ul><li>Troubleshooting Playbooks</li><li>Troubleshooting Ansible Managed Hosts</li><li>Ordering Problems</li><li>Jumping to Specific Tasks</li><li>Retrying Failed Hosts</li><li>Syntax-Check and Dry-Run</li><li>Debugging</li><li>Lab: Troubleshooting Playbooks  </li><li>Lab: Troubleshooting Ansible Managed Hosts  </li><li>Lab: Troubleshooting Ansible  </li></ul>

Troubleshooting, Testing, and Validation

Familiarity with Command Line Interface (CLI)

Fundamental knowledge of editors on linux (any one of vi/nano/emacs)

Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP)

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