Ansible Workshop

One Day workshop on understanding Ansible to automate cloud provisioning, configuration management, application deployment, intra-service orchestration, and many other IT needs.

Prerequisite

Any Linux machine/VM with following packages installed

• Python 3.6 or above
• pip3
• git (any recent version)

GitHub account

• Create an account on GitHub (if you don't already have one)
• Fork this repository and then clone it to your machine
• You can refer this guide to understand how to fork and clone

Docker

• To install docker go to your cloned repository and run the following command
• sudo prerequisites/install_docker.sh

What will you learn by the end of this workshop?

• By the end of this workshop you will understand what is ansible and how to install it
• You will understand how to run Ad-hoc commands via Ansible
• You will understand what are Ansible Playbooks and how to write them
• You will understand what are Ansible variables and how to use them in template
• You will have installed Docker and Docker Compose on your machine via Ansible

Schedule

Time	Topics
09:00 - 9:30	Introduction to Git
9:30 - 10:00	What is Ansible
10:00 - 10:30	Intstalling Ansible
10:30 - 11:30	Running Ad hoc commands
11:30 - 1:00	Writing your first playbook
1:00 - 2:00	Break
2:00 - 2:30	Variables
2:30 - 3:00	Conditionals and Loops
3:00 - 3:30	Templates
3:30 - 4:30	Q & A and Wrapping Up