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Ansible & Configuration Management

The planned outline of 15 modules. Lessons are written, run and reviewed before they are published.

Coming soon 15 modules

Coming soon. This track is being written. Below is its planned outline: a lesson appears here once its examples have been run and its technical review is signed off.

Before this track

Planned outline

  1. Module 1

    Foundations: configuration management and Ansible

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  2. Module 2

    Inventories: hosts, groups and variables

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  3. Module 3

    Connections, SSH and privilege escalation

    Coming soon
  4. Module 4

    Playbooks, idempotence and everyday modules

    Coming soon
  5. Module 5

    Variables, facts and control flow

    Coming soon
  6. Module 6

    Jinja2 templates and data manipulation

    Coming soon
  7. Module 7

    Task control, errors and orchestration

    Coming soon
  8. Module 8

    Roles and collections

    Coming soon
  9. Module 9

    Secrets and security

    Coming soon
  10. Module 10

    Testing and quality

    Coming soon
  11. Module 11

    Extending Ansible with modules and plugins

    Coming soon
  12. Module 12

    Network automation

    Coming soon
  13. Module 13

    Execution environments, AWX and event-driven automation

    Coming soon
  14. Module 14

    Real-world automation and operations

    Coming soon
  15. Module 15

    Exams and interviews

    Coming soon

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