Automating deployments with Ansible

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Automating deployments with Ansible

Submitted Mar 31, 2017

Section: Tutorials and workshops on platform technologies Technical level: Beginner

Ansible is an IT automation tool that can be used to configure, deploy and orchestrate many different Infrastructure based tasks. Ansible can be used for system configuration, software deployment, application or infrastructure orchestration, more importantly it is agent less and no master/slave configuration required for it. It uses yml to write playbook which is readable and easy to manageable, did I not mention it’s comes with batteries included.

Outline

This workshop aims to hands-on upon the following topics:

Ansible Basics : 10 mins
Inventory : 5 mins
Modules : 15 mins
Playbook : 5 mins
Variable : 10 mins
Playbook template : 15 mins
Condition Handling : 5 mins
Adhoc run : 5 mins
System Configuration : 10 mins
Application Orchestration: 10 mins
Cloud Infra management (Docker, openstack, AWS): 10 mins
Creating custom modules: 15 mins
Ansible Vault: 10 mins
Q&A : 15 mins

Workshop duration: 3 hour
Maximum Number of participants: 25

Requirements

Ansible (For major distros you can use package manager to install it otherwise use pip)
Vim or any editor of your choice (for creating playbooks)
A Centos7 or Fedora 25 Virtual machine is recommended, but having a bare-metal is also fine.
Attendees have network access to install packages over network (if not have it pre-installed) also if want to try Cloud-Infra management which hit cloud provider API.

Speaker bio

Praveen Kumar works at Red Hat, in developers tool team where he build tools to help developers to build containerized application.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Kumarpraveen

Shubham works at Red Hat in the Developer Tools team as a software engineer. He contributes to tools facilitating DevOps roles, mostly revolving around containers. He is a Red Hat Certified Architect.

Links

The workshop content : http://workshop-ansible.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html
Further reading and reference:
- http://www.ansible.com/home
- http://docs.ansible.com/

Slides

http://workshop-ansible.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html

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