Hands-on Ansible Essentials | Introduction to Automation with Ansible
Hands-on Ansible / Introduction to Automation with Ansible is a three-day, lab-intensive course designed for professionals responsible for automating configuration management, application deployment, and server provisioning across development, testing, and production environments.
The course emphasizes practical, real-world automation using Ansible’s agentless architecture and human-readable YAML syntax. Participants gain hands-on experience implementing repeatable automation workflows for Linux administration, configuration management, and service deployment. Enterprise-focused topics such as Ansible Vault, Ansible Tower, project structuring with roles, and scalability best practices are also covered. Optional modules explore integration with Docker and CI/CD workflows.
This course is ideal for teams seeking to reduce manual effort, improve consistency, and scale infrastructure operations using Ansible.
- Describe Ansible architecture and core automation concepts
- Install and configure Ansible (or work with a pre-installed environment)
- Manage inventories and execute ad hoc Ansible commands
- Write and execute Ansible playbooks to automate tasks across multiple hosts
- Use variables and facts to simplify and scale playbooks
- Implement task control using handlers, tags, and error handling
- Deploy and manage files on managed hosts
- Structure and manage large Ansible projects
- Simplify automation using Ansible roles and reusable components
- Secure sensitive data using Ansible Vault
- Troubleshoot Ansible playbooks and managed hosts
- Automate common Linux system administration tasks
- Understand Ansible Tower architecture and enterprise use cases
- Linux System Administrators
- DevOps Engineers
- Infrastructure Automation Engineers
- Systems and Platform Engineers
- IT Professionals responsible for configuration management and deployment automation
- Introduction to Python Programming Basics (3 days)
- Introduction to Linux (3 days)