OVERVIEW
Building Strategic Influence in Matrix Organizations

Ansible helps bring about IT automation, eliminating repetitive tasks and enabling DevOps teams to focus on more strategic work. Ansible enables DevOps teams to carry out App deployment and configuration management. It is a powerful automation tool that can be learnt quickly.

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN
Why you shouldn't miss this course

By the end of this course, participants will have the leadership toolkit to shape and steer GenAI portfolios across their organization.

01Development of Ansible
02Advantages and limitations of using Ansible
03A brief into Configuration and Deployment
04Variables and Modules
05Playbooks
06Dealing with Modules

PREREQUISITES
Recommended experience

CURRICULUM
Structured for
Strategic Application
  • A brief into Ansible
  • Why Ansible?
  • Demonstration – From Bash to Ansible
  • Basic Ansible Jargon
  • Ansible – New Features
  • Creating an Ansible Home Base
  • Ansible Installation
  • Setting up the Test Environment
  • Target Machine Requirements
  • Configuration Hierarchy in Ansible
  • Hosts Inventory File in Ansible
  • Ad-Hoc Commands in Ansible
  • A brief into Playbooks
  • Playbook Structure
  • A brief into Modules
  • Common Modules
  • Variables and Facts
  • Real-Life Playbook: Mattermost Deployment
  • Real-Life Playbook: Walkthrough
  • Debugging and Troubleshooting in Ansible
  • Conditionals and Control Flow in Ansible
  • Templating, Control Flow, and Iteration in Jinja2
  • YAML Basics
  • Ansible Blocks
  • Performance and Execution Strategies
  • Ansible Galaxy
  • Ansible in the Cloud
  • Ansible AWS Demo
  • Ansible Tower
  • Security

RECOMMENDED PARTICIPANT SETUP
This course follows Cognixia's AI-first,
hands-on learning model

Access to sanitized process maps, KPI definitions, candidate initiative lists, and basic cost baselines (time, cycle time, error or rework rates)

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Available in 5 delivery formats globally
Volume pricing for teams of 10+
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WHY COGNIXIA
Why Cognixia for This Course

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