Cloud Management and Deployment with Ansible

Ansible continues to gain traction as a powerful, enterprise level configuration and deployment management tool. With it’s standardized Playbook formatting and reliance on Python standards, it is easy to use, quick to learn and puts the power of automation at everyone’s fingertips.

This training course with Alexander Dobriakov walks you through the essentials of Ansible, cloud provisioning, configuration management and several other IT tasks. Throughout this course, you will develop the knowledge and skills required to install, configure, and manage software with Ansible, while learning about playbooks, roles, templates, loops and conditionals and more.

– Motivation behind Config Management
– Inventory: static vs dynamic
– Tasks and Playbooks
– More structure with roles
– Modules, Groups, Group Vars
– Extend Ansible with custom modules
– Ansible with Docker: Ansible-container vs Dockerfile
– Ansible for a cloud specific environment

Alexander is a Software Developer and Architect with over two decades of experience in the IT industry. His background includes management, engineering and coaching in software development and cloud computing.

Alexander teaches courses on Cloud Computing to transfer his own lessons to those who are faced with managing complex server and network environments, as well as to apply software development practice and lean methodologies to the Software Delivery Pipeline.