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Dive Into Ansible - From Beginner to Expert in Ansible

7h 33m 21s
English
Free

Ansible helps you automate your servers and apps with clear tasks and simple steps. You describe what you want, and Ansible makes it happen across many machines at once.

What You Will Learn

You start with how Ansible works under the hood. You see how it connects to systems and runs tasks in order. You learn why its simple model helps you manage many servers at scale.

Ansible Basics

You learn about key parts of Ansible. These include inventories, modules, and playbooks. You write playbooks in YAML and run them to change system state.

Working With Playbooks

You build stronger playbooks that handle more tasks. You learn how to group tasks, set variables, and reuse code. You create clear roles that keep your files easy to read and update.

Ansible With Cloud and Containers

You use Ansible to work with cloud tools and container setups. You see how to provision AWS resources. You also learn how to manage Docker hosts and images with Ansible tasks.

Debugging and Testing

You learn how to spot problems in playbooks and fix them fast. You run checks to confirm the tasks did what you expected. You use small tests to keep your setup safe and stable.

About the Author: Udemy

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Udemy is the largest open marketplace for online courses on the internet. Founded in 2010 by Eren Bali, Oktay Caglar, and Gagan Biyani and headquartered in San Francisco, the company went public on the Nasdaq in 2021 under the ticker UDMY. The platform hosts well over two hundred thousand courses across software development, IT and cloud, data science, design, business, marketing, and creative skills, taught by tens of thousands of independent instructors. Roughly seventy million learners use it worldwide, and the corporate arm — Udemy Business — supplies a curated subset of that catalog to enterprise customers.

Because Udemy is a marketplace rather than a single editorial publisher, the catalog is uneven by design. The strongest material lives in the long-form, project-based courses authored by working engineers — full-stack JavaScript, React, Node.js, Python data science, AWS, Docker and Kubernetes, mobile development with Flutter and React Native, and cloud certification preparation. The CourseFlix listing under this source is the slice of that catalog that has been mirrored here for offline-friendly viewing, organized by topic and updated as new releases land. Pricing on Udemy itself swings dramatically with the site's near-permanent sales, which is why the platform is best treated as a deep reference catalog: pick instructors with strong reviews and a track record of updating their material rather than buying on the headline price alone.

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1Motivations, Learning Outcomes and Course Structure 05:09
2Introduction to Ansible 04:46
3Installing Docker 09:47
4Installing the Ansible Lab 09:03
5Configuring SSH connectivity between hosts 14:46
6Setting up the Course Repository 02:01
7Section 1 & 2 Quiz 05:01
8Ansible Configuration 08:38
9Ansible Inventories 26:54
10Ansible Modules 16:42
11YAML 26:04
12Ansible Playbooks, Breakdown of Sections 23:06
13Ansible Playbooks, Variables 13:22
14Ansible Playbooks, Facts 15:38
15Templating with Jinja2 12:34
16Ansible Playbooks, Creating and Executing 23:30
17Ansible Playbook Modules 16:35
18Dynamic Inventories 14:51
19Register and When 10:55
20Looping 23:03
21Asynchronous, Serial, Parallel 20:13
22Task Delegation 09:37
23Magic Variables 03:34
24Blocks 04:11
25Vault 15:31
26Using Includes and Imports 07:41
27Using Tags 11:36
28Using Roles 17:44
29AWS with Ansible 21:57
30Docker with Ansible 11:59
31Creating Modules 15:40
32Creating Plugins 13:39
33Troubleshooting Ansible 09:21
34Best Practices with Ansible 04:40
35Credits and Thanks 03:33

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Ansible helps you automate your servers and apps with clear tasks and simple steps. You describe what you want, and Ansible makes it happen across many machines at once. What You Will Learn You start with how Ansible works under the hood…
Who teaches this course?
It is taught by Udemy. You can find more courses by this instructor on the corresponding source page.
How long is the course?
It contains 35 lessons with a total runtime of 7 hours 33 minutes. Every lesson is available to watch online at your own pace.
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