beginner path

Ansible Foundations to Production

Build and run a maintainable production Ansible project from scratch.

15 lessons 4 hours 15 hands-on labs

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What you will build

Deploy and harden a production web server

A production-ready web-server automation repository

Skills covered

Build inventories and validate SSH connectivity
Write idempotent playbooks for packages, files, users and services
Create reusable roles with variables, templates and handlers
Protect secrets with Ansible Vault
Ship a complete capstone repository with validation steps

Curriculum

Lesson 1: Introduction to Ansible and Automation

What learners take next

From Bonus — What's Next with Ansible?: The path's closing lesson maps your next step by goal: Advanced Playbooks for production-grade playbook work, AWS with Ansible for cloud infrastructure automation, or Ansible Automation Platform and AWX for operating automation as a team.