Many ansible online course (s)  are available online, but here in this ansible tutorial for beginners we also address challenges faced by novice users. Also covers the topic like setting up initial environment where you can make your hands dirty in using ansible.

While DEVOPS automation is a collection of steps, one of the most important step is infrastructure configuration and management. There are a good number of tools which take care of infrastructure configuration and management, but for the current scope we will cover ansible. If you are interested to learn more about DEVOPS, we would recommend you to go through the following link in order to get a brief introduction.

To whom is this tutorial applicable and can help improve their career?

Any fresh graduate, automated testing users or say it can be anyone who has interest to automate software provisioning, configuration management and application deployment can get their careers to next level by going through this ansible online course.

Ansible online course structure of ansible tutorial for beginners:

• Introduction to ansible
  •  Why Ansible
  • Comparison with other devops tools
  • Ansible architecture
  • Steps to setup environment to practice ansible
• Ansible hands on
  • Working with inventory file
  • Basic ansible commands
  • Your first ansible command – ping servers
  • Install database using ansible
  • Explore few more ansible commands
• Ansible playbooks
  • Your first ansible playbook
  • Advanced playbooks

Ansible uses YAML ( Yiant Another Markup Language ) as its language to write the required actions, which are for either software provisioning, configuration management and application deployments. Very important thing to consider here is, we should be careful of not giving any tabs in the YAML configuration file. If we need any gaps in the code for proper indentation, we should only use spaces.

We will keep this ansible online course structure active, request to kindly share your interested topics in form of comments.  We will try our best to cover them as time passes on.