Getting Started with Ansible on Windows

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JP Toto

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getting-started-ansible-windows.zip

Module 1 - Course Overview

1. Course Overview.mp4

01:34

Module 2 - Explaining Ansible Concepts and Installing

1. Introduction.mp4

02:44

2. Ansible History and Workings.mp4

01:40

3. Work Scenario and Installing Ansible.mp4

06:20

4. Configuring Windows Domain, Hosts, and Testing.mp4

12:24

Module 3 - Implementing Ansible Inventory

1. Introduction to Ansible Inventory.mp4

01:26

2. Ansible Inventory Concepts.mp4

03:24

3. Updating the Inventory with Groups.mp4

02:26

4. Updating the Inventory by Operating System.mp4

03:27

5. Inventory Summary.mp4

00:24

Module 4 - Writing Ansible Playbooks

1. What Are Playbooks.mp4

00:45

2. Introduction to Modules.mp4

02:08

3. Demo - The gather facts Module.mp4

01:08

4. Anatomy of a Playbook.mp4

02:43

5. A Simple Playbook.mp4

03:44

6. A Linux Web Server Playbook.mp4

03:20

7. A Windows IIS Playbook.mp4

05:32

8. Using Conditionals with Playbooks.mp4

03:33

Module 5 - Writing Ansible Roles

1. Introduction to Ansible Roles.mp4

03:08

2. Demo - Converting the Webserver Playbook into a Role.mp4

06:11

3. Ansible Templates.mp4

00:56

4. Demo - Converting the Index Files to Templates.mp4

03:55

5. Demo - Creating the Database Role.mp4

05:07

6. Course Summary.mp4

01:54

Description

This course will help you effectively use Ansible to manage Windows instances on an Active Directory domain.

What You'll Learn?

Managing servers on a Windows network with no tooling can be difficult and tedious, and trying to manually make changes consistently across a network of dozens or hundreds of servers on an Active Directory domain will invariably lead to mistakes. In this course, Getting Started with Ansible on Windows, you will see example scenarios from the role of DevOps Administrator at Globomantics corporation. First, you'll learn about Ansible modules and why they're important. Next, you will explore how to write Ansible playbooks to fully configure your web and database application servers. Finally, you will discover how to write Ansible roles to organize your code into manageable and predictable collections. By the end of this course, you will know how to use Ansible to fully automate the configuration and deployment of the application servers in a consistent, repeatable process.

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JP is a recovering enterprise consultant now living in the SaaS software products world. He has been writing C# for about ten years and has more recently picked up Ruby, Python, and some occasional GoLang, although recently Devops is where his heart has been. He makes his home in Philadelphia, PA where he works in financial technology at a great company called eMoney Advisor. He smokes his own bacon and is a sucker for delicious cured meats.

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