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Infrastructure Automation with Ansible
The infrastructure automation learning series is an educational program designed to equip individuals with the skills and knowledge needed to automate and manage complex IT infrastructures efficiently. Participants learn how to streamline and standardize infrastructure deployment, configuration, and management processes. The series delves into best practices for creating scalable, reliable, and secure infrastructure, enabling learners to implement automation solutions effectively within various IT environments. By the end of the program, individuals gain a comprehensive understanding of automation tools and strategies that enhance productivity, reduce manual intervention, and optimize infrastructure operations.
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Data-driven Automation with Netbox
In this hands-on lab, learners will explore how to build and configure a data-driven automation workflow using Ansible Automation Platform and NetBox. The lab guides users through practical exercises that demonstrate how real-time source of truth changes can trigger automated configuration. Participants will configure NetBox event rules and webhooks to emit actionable events, set up Event-Driven Ansible event streams to receive and process those events, and create rulebook activations that respond intelligently. By the end of the lab, learners will have a working solution that tightly integrates their source of truth with automation workflows—enabling scalable, responsive infrastructure management.
Infrastructure Automation with Ansible
In today's complex and fast-paced IT landscape, the need for automation has never been greater. Organizations of all sizes are looking for solutions that can streamline their operations, enhance efficiency, and reduce errors. Ansible stands out as a powerful automation tool, hitting the mark on several key points that make it an ideal choice for teams of all backgrounds and expertise levels. Its human-readable YAML playbooks mean automation isn't locked behind a wall of scripting expertise — system administrators, developers, and network engineers can all read the same playbook and understand exactly what it does. Because Ansible is agent-less, communicating over standard SSH rather than requiring software installed on every managed device, it drops cleanly into almost any environment, from cloud infrastructure to the network gear already running in your data center. And with a vast library of pre-built modules covering everything from web servers to routers and switches, teams spend less time reinventing automation from scratch and more time putting it to work. This learning path will take you from these core concepts through hands-on labs building real automation against live network devices, giving you the foundation to bring this same approach back to your own infrastructure.
Infrastructure Automation with Ansible Automation Platform
This learning path is designed to take your automation journey to the next level. The goal of this learning path is prepare you to implement your automation in an enterprise environment using the Ansible Automation Platform.
Infrastructure Automation Source of Truth
The Infrastructure Automation Source of Truth learning path is designed to teach infrastructure engineers the critical concepts of managing data for their automation. This learning path will help you understand what a Source of Truth is and what considerations you account for when building your Source of Truth.
Following the Source of Truth overview, you will dive into two specific Source of Truth solutions: Text File-based Source of Truth and NetBox as a Source of Truth.
In the Text File SoT section, you will learn how to use a files-based source of truth in your automation effectively. This module will guide you through different methods of managing and consuming text files as a source of automation data.
The NetBox module is designed to teach you how to interface with NetBox as a source of truth for variable data and inventory.
The hands-on labs for file-based and NetBox SoT are packed with guided challenges to deliver practical practice for the concepts covered.
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Ansible Engine Inventory
This learning path module will teach you about the Ansible Inventory.
What role does inventory play?
What types of inventory are there?
What formats can inventory be in?
A hands-on challenge will guide you through inspecting a static Ansible Inventory, comparing INI and YAML formatted inventories, and working with the Ansible settings to specify the inventory location.
Infrastructure Automation with Ansible
In today's complex and fast-paced IT landscape, the need for automation has never been greater. Organizations of all sizes are looking for solutions that can streamline their operations, enhance efficiency, and reduce errors. Ansible stands out as a powerful automation tool, hitting the mark on several key points that make it an ideal choice for teams of all backgrounds and expertise levels. Its human-readable YAML playbooks mean automation isn't locked behind a wall of scripting expertise — system administrators, developers, and network engineers can all read the same playbook and understand exactly what it does. Because Ansible is agent-less, communicating over standard SSH rather than requiring software installed on every managed device, it drops cleanly into almost any environment, from cloud infrastructure to the network gear already running in your data center. And with a vast library of pre-built modules covering everything from web servers to routers and switches, teams spend less time reinventing automation from scratch and more time putting it to work. This learning path will take you from these core concepts through hands-on labs building real automation against live network devices, giving you the foundation to bring this same approach back to your own infrastructure.
Infrastructure Automation with Ansible
The infrastructure automation learning series is an educational program designed to equip individuals with the skills and knowledge needed to automate and manage complex IT infrastructures efficiently. Participants learn how to streamline and standardize infrastructure deployment, configuration, and management processes. The series delves into best practices for creating scalable, reliable, and secure infrastructure, enabling learners to implement automation solutions effectively within various IT environments. By the end of the program, individuals gain a comprehensive understanding of automation tools and strategies that enhance productivity, reduce manual intervention, and optimize infrastructure operations.
Ansible Engine Setup
This lab is the first module of the Infrastructure automation with Ansible learning path.
This learning path module begins with an overview of Ansible Engine and it's key components. You will learning about the roles each component plays in the overall Ansible Engine solution. This overview aims to answer these questions:
- Why Ansible?
- What is Ansible?
- How does Ansible work?
Following the overview you will be challenged with a hands-on lab which will guide you through setting up your local development environment for Ansible.
- Create a Python Virtual Environment
- Configure Visual Studio Code
Ansible Engine Playbook
Ansible playbooks define what and how changes are made to managed nodes in the Ansible automation system.
This learning path module will inspect the anatomy of a playbook and highlight the key components.
Ansible Engine Parsing and Transforming Data Introduction
This video introduces the Ansible Utils Collection's CLI Parse module, and the problem it solves: converting unstructured CLI output into structured data your automation can actually use. You'll learn how CLI Parse can either run a command and parse its output in one step, or parse existing text, and you'll get an overview of its CLI parser plugins, including TextFSM, NTC Templates, and PyATS, along with what makes each one different and when you might reach for one over another.
Infrastructure Automation: Automated Testing
This learning path is designed to guide infrastructure engineers through the essential concepts of automated testing in the context of infrastructure automation. You will learn how to integrate Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines into your automation workflows, implement static code analysis to ensure code quality, and master Ansible Molecule for testing and validating infrastructure automation code. By the end of this learning path, you will be equipped to integrate testing into your automation efforts.
This learning path is part of the Infrastructure Automation with Ansible Learning Series.
Ansible Engine Variables
Variables are the key to making flexible and reusable automation. In this module, you'll unlock the power of dynamic automation using Ansible variables. This learning module is designed to provide you with the knowledge and skills needed to leverage variables effectively in your automation workflows.
Ansible Engine Variables Introduction
This video covers Ansible variables — what they are, where you can define them, and how precedence decides which value wins when the same variable is set in multiple places. You'll see variables defined in inventory files, host_vars/group_vars folders, playbooks, vars_files, and extra_vars on the command line, each with its own priority. It also covers creating variables dynamically through the facts module and the register attribute, which captures a task's output for later use. Mastering variables is what makes roles and playbooks reusable across different hosts and environments, and it sets up the hands-on lab where you'll put them to work.
CICD for Automation Engineers
This lab is a component of the Infrastructure Automation Automated Testing learning path in the Infrastructure Automation with Ansible Learning Series. The goal of this learning path is to provide hands-on and practical exposure to the concepts of implementing Continuous Integration Continuous Delivery.
The lab will utilize Gitea as the Source Code Manager (SCM) which includes Gitea Actions for executing CICD Workflows. Gitea Actions map almost identically to GitHub actions so the Gitea specific knowledge gained maps directly to GitHub implementations. The general concepts learned through this lab are also valuable and applicable across other implementations.
Ansible Ad hoc Commands Introduction
Run your first real Ansible automation with ad hoc commands — single-task, one-off commands executed straight from the CLI, no playbook required. This lab covers what they are and where they shine: quick triage during an outage, checking error counters, rebooting or restarting services across a group of devices, or pushing a fast patch. It's the most direct way to get hands-on with Ansible before building out full playbooks.
Infrastructure Automation Source of Truth - Text Files
Learn how to effectively use a files-based source of truth in your automation. This learning path is designed to guide the user through different methods of managing and consuming text files as a source of automation data.
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Data-driven Automation with Netbox
In this hands-on lab, learners will explore how to build and configure a data-driven automation workflow using Ansible Automation Platform and NetBox. The lab guides users through practical exercises that demonstrate how real-time source of truth changes can trigger automated configuration. Participants will configure NetBox event rules and webhooks to emit actionable events, set up Event-Driven Ansible event streams to receive and process those events, and create rulebook activations that respond intelligently. By the end of the lab, learners will have a working solution that tightly integrates their source of truth with automation workflows—enabling scalable, responsive infrastructure management.
Ansible Automation Platform Overview
This Ansible Automation Platform Overview lab is a component of the Infrastructure Automation with Ansible Automation Platform learning path.
The goal of this lab is to educate Ansible Automation Engineers already familiar with Ansible Engine how to transition their automation to the Ansible Automation Platform.
Ansible Navigator
This module is a component of the "Infrastructure Automation with Ansible Automation Platform" learning path. The consumer will learn what ansible-navigator is, how it works, and how to use it to develop Ansible content locally.
Ansible Execution Environments
This module is a component of the "Infrastructure Automation with Ansible Automation Platform" learning path. The consumer of this lab will understand what execution environments are, how to build them, and how they are used.
Implementing Automation in AAP
This module is a component of the "Infrastructure Automation with Ansible Automation Platform" learning path. The consumer will learn how to configure the necessary elements of the Ansible Automation Controller to enable the execution of their automation.
Introduction to Ansible Molecule
Explore the fundamentals of Ansible Molecule in this hands-on lab, designed to introduce learners to automated testing for Ansible roles and playbooks. Participants will gain practical experience in setting up test scenarios, running Ansible Molecule's various stages from the command line, and integrating Ansible Molecule with a CICD pipeline.
Infrastructure Automation Source of Truth - NetBox
This lab is part of the Infrastructure Automation Source of Truth Learning Path and is designed to teach the user how to interface with NetBox as a source of truth for variable data and inventory.
Ansible Automation Hub
Ansible Automation Hub is a Content Management System. Environments using the Ansible Automation Platform will have access to Automation Hub to manage the Ansible Content available for use through the Ansible Automation Platform.
This module focuses on teaching the learner about the features and how to integrate Automation Hub into their development workflow.