Module 1: Ansible Development with Containers

• Learn how to build docker images and establish a workflow for using containers to develop Ansible code. You'll understand the process of installing, building, and using Ansible from inside a docker container.

Module 2: Deploy an Ansible Dev Environment

• Learn how to deploy a Windows and Linux virtual machine to Azure using Ansible. You'll discover the process of creating an Azure service principal to be used to authenticate to Azure from Ansible, how to use Ansible to deploy a Windows 2019 and CentOS 8 virtual machine, and how you can leverage existing Azure extensions to provision the virtual machines for remote management with Ansible.

Module 3: Starting at the Source

• Learn the foundations of to Git for storing Ansible code. You'll see how to create a Github repository for Ansible code, and how to use git commands to add, commit, and push example code to the repository.

Module 4: Use ad-hoc Ansible Commands

• Learn how to run Ansible ad-hoc commands. Understand the benefits of idempotent operations. And when ad-hoc commands are most useful. Watch ad-hoc commands against localhost and remote hosts, and perform basic operations such as ping, file copy, file manipulation, and task debugging.

Module 5: What is Repeated is a Playbook

• Make Ansible automation repeatable with Playbooks and learn the basics of Ansible playbook language. Discover how to build repeatable Ansible automation by converting ad-hoc tasks to playbooks Author playbooks to configure an Nginx and IIS web server, and run the playbooks to configure the remote hosts.

Module 6: Take Inventory of the Infrastructure

• Learn how to use Ansible inventories to store host lists and groups. See how you can create Ansible ini and yml inventory files to list hosts and define group memberships. Use Ansible inventories while running playbooks to reduce the complexity and simplify the execution experience.

Module 7: Making Reusable Configurations

• Learn how to combine playbooks to create a site configuration, create non-galaxy and galaxy roles to install Chocolatey for Business, and how to use a Github repository to store the galaxy role and use release tags to version lock the configuration.