Skill · Configuration management · Configure a fleet with Ansible
Install Ansible and configure its control node
Install ansible-core on the control node, understand its agentless architecture and declarative approach, place it against Terraform and Puppet, get started with the CLI and tune ansible.cfg.
Start lesson 1The Configuration management domain
- 10 lessons
- ~7 h 00 of reading
- 8 quizzes
- 0 proof lab
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Where it comes from, where it leads
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This skill, for you
Install Ansible and configure its control node
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Lessons
How to learn it
10 lessons, about ~7 h 00, in program order. Each lesson ends with its quiz.
The program
10 lessons · ~7 h 00
- 1Découvrir Ansible (in French)· 5 min
- 2Présentation d'Ansible (in French)· 35 min
- 3Architecture Ansible (in French)· 40 min
- 4Déclaratif vs impératif (in French)· 70 min
- 5Ansible vs Terraform vs Puppet (in French)· 15 min
- 6Alternatives à Ansible : Salt, Chef, Puppet ou Rudder ? (in French)· 30 min
- 7Installer Ansible (in French)· 70 min
- 8Prise en main de la CLI (in French)· 65 min
- 9Le fichier ansible.cfg (in French)· 75 min
- 10Quiz Découvrir (in French)· 15 min
Beyond the lessons
Assess, practise, pass the proof
Reading a lesson confirms nothing. A skill is confirmed by a passed quiz, practised in a guided lab, and put to the test by a challenge or a mission; an imported lab result is not verified by the site.
Assess yourself
8 quizzes
At the end of the lessons: passed at 70%, they confirm the skill.
Practice
4 guided labs
Proof
No proof
Neither a challenge nor a mission with a proof yet.
Placement test
Preparing the questions…
Your answers in detail
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Around it
Who requires it, who teaches it
Required by
- RHCE (EX294, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9)
In red: the certification it prepares for.
Taught by
Same block · Configure a fleet with Ansible
- Prepare managed nodes and run ad hoc commands
- Describe a fleet in a static Ansible inventory: groups, variables and patterns
- Write a readable, idempotent Ansible playbook
- Parameterise an Ansible playbook: variables, facts, precedence and Jinja2 filters
- Control playbook execution: parallelism, async, delegation and inclusion
- Structure Ansible into roles and collections
- Protect the secrets of an Ansible project: Ansible Vault and external vaults
- Troubleshoot and run Ansible in production: verbosity, debugger, idempotence and ansible-pull