Skill · Configuration management · Configure a fleet with Ansible
Prepare managed nodes and run ad hoc commands
Set up a lab of managed nodes reachable over SSH, write a first inventory, check the connection, then run ad hoc commands with the essential modules.
Start lesson 1The Configuration management domain
- 7 lessons
- ~5 h 25 of reading
- 6 quizzes
- 0 proof lab
The path
Where it comes from, where it leads
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Before · 2 prerequisites
This skill, for you
Prepare managed nodes and run ad hoc commands
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It unlocks · 2 skills
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Lessons
How to learn it
7 lessons, about ~5 h 25, in program order. Each lesson ends with its quiz.
The program
7 lessons · ~5 h 25
Part 1 · Monter son lab et s'y connecter (in French) 5 lessons · ~3 h 55
Part 2 · Premières exécutions : de l'ad-hoc au playbook (in French) 2 lessons · ~1 h 30
- 6Commandes ad-hoc (in French)· 50 min
- 7Modules essentiels (cheat-sheet) (in French)· 40 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
6 quizzes
At the end of the lessons: passed at 70%, they confirm the skill.
Proof
No proof
Neither a challenge nor a mission with a proof yet.
Placement test
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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
- Install Ansible and configure its control node
- 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