README.md

Ansible Labs

Lab Environment

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS workstation with Ansible installed.

Requirements

• All these labs are for ansible, your instructor will review UNIX commands with you before working on ansible
• Ansible uses YAML files, your instructor will cover and talk about how to create a yaml file with you
• At the time of writing this lab, there are over 3000 modules; we will only cover some of them as an example.

Labs

1. Installation and Setup

• 1.1 Install Ansible
• 1.2 Setup Inventory

2. AdHoc

• 2.1 Ping Hosts
• 2.2 Facts
• 2.3 File/folder manipulations

3. Variables

• Basic Playbook
• Variable in Playbook
• Prompt the user
• Variables in external
• Include Variables
• Register Variable
• Set Fact
• Get Facts
• Include Tasks

4. Condition

• Basic
• Cast variables
• Complex
• Assert
• Challenge

5. Loops

• With_items
• Loop
• Loop with external variable
• Loop external task file

6. Handler

• Handler

7. Blocks

• Block

8. Templates

• Template

9. Ansible Vault

• Vault

10. Roles

• Roles

Extra

• Log per host
• Fact cache