Ansible Playbooks, Variables, and Handlers

This course takes your Ansible skills to the next level, focusing on advanced playbook development, dynamic automation with variables and facts, configuration management with templates, and secure data handling using Ansible Vault.

Ansible is an open-source automation tool used to manage systems, deploy applications, and handle IT tasks without manual intervention. In this course, Ansible Playbooks, Variables, and Handlers, you will learn how to develop advanced playbooks and work with the key features which Ansible offers. First, you will explore the structure of Ansible playbooks, including tasks, plays, roles, loops, and conditionals. Next, you will discover how to work with variables and facts to create playbooks that adjust to different environments. After that, you will use Jinja2 templates to create custom configuration files as well as implement handlers to automate responses to specific changes. Finally, you will learn to work with Ansible Vault to protect sensitive data like passwords and credentials. By the end of this course, you will be able to write advanced playbooks, automate tasks using variables, create custom files using templates and securely manage data with Ansible Vault.