Ansible Tower Overview | Udemy

Ansible Tower is designed for IT professionals who use Ansible and need to centrally manage their Ansible projects in a way that scales to large teams and complex enterprise installations, using Ansible Tower.

Course Content

Introduction to Ansible Tower

• Overview of Ansible
• Introduction to Ansible Tower
• Ansible Tower Features
• Ansible Tower Setup

Installing Ansible Tower

• Installation Steps of Ansible
• Overview of Ansible Setup, AD-Hoc Commands and running Playbook
• Installation of Ansible Tower
• Orientation to the Ansible Tower Web Interface

Ansible Tower Web Interface

• Overview of Tower Dashboard
• Resources like Templates, Credentials, Projects & Inventories etc
• Practice Lab Session – Running a job to update a content in a file
• Practice Lab Session – Running a job to restart a service

Creating Users and Teams for Role-Based Access Control

• Overview of RBAC
• Creating & Managing Ansible Tower Users
• Various User Types
• Organization Role
• Lab Session 1 – Creating and Managing Ansible Tower Users
• Lab Session 2 – Delegating permissions to a normal user to execute a job template
• Lab Session 3 – Delegating permissions to a normal user to access, edit or update a inventory
• Lab Session 4 – Delegating permissions to a normal user to run a AD-Hoc Commands
• Managing Users with Teams
• Practice Lab Session

Creating & Managing Inventories & Credentials

• Creating a Static Inventory
• Practice Lab Session
• Creating Machine Credentials for Access to Inventory Hosts
• Credential Types
• Practice Lab Session

GitHub

• Overview of GitHub
• Install and Configure Git
• Create a GitHub Account
• Creating a local Git Repository
• Push the files from local Git Repository to remote GitHub Repository
• Pull the from GitHub Repo to Local repo
• Managing Ansible Projects using Git
• Practice Lab Session

Dynamic Inventory

• Overview of Dynamic Inventories
• Configuring a Dynamic Inventory for AWS EC2 Environment
• Creating AWS Credentials on Tower
• Practice Lab : Sync to update Inventory for newly added EC2 hosts or decommissioned servers

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