a) Key concepts:

• What is Ansible?
• How ansible works.
• What are the benefits of Ansible?

b) How to install Ansible:

• Prerequisites
• How to install ansible
• Installing Ansible on Ubuntu
• Installing Ansible on RHEL

c) Ansible configuration

• Ansible directory structure
• Ansible configuration file
• Host key checking

a) Password Authentication:

• Creating a user on managed node
• Enabling password authentication on manged nodes
• Testing connectivity with user using password

b) Ansible variables

• default variables
• host variables
• group variables

c) Passwordless Authentication:

• How to create ssh keys
• How to copy ssh keys to managed nodes
• How to test connectivity to managed nodes using ssh keys.

• What are adhoc commands?
• Examples of adhoc commands
• Using custom inventory files
• Using verbosity ( - v)

• What are modules
• What are the default ansible modules?
• Examples of ansible modules
• Available modules

• What is an ansible playbook?
• How to write a playbook
• Examples of playbooks
• Using handlers

• What is an ansible roles?
• How to create ansible roles
• How to use roles in playbooks
• Using import and include modules

• Static inventories
• Dynamic inventory scripts
• Dynamic inventory plugin

• creating encrypted files
• encrypting existing files
• viewing content of encrypted files
• editing an encrypted file
• decrypting encrypted files